Municipal territory

They were first administered by the cabildo, then by the provincial treasury and, from 1857, by the newly formed municipality.

The urban ejido system is in line with the traditional concept of municipality, in charge of city affairs and with a direct management with own neighbors.

With respect to the dispersed rural population or small towns, the system of neighboring ejidos has the possibility of integrating and attending to them from the municipal level.

On the other hand, these systems subordinate these localities even when they have reached the conditions to become a municipality.

In general, the departments group several local governments, except in the provinces of Buenos Aires and the Cuyo provinces of Mendoza, San Juan and La Rioja, where the department (or partido) coincides with the municipal district.