Catamarca

Catamarca is one of the five provinces of the state of Gran Altiplano in Ordis, located in the east of the country. It is the most populous of these, with a total of 21.65 million inhabitants as of the 2015 census. The provincial capital is Puerto Yunque (formerly Puerto Real), which as a part of the Puerto Yunque – Tarancón metropolitan area is the largest conurbation in the country. It borders three of the four other provinces: Averillas to the northwest, Altiplano to the west, and Roblemar to the south. It has the second most coastline of any province in the country, owing mainly to the island department of Isla Golondrinas in the South Neptic to the east. The province is further subdivided into twelve departments.

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Catamarca was founded as a Spanishlandic outpost in 1384 and remained as a province of New Spanishland until [the late 19th century; 1870s?], when the Duke of Catamarca declared independence, proclaiming himself King Rodrigo I. The nation sided with Khornera in the Second Endwar, which led to fighting with neighbouring Averillas, which remained under Spanishlandic control until the spring of 1938. Catamarca remained sovereign until the March Revolution of 1977, in which a coalition of unionised workers and anti-monarchists coordinated with members of the Partido Socialista Altiplanero and Revolutionary Nerotysian Communist Party to dissolve the government and exile the nobility from the country. The state subsequently became the third province to join Gran Altiplano.