Belén Department


Belén is a department of Catamarca Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 12,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Belén, which is located around 1,465 kilometres from Buenos Aires City.

Economy

The mainstay of the economy is farming, but there are also a number of mines in the department, with the extraction of gold, silver and various minerals.