Salta's a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. With a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the, it's Argentina's 8th largest city. Overview It's situated in the Lerma Valley, 1,152 meters above sea level, at the foothills of the Andes mountains. The weather's warm and dry, with annual averages of 756 mm of rainfall and an average temperature of 16.4 °C (20.4 °C in summer, 10.8 °C in winter). January and February are the months with gre… (More on Salta)