INDUSTRY

➤ 3 Wine-producing departments (Tinogasta, Santa María and Pomán)
➤ 4 Olive-growing departments (Tinogasta, Capayán, Pomán and Belén).
➤ 5 Walnut-growing departments (Tinogasta, Capayán, Belén, Ambato, Paclín).
➤ 3 spice-growing departments (Santa María, Belén and Tinogasta)
➤ 11 sweet departments (Tinogasta, Belén, Santa María, Pomán, Andalgalá, Capayán,
Ambato, Paclín, Valle Viejo, Fray Mamerto Esquiú and Ancasti).
➤ 16 departments of identity food products (all the departments of the province).

OLIVE SECTOR
➧ Catamarca is the third largest olive-growing province in the country, after La Rioja and Mendoza, with 21% of the national surface.
➧ Approximately 80% of the area is used for olive oil production. The main oil variety in the province is Arbequina, although in recent years the Coratina variety (with a more intense and spicy flavor) has begun to adapt well, with higher yields.
➧ Among the canning varieties, the main one is Manzanilla. Most of the primary production of olives for canning is processed in Arauco (La Rioja).
➧ The main destination of industrial production is the foreign market. Sales are usually made in bulk from industrial establishments.
➧ An important link are the intermediary agents, such as Molinos Río de la Plata or AGD (Aceitera General Deheza), who buy the oil production in bulk and then fraction it and sell it, both in the domestic and foreign markets, under their own brands.

➧ The area planted with vines in the province covers approximately 2.5 thousand hectares (1.2% of the national total). Among the varieties grown, rosé grapes predominate, accounting for 59% of the total, while red grapes for winemaking represent 29% of the area. The remaining 12% corresponds to white varieties.
➧ Winegrowing is mainly located in the western departments where there are two production areas: the Tinogasta-Fiambalá axis and the Valles Calchaquíes region in Santa María, with greater development in the last twenty years. To a lesser extent, there are the departments of Andalgalá, Pomán and Belén.
➧ The lack of rainfall in the producing areas requires the application of supplementary irrigation.

➧ Catamarca is the second province with walnut cultivation with 25.89% of the national area. According to the National Survey of Nuts (2018), the province registered 4 thousand hectares.
➧ In the NOA region, the provinces with walnut crops are Catamarca, La Rioja, Salta and Tucumán. Catamarca is positioned as the first producer in the region with 53.32% of the cultivated area.
➧ Approximately 50% of the production corresponds to criollo varieties and the rest to Californian origin. Similarly, half of the production is marketed with shell and the rest without shell.
➧ The main production area is located in the departments of Belén (33.22% of the planted area); Ambato (26%), where most of the large farms are located, and Pomán (23%).

At only 6km. away from the city of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, this industrial park is situated at an unbeatable location of the region, due to its direct existence to national roads that connect it with each of its bordering provinces: La Rioja, Tucumán, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero, as well as the bi-oceanic corridor “Paso de San Francisco” that links Catamarca to Copiapó (Chile), including the 100% paved Argentine stretch.

Its activities started in 1977 and it currently has 39 enterprises.