Mercedes Partido is a partido in the eastern part of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 62,000 inhabitants in an area of 1050 km2, and its capital city is Mercedes, 100 km from Buenos Aires.

Settlements

Population growth

Geography

Mercedes Partido is situated in the Undulated Pampa (Pampa Ondulada), one of the subregions of the Pampas. It owes its name to a series of undulations, or the way the terrain descends gradually to the banks of the Paraná River. It extends north of the Salado River in Buenos Aires Province, from Samborombón Bay to the northeast, to the provinces of Córdoba and Santa Fe.

Climate

As in the rest of the Undulated Pampa, Mercedes's climate is humid-temperate, characterized by: Average temperature and rainfall in the city of Mercedes for the 1983 - 2000 period: