Salta Province is located in the northwest of the country near the Tropic of Capricorn, and boasts amazing landscapes of mountains, rivers and valleys, with a wide range of climates due to the variation in altitude across the province. To the north it borders Bolivia and Paraguay and to the west lies Chile. Before the Spanish conquest, numerous native peoples lived in the valleys here, so consequently the cultural mix of peoples in this region is more varied than further south, and the province is home to some of Argentina's oldest cultural traditions.