Who travels Argentina by the center-west, entering the area between parallels 32 ° and 38 ° it is in the territory belonging to the province of Mendoza. To the west, a vast area framed mountain range: the Cordillera de los Andes. From there they go down the icy crystalline streams that man has turned into canals that irrigate crops.
    Mendoza province is a fruit par excellence, with a semi-arid continental climate, characterized by its low level of summer rainfall regime, high heliophany, high temperature range and excellent mountain water. Nationwide is the largest producer of prunes and olives for industry. The eastern part of the province, which covers the Departments of San Martin, Rivadavia, Junín, Santa Rosa and La Paz has nearly 50% of production to prune industry. In this area there are 90,000ha. of irrigated crops: 70,000ha. with vine, 18,100 ha with fruit and the rest hortalizas.El pastures and mild climate and sunshine allow a degree of optimum maturity in all variadades fruit.
    Mendoza late nineteenth century housed a plurality of settlers from around the world. Many Spanish, Italian, French, German, English, among others, contributed to the high genetic diversity of the current population.