Luzamontaña
Luzamontaña | |||||||
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 Location of Luzamontaña in Araucaria | |||||||
| Country | Balisca | ||||||
| Community | Araucaria | ||||||
| Before confederation | Maroon Confederacy | ||||||
| Confederalization into Balisca | 22 October 1883 | ||||||
| Capital and largest city | Jatiel | ||||||
| Administration | 374 cantons, and 5,563 communes | ||||||
| Common languages | Mozarabic, Baliscano, Maroniko and Kurupirangüe | ||||||
| Demonym(s) | Luzamontaní (masculine) Luzamontanía (feminine) | ||||||
| Legislature | Council of Luzamontaña | ||||||
| National representation | |||||||
| 33 seats (of 736) | |||||||
| Area | |||||||
• Total | 7,297 km2 (2,817 sq mi) (40th) | ||||||
| Population | |||||||
• December 2023 estimate | 6,478,217 (22nd) | ||||||
• 2020 census | 6,203,827 | ||||||
• Density | 887.79/km2 (2,299.4/sq mi) (2nd) | ||||||
| HDI (2024) |  0.906very high · 4th | ||||||
| Time zone | UTC-3 (BST) | ||||||
| Postal abbreviation | LZM | ||||||
| ISO 3166 code | BL-LM | ||||||
| Symbols | |||||||
| Flower | Copihue (Lapageria) | ||||||
| Mammal | Cimarrón Luzamontano | ||||||
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| Internet TLD | .lzm | ||||||
| Website | consejo.lzm.bl | ||||||
Luzamontaña (meaning "mountain of light"; Baliscano: Luzamontanya) is one of the eight regions that make up the Araucarian community, within the Baliscan Confederation. With an area of 7,297 km2 (2,817 sq mi) it is the fourth largest region within Araucaria, while being the 5th smallest region in Balisca as a whole. It is bordered to north by Hesperia's Piedmont, the east by the Castejón Metropolis and the region of Tukupi, and to the south by Vitacura. The region's administrative seat and largest city is Jatiel. The region's name stems from the widespread presence of fireflies observed by early settlers.
Evidence of Indigenous habitation in the area dates from at least 19,000 years ago and successive waves of arrivals led to one of the most densely populated areas of pre-European Anhangá. The arrival of Iberian explorers from the early 16th to the mid-18th centuries did not establish settlements in what is now northern Araucaria.
Luzamontaña is separated from Hesperia by the Rivagüero, a strait that connects Salto Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. As the maritime gateway to the Castejón Metropolis and the wider Concordia area, Botánica is a major economic center, transportation hub, and tourist destination in Balisca, with 60% of the region's land area designated as protected conservation areas. Since the 1990s, Luzamontaña has seen substantial population and economic growth as a result of continued socioeconomic decentralization of the Concordia conurbation.
