Argentina's capital to be moved from Buenos Aires?
Argentina's president Cristina Kirchner has said that the country should discuss moving the capital from Buenos Aires to Santiago del Estero, a city 600 miles north west.
New York Times reports that Mrs Kirchner said: "Sometimes we should start thinking of a new territorial design, because the world has changed."
She was visiting the country's oldest town Santiago del Estero when she raised the idea.
"We should start rethinking where to place our federal capital, perhaps more in the centre of the country – and even here, in Santiago del Estero, the Mother of Argentine cities," she said.
Buenos Aires is seen as being remote from the rest of the country.
It is not the first time it has been suggested that the capital city should move. According to the Daily Telegraph, in the 1850s, Argentine writer Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, said it should be moved to the island of Martin Garcia.
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