Salta South Africa (2016.) Top football clubs, including Boca Juniors, River Plate and Racing, have played friendly games in Salta in summer, off-season matches. The city was used as a stage on the route of the 2014 and 2016 Dakar Rally. Salta is governed by a city council of 21 members. Following the elections of November 2013 the Workers' Party has 9 seats, the Justicialist Party has 6 seats, and there are 6 others. Salta Salta () is a city located in the Lerma Valley, at 1,152 metres (3780 feet) above sea level in the northwest part of Argentina. It is
Salta–Antofagasta railway ("train to the clouds"), running between Salta and La Polvorilla. Nowadays, apart from some suburban trains running from Salta to Campo Quijano, the "Tren a las Nubes" is the only passenger train serving the line, after the cancellation of the "Tren Mixto" Salta-Socompa, that once linked Socompa with Tucumán and Buenos Aires (Retiro Station), via Córdoba and Rosario. The Chilean part of the line, also served only by freight trains, was the site of a proposed commuter rail line on the route running through Antofagasta. Salta–Antofagasta railway The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, is a non-electrified single track railway line