"The National University of Catamarca, (UNCA) was founded in September 1972. It was the result of an ambitious project feasibility led to the signing of the National Law No. 19,832. In the story of creation combines educational institutions national prestige. Pre-University School ""Fray Mamerto Esquiú"" led to the creation of the ""National Institute of Teacher"" (1943), which opened new horizons for young professionals in northwestern Argentina." In fact, the National Institute of Teacher was the matrix where He conceived the National University of Catamarca. He said secondary education not only in the old provinces in national territories but recently converted into federal provinces: towards the Chaco, Patagonia, southern Mendoza dozens of youths marched northwest trained in Catamarca. . From this institution, in 1968, Professor Federico Country, among others, began working on the creation of the UNCA