Argentina (AR) — civil law.

Nothing on this page describes United States practice. There is no certificate sold to an investor, no administrative sale, and no post-sale redemption window in Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.

Departamento judicial vs departamento administrativo

Argentina partitions its territory twice, differently, and auction questions follow the judicial partition.

	Administrative	Judicial
Unit	Provincia → departamento (in most provinces) or partido (Buenos Aires) → municipio	Provincia → departamento judicial / circunscripción judicial
Set by	Provincial constitution and law	Provincial ley orgánica del poder judicial
Determines	Local government, tasas, services	Which court, which portal, which boletín, which colegio de martilleros

The illustrative case

Buenos Aires Province has 135 partidos but 20 departamentos judiciales (created by Ley 5827 art. 5 as amended by Ley 13.859; nineteen reported functioning). A single departamento judicial covers many partidos, and the boundaries are not a simple aggregation.

So the question “where do I find the auction listing for a property in this town?” is answered by the judicial map, not the municipal one. See index.

There is no county

Argentina has no county tier at any level.

Not as a translation, not as an approximation. The administrative departamento/ partido is a government unit — it levies tasas, it does not keep land records, it does not run courts, and it does not hold auction money. Land records are provincial (Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble), valuation is provincial (Catastro), and auctions are judicial. There is no office in Argentina that combines those functions the way a US county office does.

Why the wiki is built this way

The local layer of this wiki is departamentos-judiciales/, not municipios/, because that is the partition that answers operational questions. municipios/ exists as a separate, smaller layer for the tasas enforcement track, which genuinely is municipal. See content-map.