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In an article published in 1972, Núñez Miñana presented a research about the measuring of indicators of relative territorial development levels in Argentina. The classification of the provinces that emerged from that working paper was generally accepted and lasted until our days with great validity. The present working paper does not pretend in any way to cast doubts on the results of the mentioned article, but, on the contrary, to verify and confirm the validity of the traditional classification. To that end, a cluster analysis is carried out using, in the first place, the original data of the article. After that, the process is repeated with updated data. We conclude that the traditional classification is not too different from the one that was reached with the cluster analysis. However, more than 30 years later, there have been major changes in the relative reality of the provinces which led to changes in the traditional classification, although not substantial ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]