Cinco Saltos is a city in the Río Negro Alto Valle next to Neuquén city: the apple and pear orchards, the packing sheds and the industrial park are connected by Route 151, which climbs towards Catriel and the oil fields, and by the bridges over the Neuquén river crossed every day by thousands of residents who work in the neighbouring capital. Municipal fines are issued by the city; route fines are issued by the province and coexist on the same plates.

Context and authority

The municipality adheres to the National Traffic Law 24.449 through the provincial law: fines are expressed in fixed units and lapse after two years if minor and five if serious. Municipal fines are ruled on by the municipality’s misdemeanour court; those issued by the province follow their own circuit, described in the Río Negro article.

The municipal misdemeanour court rules on fines issued within the city: speeding on the urban stretch of Route 151 and on the access avenues, red lights at camera-equipped crossings and parking downtown. A defence is filed with the court within the period set by the notice; fines on Route 151 outside the town limits and those of Neuquén city do not belong to Cinco Saltos.

What the API returns for this jurisdiction

In Cinco Saltos the API queries the Cinco Saltos municipal misdemeanour court and, in the same lookup, the other integrated sources of Río Negro; it returns each fine with the authority that issued it:

  • Authority and fine number exactly as each court publishes them.
  • Date, location when reported and description of the infraction.
  • Amount, status and payment conditions published by that court.
  • Downloadable payment slip when one exists.
  • Coverage per source and partial-result flag.

How to check a plate in Cinco Saltos

To check a plate by hand there are three places: the Cinco Saltos municipal portal for municipal fines, the provincial circuit described in the Río Negro article and the ANSV national lookup for fines loaded into the national system. With ten vehicles that is enough; with a hundred, the API walks every integrated source by plate and returns the result split by authority.

What to watch if you run a fleet in Cinco Saltos

A pickup that sleeps in Cinco Saltos and works in Neuquén or the Route 151 oil fields answers to three authorities in a single day; the same plate lookup returns each one’s fines separately, and running it at month end, with the per-source result stored, assigns each fine to the driver and covers the defence in time.

For a packing or fruit logistics company with trucks leaving the orchards for Route 22 at harvest, fines concentrate in a few weeks; a plate lookup at the close of the season and thirty days later avoids discovering them when renewing the technical inspection.

How to integrate

A lookup is a POST with the plate and, optionally, the jurisdictions to include; the initial response accepts the job and the result arrives by status lookup or webhook, because official sources answer in seconds or minutes. The asynchronous APIs guide explains how to retry without duplicating work and the API page details access.

JSONIllustrative example, not a contract.
{
  "plate": "ABC123",
  "jurisdictions": [
    "AR-R-cinco-saltos"
  ]
}

Limits and considerations

  • Fines on national and provincial routes outside the town limits are not municipal; the response names the authority of each.
  • Fixed-unit amounts are converted at the value current at the source; the final amount is set by the authority at the time of payment.
  • A source that does not answer is reported as such, never as an absence of infractions.
  • The API neither pays fines nor handles defences; it delivers information to decide.

Sources and further reading