Cerrillos | |
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Department | |
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| Coordinates: 24°53′45″S65°29′14″W / 24.89583°S 65.48722°W Coordinates: 24°53′45″S65°29′14″W / 24.89583°S 65.48722°W | |
| Country |  Argentina |
| Province |  Salta |
| Capital | Cerrillos |
| Area | |
| • Total | 640 km2 (250 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 35,579 |
| • Density | 56/km2 (140/sq mi) |
Cerrillos is a department of Salta Province, Argentina, located near Salta city. Its capital is the town of Cerrillos.
Localities and places:
Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy. To the north it borders Bolivia and Paraguay and to the west lies Chile.
Salta is the capital and most populous city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Valle de Lerma Metropolitan Area, which is home to over 50.9% of the population of Salta Province and also includes the municipalities of La Caldera, Vaqueros, Campo Quijano, Rosario de Lerma, Cerrillos, La Merced and San Lorenzo. Salta is the seat of the Capital Department, the most populous department in the province.
Departments form the second level of administrative division, and are subdivided in municipalities. They are extended in all of Argentina except for the Province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the national capital, each of which has different administrative arrangements.
Cerrillos may refer to:
La Merced may refer to:
Cerrillos is a city in the province of Salta, Argentina. It has about 18,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC], and it is the head town of the Cerrillos Department. It is located just 15 km south of the city of Salta, capital of the province.
The Central Northern Railway was the first 1,000 mm railway built by the Argentine State Railway. Its aim was to extend the existing British-owned Central Argentine 5 ft 6 in railway from Córdoba to Tucuman and metre gauge was chosen for economic reasons.
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Dr. J. Armando Caro was an Argentine politician, statesman and ham radio born in Cerrillos, a small town in the northern province of Salta.
Cerrillos River is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Río Cerrillos has its origin in barrio Anón and runs south until it feeds into Bucaná River. Río Cerrillos is commonly known by the locals as Maragüez River, because most of its course runs through Barrio Maragüez. This river is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality. The river has a discharge of 24,000 cubic feet per second, making it the second most affluent river in the municipality after Río Jacaguas.
Capital is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina. It is the department of the provincial capital, the city of Salta, and the most populated one.
Rosario de Lerma is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina. Its main settlements are Rosario de Lerma and Campo Quijano.
The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, is a non-electrified single track railway line that links Argentina and Chile passing through the Andes. It is a 1,000 mmmetre gauge railway with a total length of 941 km, connecting the city of Salta (Argentina) to the one of Antofagasta (Chile), on the Pacific Ocean, passing through the Puna de Atacama and Atacama Desert.
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Gustavo Adolfo Ruberto Sáenz Stiro is an Argentine politician who is currently governor of Salta Province, since 10 December 2019. Previously, from 2015 to 2019, he was intendente (mayor) of the City of Salta, and served from 2009 to 2013 as a member of the Provincial Senate representing the Capital Department.
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