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Nazareno (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. [1]
Jujuy[xuˈxuj] is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south.
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 largest 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.
The Tren a las Nubes is a tourist train service in Salta Province, Argentina. The service runs along the eastern part of the Salta–Antofagasta railway line of the Belgrano Railway that connects the Argentine Northwest with the border in the Andes mountain range, over 4,220 metres (13,850 ft) above mean sea level, the fifth highest railway in the world. Originally built for economic and social reasons, it is now primarily of interest to tourists as a heritage railway, though cheaper tickets are also available for locals to use the train as transport.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salta is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese, responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Catamarca, Jujuy and Orán as well as the Territorial Prelatures of Cafayate and Humahuaca.
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 690 kHz: 690 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear-channel frequency. CKGM Montreal and XEWW Tijuana share Class A status of 690 kHz.
Iruya is a small town of population 1,070 in northwestern Argentina. It is located in the Salta Province of northwestern Argentina, and is the capital of the Iruya Department.
Acoyte (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.
La Viña (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.
Pueblo Viejo is a small village in the Iruya Department in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. It is located near the village Iruya and is connected through dirt road Ruta Provincial 165-S with Campo Carreras, which is a locality of the village Rodeo Colanzulí.
Colonia Santa Rosa is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.
Coronel Moldes (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.
El Tala is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.
Niépce Glacier is a glacier which joins with Daguerre Glacier and flows into Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay, on the north coast of Kyiv Peninsula, Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Joseph N. Niepce (1765–1833), French physicist, the first man to produce a permanent photographic record, 1816–29, who, with J.L.M. Daguerre, invented the daguerreotype process of photography perfected in 1839.
Chiyayoc is a small village in northwestern Argentina. It is part of the Iruya Department in the Salta Province. The village is located at an elevation of 3100 meters, 4 km east of the village of Salta and 9 km north of the village of Iruya.
Iruya is a department is located in the north of Salta Province in northwest Argentina in the high altitude basin of the Bermejo River. It is one of 23 administrative units in the province.
Polideportivo Delmi, is an arena in Salta, Argentina. It is primarily used for volleyball and basketball. It opened in 1986 and holds 6,000 spectators.
Albertogaudrya is an extinct genus of astrapotherian mammal that lived in present-day Salta, Argentina during the Eocene 48.6 to 37.2 million years ago. Fossils of Albertogaudrya have been found in the Lumbrera and Sarmiento Formations. It is named after French palaeontologist Albert Gaudry.
The Serranía de Hornocal are a range of mountains located 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the city of Humahuaca in the Argentine province of Jujuy. Exposed in the range is the limestone formation called Yacoraite that extends from Salta, Argentina, through the Argentine Quebrada de Humahuaca, and then through the Bolivian Altiplano to Peru.
Coordinates: 22°30′S65°07′W / 22.500°S 65.117°W