Tinogasta
Sign in to saveTinogasta () is a city in the west of the , on the right-hand shore of the Abaucán River, about 280 km from the provincial capital San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. It had about 11,500 inhabitants at the . It is the head town of the department of the same name. The name of the city comes from the Kakana words tino ("meeting") and gasta ("town").
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tinogasta
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- es
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
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- Argentina
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- Location of Tinogasta in Argentina
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- Country
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tinogasta
- Settlement.leader_party
- Justicialist Party
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Hugo Ávila
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- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1,500
- Settlement.population_total
- 11485
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010 census
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone1
- ART
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Tinogasta () is a city in the west of the , on the right-hand shore of the Abaucán River, about 280 km from the provincial capital San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. It had about 11,500 inhabitants at the . It is the head town of the department of the same name. The name of the city comes from the Kakana words tino ("meeting") and gasta ("town").
Tinogasta is a tourist site. It has access to the mountains for adventure tourism, hot springs, and archaeological museums. The basis of the local economy is agriculture, focused on vine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tinogasta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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