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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").

Key facts

Settlement.name
Tinogasta
Settlement.native_name_lang
es
Settlement.settlement_type
City
Settlement.pushpin_map
Argentina
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location of Tinogasta in Argentina
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Department
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Tinogasta
Settlement.leader_party
Justicialist Party
Settlement.leader_title
Mayor
Settlement.leader_name
Hugo Ávila
Settlement.unit_pref
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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