Official website (https://tolhuin.gob.ar/)
Tolhuin
Sign in to saveTolhuin is a town in the province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. It has 9,879 inhabitants as per the 2022 census. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Fagnano, in the southern part of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. It is the third largest settlement on the Argentine side of Tierra del Fuego after Ushuaia and Río Grande.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tolhuin
- Region
- Tierra del Fuego
- Country
- Argentina
- Population
- 3,000
- Timezone
- America/Argentina/Ushuaia
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tolhuin
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- es
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Centre Tolhuin.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- COA_Tolhuin.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera de la Ciudad de Tolhuin.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Argentina
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Tolhuin in Argentina
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tolhuin
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 54
- Settlement.population_total
- 9879
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 183
- Settlement.timezone1
- ART
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality
- Demonym
- tolhuinense
- Country
- Argentina
- Located in
- Tolhuin Department
- Area
- 54
- Elevation
- 84
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Body of water
- Lake Fagnano
- Capital of
- Tolhuin Department
- Official website
- tolhuin.gob.ar
- Image
- Centre Tolhuin.jpg
- Dialing code
- 02901
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- Commons category
- Tolhuin
- inception
- 1972-00-00
- postal code
- V9412
- different from
- kaiken
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tolhuin is a town in the province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. It has 9,879 inhabitants as per the 2022 census. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Fagnano, in the southern part of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. It is the third largest settlement on the Argentine side of Tierra del Fuego after Ushuaia and Río Grande.
Tolhuin was founded on October 9, 1972. The word means "like a heart" in Selkʼnam language. It lies on National Route 3, and is the only town between the cities of Ushuaia (about 103 kilometres to the south) and Río Grande (about 133 kilometres to the north) on this motorway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tolhuin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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