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Andalgalá is a city in the west-center of the province of Catamarca, Argentina, located in a valley near the Sierra de Aconquija, 260 km from the provincial capital San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. This is a list of cities in Argentina. For a more exhaustive list of cities in a particular province see the main article linked to in each applicable section For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. Andalgalá is a central department of Catamarca Province in Argentina. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks General phone calls within Argentina In Argentina, changes were made to area codes in 1999 when the telephone network was split up into three different areas with The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least one unique alphanumeric Postal code to each Municipality. ISO 3166-2AR is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Argentina. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca is a city in northwestern Argentina and capital of Catamarca Province, on the Río Valle River at the It has about 14,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC]. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population National Statistics and Censuses Institute ( Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC is the Argentine government agency responsible It is the head town of the department of the same name. The Andalgalá River, which flows nearby, supports a hydroelectric power plant. Hydroelectricity is electricity generated by Hydropower, ie the production of power through use of the gravitational force of falling water
Andalgalá was founded as a fort on 12 July 1658, and only became a city in 1952. Fortifications are Military Constructions and Buildings designed for defense in Warfare Humans have constructed defensive works for Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Its name is of Quechua origin and means either "Lord of the Hare" or "Lord of the High Mountain". Quechua ( Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America.
References
- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.
- Provincia de Catamarca — Official portal.
- Catamarca Huasi — Provincial portal. Details on the Andalgalá Department.
- Catamarca Guía
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