Cities and towns in Argentina San Rafael Province Mendoza Department San Rafael Location 34°36′ S 68°20′ W Elevation 750 m AMSL Population 173,571 Demonym sanrafaelino Phone code +54 2627 CPA base M5600

San Rafael is a city in the southern region of the Mendoza Province, Argentina. 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 Mendoza is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. San Rafael is one of the departments of the Mendoza Province, 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 demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place 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. Mendoza is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. With more than 170,000 inhabitants (2001 census [INDEC]), it is the largest city and the head town of the San Rafael Department. 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

The city is located from 240 km of the provincial capital and 990 km from the federal capital. Mendoza (men'dōzə is the capital city of Mendoza Province, in Argentina. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern

Surrounding area of San Rafael.

References

• Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.
• Municipality of San Rafael — Official website.

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