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Villa Carlos Paz is a city in the center-north of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, in the south of the Punilla Valley, lying on the western slope of the Sierras Chicas. 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 Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. The Punilla Department is an administrative division of the province of Córdoba, 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 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. 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 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 Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. The Punilla Valley (in Spanish Valle de Punilla) is a broad Fluvial Valley in the province of Córdoba, Argentina It has a population of about 56,000 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 The area of Punilla is a major tourist destination on the national level, and Villa Carlos Paz is in turn the most important city of Punilla, favoured by its closeness (36 km) to the populous Córdoba City, the capital of the province. Córdoba, abbreviated as CBA, is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the
Villa Carlos Paz is located on the southern shore of the San Roque Lake. The San Roque Lake is a Reservoir (artificial lake in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It is crossed by the San Antonio River and the Los Chorrillos Stream.
The city was founded by the rancher Carlos Nicandro Paz in 1914.