Chilecito
Chilecito is a city in the Argentine province of La Rioja, and head of the department of Chilecito. Chilecito has about 33,700 residents and an elevation of 1,107 metres.Places of Interest
Highlights: Chirau Mita Botanical Garden and Samay Huasi.
Chilecito-La Mejicana ropeway conveyor
Aerial lift
Chilecito-La Mejicana ropeway conveyor is an aerial lift.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Puntilla and Los Sarmientos.
La Puntilla
Suburb
La Puntilla is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.
Los Sarmientos
Suburb
Los Sarmientos is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.
San Miguel
Suburb
San Miguel is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina. San Miguel is situated 2½ km southeast of Chilecito.
Chilecito
- Type: Town with 33,700 residents
- Description: town in La Rioja Province, Argentina
- Categories: city, municipality of Argentina, and locality
- Location: Departamento de Chilecito, La Rioja Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-29.165° or 29° 9′ 54″ south
Longitude
-67.49536° or 67° 29′ 43″ west
Population
33,700
Elevation
1,107 metres (3,632 feet)
UN/LOCODE
AR CHO
Open location code
572JRGM3+XV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Chilecito” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቺሌሲቶ”
- Arabic: “تشليسيتو”
- Arabic: “تشيليسيتو”
- Armenian: “Չիլեսիտո”
- Asturian: “Chilecito”
- Azerbaijani: “Çilesito”
- Bengali: “চিলেসিটো”
- Cebuano: “Chilecito”
- Chinese: “奇萊西托”
- Czech: “Chilecito”
- Dutch: “Chilecito”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشليسيتو”
- French: “Chilecito”
- German: “Chilecito”
- Greek: “Τσιλεσίτο”
- Hausa: “Chilecito”
- Hebrew: “צ’ילסיטו”
- Hebrew: “צילסיטו”
- Hindi: “चिलेसिटो”
- Hungarian: “Chilecito”
- Indonesian: “Chilecito”
- Italian: “Chilecito”
- Japanese: “チレシート”
- Japanese: “チレシト”
- Javanese: “Chilecito”
- Kazakh: “Чилесито”
- Kirghiz: “Чилесито”
- Lithuanian: “Čilesitas”
- Malagasy: “Chilecito”
- Malay: “Chilecito”
- Oromo: “Chilecito”
- Panjabi: “ਚਿਲੇਸਿਟੋ”
- Persian: “چیلسیتو”
- Polish: “Chilecito”
- Portuguese: “Chilecito”
- Pushto: “چیلیسیتو”
- Russian: “Чилесито”
- Slovak: “Chilecito”
- Somali: “Chilecito”
- South Azerbaijani: “چیلسیتو”
- Spanish: “Chilecito”
- Swahili: “Chilecito”
- Swedish: “Chilecito”
- Tajik: “Чилесито”
- Tatar: “Чилесито”
- Turkish: “Chilecito”
- Ukrainian: “Чилесіто”
- Ukrainian: “Чілесіто”
- Urdu: “چلے سیتو”
- Urdu: “چیلیسیتو”
- Uzbek: “Chilesito”
- “Chilecito”
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Places to explore: Barrio Puquial and Barrio Santo Domingo.
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