Argentina
La Rioja Province
Departamento de Chilecito

Chilecito

Chilecito is a city in the province of La Rioja, and head of the department of Chilecito. Chilecito has about 33,700 residents and an elevation of 1,107 metres.
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Photo: Roberto Fiadone, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chirau Mita Botanical Garden and Samay Huasi.

Museum
Photo: Roberto Fiadone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chirau Mita is a botanical garden in Argentina, which brings together more than 1,200 species of cacti from all over the world, as well as various genera of trees and species from dry environments, such as aloe vera and the agave.

Museum
Photo: Patricio.lorente, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a historic property in functioning as both a vacation retreat, as well as a museum.

Aerial lift
Photo: rodoluca, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an aerial lift.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Puntilla and Los Sarmientos.

Suburb
is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern .

Suburb
is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern .

Suburb
is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern . is situated 2½ km southeast of Chilecito.

Chilecito

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)
United Nations Location Code
AR CHO
Open location code
572JRGM3+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198443869
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3861445
Wiki­data ID
Q1072833
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Satellite Map

Discover Chilecito from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Chilecito” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشليسيتو”
  • Armenian: “Չիլեսիտո”
  • Asturian: “Chilecito”
  • Cebuano: “Chilecito”
  • Chinese: “奇萊西托”
  • Czech: “Chilecito”
  • Dutch: “Chilecito”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشليسيتو”
  • French: “Chilecito”
  • German: “Chilecito”
  • Greek: “Τσιλεσίτο”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ילסיטו”
  • Hebrew: “צילסיטו”
  • Hungarian: “Chilecito”
  • Italian: “Chilecito”
  • Japanese: “チレシト”
  • Lithuanian: “Chilecito”
  • Lithuanian: “Čilesitas”
  • Malagasy: “Chilecito”
  • Persian: “چیلسیتو”
  • Polish: “Chilecito”
  • Portuguese: “Chilecito”
  • Russian: “Чилесито”
  • Slovak: “Chilecito”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چیلسیتو”
  • Spanish: “Chilecito”
  • Swedish: “Chilecito”
  • Turkish: “Chilecito”
  • Ukrainian: “Чилесіто”
  • Ukrainian: “Чілесіто”
  • “Chilecito”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chilecito”. Photo: Roberto Fiadone, CC BY-SA 3.0.