Cafayate Department
Cafayate is a department located in Salta Province, in northwestern Argentina. Situated in the south of the province and with an area of 1,570 km2 it borders the departments of San Carlos, La Viña, Guachipas and the provinces of Tucumán and Catamarca.- Type: department of Argentina with 14,900 residents
- Description: department of Argentina
- Also known as: “Departamento cafayate”, “Departement de Cafayate”, “Département de cafayate”, and “Département De Cafayate”
Cafayate Department
- Location: Salta, Andean Northwest, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-26.0833° or 26° 5′ south
Longitude
-65.8333° or 65° 50′ west
Population
14,900
Elevation
1,857 metres (6,093 feet)
Open location code
575PW588+MM
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Cafayate Department” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կաֆայատե”
- Cebuano: “Cafayete”
- Chinese: “卡法亞特縣”
- Dutch: “Cafayate”
- French: “Cafayate”
- French: “Département de Cafayate”
- Georgian: “კაფაიატეს დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Cafayate”
- Hungarian: “Cafayate megye”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Cafayate”
- Japanese: “カファジャーテ・デパルタメント”
- Mingrelian: “კაფაიატეშ დეპარტამენტი”
- Persian: “بخش کافایات”
- Polish: “Cafayate (departament)”
- Polish: “Cafayate”
- Portuguese: “Cafayate (departamento)”
- Portuguese: “Cafayate”
- Russian: “Кафайяте (департамент)”
- Russian: “Кафайяте”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Cafayate”
- Swedish: “Cafayete”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Cafayate”
- Turkish: “Departamento de Cafayate”
- Ukrainian: “Кафаяте”
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