Argentina
Santa Cruz Province
Güer Aike Department

Yacimientos Río Turbio

Río Turbio is a town and municipality in the of the in southern . It was founded in 1942 as a consequence of the coal mining in the area.
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  • Type: Town with 11,700 residents
  • Description: town in Güer Aike, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
  • Also known as: “Rio Turbio”, “Río Turbio”, and “Río Turbio, Santa Cruz Province”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Julia Dufour and 28 de Noviembre.

Village
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is a village and municipality in Santa Cruz Province in southern . The name of the town pays homage to , Argentine pioneer in Patagonia and wife of the Argentine explorer Luis Piedrabuena. is situated 7 km east of Yacimientos Río Turbio.

Village
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, written out as Veintiocho de Noviembre, is a town in southwestern Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It had 9,478 inhabitants at the 2022 Census, most of whom are of Argentinian and Italian origin, and is located 270 km west of Río Gallegos and 13 km south of Río Turbio. is situated 10 km southeast of Yacimientos Río Turbio.

Yacimientos Río Turbio

Latitude
-51.53694° or 51° 32′ 13″ south
Longitude
-72.33604° or 72° 20′ 10″ west
Population
11,700
Elevation
324 metres (1,063 feet)
IATA airport code
RYO
United Nations Location Code
AR RYO
Open location code
37W9FM77+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198436886
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8521759
Wiki­data ID
Q2608901
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Yacimientos Río Turbio” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Río Turbio”
  • Basque: “Río Turbio (hiria)”
  • Basque: “Río Turbio”
  • Cebuano: “Río Turbio”
  • Chinese: “特爾比奧河鎮”
  • Czech: “Río Turbio”
  • Czech: “Yacimientos Río Turbio”
  • Dutch: “Río Turbio”
  • French: “Río Turbio”
  • German: “Río Turbio”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Τούρβιο”
  • Italian: “Río Turbio”
  • Japanese: “リオ・トゥルビオ”
  • Lithuanian: “Jasimientos Rio Turbijo”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio Turbijas”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio Turbio”
  • Persian: “ریو توربیو”
  • Polish: “Río Turbio”
  • Portuguese: “Río Turbio”
  • Russian: “Рио-Турбио”
  • Scots: “Río Turbio”
  • Slovak: “Río Turbio”
  • Spanish: “Rio Turbio”
  • Spanish: “Río Turbio”
  • Spanish: “Yacimientos Rio Turbio”
  • Spanish: “Yacimientos Río Turbio”
  • Swedish: “Río Turbio”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-Турбіо”
  • Ukrainian: “Ясім’єнтос-Ріо-Турбіо”

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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 “Yacimientos Río Turbio”. Photo: Christer T Johansson, CC BY 3.0.