El Calafate

El Calafate, also called Calafate, is a city in the province of Santa Cruz, in . It is located on the southern border of Lago Argentino, in the southwest part of the province.
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  • Type: Town with 22,800 residents
  • Description: town in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
  • Also known as: Caserío de Calafates”, “Lago Argentino”, and “Pueblo Calafate

El Calafate

Latitude
-50.3387° or 50° 20′ 20″ south
Longitude
-72.2737° or 72° 16′ 25″ west
Population
22,800
Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)
IATA airport code
FTE
United Nations Location Code
AR ING
Open location code
37X9MP6G+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198447598
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3858677
Wiki­data ID
Q81561
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“El Calafate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: إل كالافاتي
  • Arabic: الكالافات
  • Asturian: El Calafate
  • Bengali: এল ক্যালাফেট
  • Catalan: El Calafate
  • Cebuano: El Calafate
  • Chinese: 埃尔卡拉法特
  • Czech: El Calafate
  • Danish: El Calafate
  • Dutch: El Calafate
  • Egyptian Arabic: ال كالافاتى
  • Esperanto: El Calafate
  • Finnish: El Calafate
  • French: El Calafate
  • Georgian: ელ-კალაფატე
  • German: El Calafate
  • Greek: Ελ Καλαφάτε
  • Guarani: El Calafate
  • Gujarati: એલ કેલેફેટ
  • Hebrew: אל קלפטה
  • Hindi: एल कैलाफेट
  • Indonesian: El Calafate
  • Irish: El Calafate
  • Italian: El Calafate
  • Japanese: エル・カラファーテ
  • Japanese: エル・カラファテ
  • Japanese: カラファテ
  • Kannada: ಎಲ್ ಕ್ಯಾಲಫೇಟ್
  • Korean: 엘카라파테
  • Korean: 엘칼라파테
  • Latvian: Elkalafate
  • Lithuanian: El Kalafatė
  • Malay: El Calafate
  • Marathi: एल कल्लाफेट
  • Norwegian Bokmål: El Calafate
  • Norwegian: El Calafate
  • Occitan (post 1500): El Calafate
  • Persian: ال کالافاته
  • Piemontese: El Calafate
  • Polish: El Calafate
  • Portuguese: El Calafate
  • Russian: Эль Калафате
  • Russian: Эль-Калафате
  • Serbo-Croatian: El Calafate
  • Silesian: El Calafate
  • Sinhala: එල් කලෆාටේ
  • Slovak: El Calafate
  • Slovenian: El Calafate
  • Spanish: Calafate
  • Spanish: El Calafate
  • Swedish: El Calafate
  • Tamil: எல் காலபாடே
  • Telugu: ఎల్ కలేఫేట్
  • Thai: เอล คาลาฟาเต้
  • Turkish: El Calafate
  • Ukrainian: Ель-Калафате
  • Urdu: ال کالافاتی
  • Vietnamese: El Calafate

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