El Chalten

El Chaltén is a small mountain village in , Argentina. It is located on the riverside of Rio de las Vueltas, within the near the base of and Cerro Fitz Roy spires, both popular for climbing.
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  • Type: Village with 1,870 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Santa Cruz, Argentina
  • Also known as: El Chaltén

Places of Interest

Highlights include Capilla de los Escaladores.

Church
is a church.

El Chalten

Latitude
-49.332° or 49° 19′ 55″ south
Longitude
-72.886° or 72° 53′ 10″ west
Population
1,870
Elevation
401 metres (1,316 feet)
Open location code
4729M497+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255706152
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6690180
Wiki­data ID
Q1323978
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“El Chalten” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: إل تشالتين
  • Cebuano: El Chaltén
  • Czech: El Chaltén
  • Dutch: El Chalten
  • Dutch: El Chaltén
  • Finnish: El Chaltén
  • French: El Chalten
  • French: El Chaltén
  • German: El Chalten
  • German: El Chaltén
  • Guarani: El Chaltén
  • Hebrew: אל צ’לטן
  • Italian: Chalten
  • Italian: El chalten
  • Italian: El Chaltén
  • Lithuanian: El Čaltenas
  • Lithuanian: El Chalten
  • Ossetian: Эль-Чалтен
  • Persian: ال چالتن
  • Polish: El Chaltén
  • Portuguese: El chaltén
  • Portuguese: El Chaltén
  • Romanian: El Chaltén
  • Russian: Эль Чалтен
  • Russian: Эль-Чалтен
  • Slovenian: El Chaltén
  • Spanish: El Chalten
  • Spanish: El Chaltén
  • Swedish: El Chaltén
  • Ukrainian: Ель-Чальтен

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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 “El Chalten”. Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.