El Chalten
El Chaltén is a small mountain village in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is located on the riverside of Rio de las Vueltas, within the Los Glaciares National Park near the base of Cerro Torre and Cerro Fitz Roy spires, both popular for climbing.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
El Chalten
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Lago Argentino Department, Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-49.332° or 49° 19′ 55″ southLongitude
-72.886° or 72° 53′ 10″ westPopulation
1,870Elevation
401 metres (1,316 feet)Open location code
4729M497+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 255706152OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6690180Wikidata ID
Q1323978
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Satellite Map
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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.