Esquel

Esquel is a town in the northwest of in . It is located in , of which it is the government seat.
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  • Type: Town with 37,000 residents
  • Description: city in Argentina
  • Also known as: “Esquel, Argentina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Esquel train station and La Trochita.

Railway station
Photo: Gonce, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Memorial
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, in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm narrow gauge railway in , using steam locomotives. The nickname means literally "The little gauge" though it is sometimes translated as "The Little Narrow…

Esquel

Latitude
-42.9173° or 42° 55′ 2″ south
Longitude
-71.3217° or 71° 19′ 18″ west
Population
37,000
Elevation
577 metres (1,893 feet)
IATA airport code
EQS
United Nations Location Code
AR EQS
Open location code
479C3MMH+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243189524
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3855974
Wiki­data ID
Q81656
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Satellite Map

Discover Esquel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Esquel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آيسكيول”
  • Asturian: “Esquel”
  • Breton: “Esquel”
  • Catalan: “Esquel”
  • Cebuano: “Esquel”
  • Chinese: “埃斯克爾”
  • Danish: “Esquel”
  • Dutch: “Esquel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آيسكيول”
  • French: “Esquel”
  • German: “Esquel”
  • Greek: “Εσκέλ”
  • Hebrew: “אסקל”
  • Hungarian: “Esquel”
  • Indonesian: “Esquel, Argentina”
  • Italian: “Esquel”
  • Japanese: “エスケル”
  • Korean: “에스켈”
  • Lithuanian: “Eskelis”
  • Malay: “Esquel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Esquel”
  • Persian: “اسکل، آرژانتین”
  • Polish: “Esquel”
  • Portuguese: “Esquel”
  • Russian: “Эскель”
  • Spanish: “Esquel”
  • Swedish: “Esquel”
  • Turkish: “Esquel”
  • Ukrainian: “Ескель”
  • Urdu: “ایسکوئیل، ارجنٹائن”
  • Welsh: “Esquel”

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