Argentina
Chaco
San Fernando Department

Resistencia

Resistencia is a city in . It is known as City of Sculptures, with more than 600 sculptures across the city. Bienal Internacional de Esculturas is the main attraction, in a week you can see how artists from all over the world make sculptures.
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  • Type: City with 386,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Chaco Province, Argentina
  • Also known as: “Resistencia, Chaco” and “Sculptures City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo Ichoalay and Resistencia train station.

Museum
Photo: Pertile, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Railway station
Photo: Pertile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Church
Photo: Fernandopascullo, Public domain.
The St. Ferdinand the King Cathedral, also called is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Resistencia, . It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Resistencia, and the head of an ecclesiastical province which covers the Argentine provinces of and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Liguria.

Neighborhood
is a village and municipality in in northern .

Resistencia

Latitude
-27.4511° or 27° 27′ 4″ south
Longitude
-58.9865° or 58° 59′ 12″ west
Population
386,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
IATA airport code
RES
United Nations Location Code
AR RES
Open location code
5843G2X7+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1617730500
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3429577
Wiki­data ID
Q44206
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Resistencia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريسيستينسيا”
  • Armenian: “Ռեսիստենսիա”
  • Asturian: “Resistencia”
  • Aymara: “Resistencia”
  • Basque: “Resistencia”
  • Belarusian: “Рэсістэнсія”
  • Bengali: “রেসিস্তেন্সিয়া”
  • Breton: “Resistencia”
  • Bulgarian: “Ресистенсия”
  • Catalan: “Resistencia”
  • Cebuano: “Resistencia”
  • Chinese: “雷西斯滕西亚”
  • Chinese: “雷西斯滕西亞”
  • Croatian: “Resistancia”
  • Croatian: “Resistencia”
  • Czech: “Resistencia”
  • Danish: “Resistencia”
  • Dutch: “Resistencia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريسيستينسيا”
  • Esperanto: “Resistencia”
  • Finnish: “Resistencia”
  • French: “Resistencia”
  • Galician: “Resistencia, Chaco”
  • Galician: “Resistencia”
  • Georgian: “რესისტენსია”
  • German: “Resistencia”
  • Greek: “Ρεσιστένσια”
  • Greek: “Ρεσιστέντσια”
  • Gujarati: “રેઝિસ્ટેન્સિયા”
  • Hebrew: “רסיסטנסיה”
  • Hindi: “रेसिस्तेंसिया”
  • Hungarian: “Resistencia”
  • Indonesian: “Resistencia, Chaco”
  • Indonesian: “Resistencia”
  • Irish: “Resistencia”
  • Italian: “Città Nazionale delle Sculture”
  • Italian: “Resistencia”
  • Japanese: “レシステンシア”
  • Kannada: “ರೆಸಿಸ್ಟೆನ್ಸಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “레시스텐시아”
  • Latin: “Resistentia”
  • Latvian: “Resistensija”
  • Lithuanian: “Resistensija”
  • Malagasy: “Resistencia”
  • Malay: “Resistencia”
  • Marathi: “रेसिस्टेन्सिया”
  • Mirandese: “Resistencia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Resistencia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Resistencia”
  • Norwegian: “Resistencia”
  • Ossetian: “Ресистенси”
  • Persian: “رزیستنسیا”
  • Polish: “Resistencia”
  • Portuguese: “Resistencia”
  • Portuguese: “Resistência”
  • Quechua: “Resistencia”
  • Russian: “Ресистенсия”
  • Samogitian: “Resistensėjė”
  • Scots: “Resistencia”
  • Serbian: “Ресистенсија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Resistancia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Resistencia”
  • Sinhala: “රෙසිස් ටෙන්සියා”
  • Sinhala: “රෙසිස්ටෙන්සියා, ආර්ජන්ටිනාව”
  • Slovak: “Resistencia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رزیستنسیا”
  • Spanish: “Capital Nacional de las Esculturas”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Resistencia”
  • Spanish: “Resistencia”
  • Swedish: “Resistencia, Chaco”
  • Swedish: “Resistencia”
  • Tamil: “ரெஸிஸ்டென்சியா”
  • Tatar: “Ресистенсия”
  • Telugu: “రెసిస్టెన్సియా”
  • Thai: “เรซิสเตนเซีย”
  • Turkish: “Resistencia”
  • Ukrainian: “Ресістенсія”
  • Urdu: “رزیستنسیا، چاکو”
  • Venetian: “Resistencia”
  • Vietnamese: “Resistencia, Chaco”
  • Vietnamese: “Resistencia”
  • Volapük: “Resistencia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Resistencia”
  • Welsh: “Resistencia”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریسیستینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “雷西斯滕西亚”
  • “Resistencia”
  • “Resistensėjė”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Resistencia”. Photo: Carlos Berzzi, CC BY-SA 3.0.