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Rio Gallegos

Rio Gallegos is a town in southern . There may not be much to see in town but it can be a base for exploring the wider area. The town serves as the provincial capital of .
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  • Type: City with 116,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest settlement of the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz in Argentina
  • Also known as: “Puerto Gallegos”, “Puerto Río Gallegos”, “Río Gallegos”, and “Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roberto Galian Railway Museum and Mausoleum of Néstor Kirchner.

Museum
Photo: Santiago matamoro, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tomb
Photo: Nicolás Giorgetti, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is located at Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, . It was built in 2011, one year after his death and state funeral. It houses the remains of Kirchner and his parents; Ana María Ostoic died in 2013.

Rio Gallegos

Latitude
-51.6215° or 51° 37′ 18″ south
Longitude
-69.215° or 69° 12′ 54″ west
Population
116,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
RGL
United Nations Location Code
AR RGL
Open location code
37WG9QHM+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198416899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3838859
Wiki­data ID
Q44242
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Rio Gallegos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريو غاليغوس سانتا كروز”
  • Arabic: “ريو غاليغوس، سانتا كروز”
  • Armenian: “Ռիո Գալյեգոս”
  • Asturian: “Río Gallegos”
  • Basque: “Rio Gallegos”
  • Basque: “Río Gallegos”
  • Bengali: “রিও গ্যায়েগোস”
  • Breton: “Río Gallegos”
  • Bulgarian: “Рио Галегос”
  • Catalan: “Río Gallegos”
  • Cebuano: “Río Gallegos (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Chinese: “里奥加耶戈斯”
  • Czech: “Río Gallegos”
  • Danish: “Río Gallegos”
  • Dutch: “Río Gallegos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريو جاليجوس”
  • Esperanto: “Río Gallegos”
  • Finnish: “Río Gallegos”
  • French: “Río Gallegos”
  • Galician: “Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz”
  • Galician: “Río Gallegos”
  • Georgian: “რიო-გალიეგოსი”
  • German: “Río Gallegos”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Γαλιέγος”
  • Greek: “Ρίο Γκαγιέγκος”
  • Guarani: “Río Gallegos”
  • Gujarati: “રીયો ગેલેગોસ”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גז’גוס”
  • Hebrew: “ריו גזגוס”
  • Hindi: “रियो गैलेगोस”
  • Hungarian: “Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz”
  • Indonesian: “Río Gallegos”
  • Irish: “Río Gallegos”
  • Italian: “Río Gallegos”
  • Japanese: “リオ・ガジェゴス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Río Gallegos”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಯೊ ಗ್ಯಾಲ್ಗೊಸ್”
  • Korean: “리오가예고스”
  • Latvian: “Riogaljegosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Rio Galjegosas”
  • Malagasy: “Río Gallegos”
  • Malay: “Rio Gallegos”
  • Marathi: “रिओ गॅलेगॉस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Río Gallegos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Río Gallegos”
  • Norwegian: “Río Gallegos”
  • Ossetian: “Рио-Гальегос”
  • Persian: “ریوگالگوس”
  • Polish: “Río Gallegos”
  • Portuguese: “Gallegos”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Gallegos”
  • Portuguese: “Río Gallegos”
  • Russian: “Рио-Гальегос”
  • Scots: “Río Gallegos”
  • Serbian: “Рио Гаљегос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Río Gallegos”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ගලාගොස්, ආර්ජන්ටිනාව”
  • Sinhala: “රියෝ ගලාගොස්”
  • Slovak: “Río Gallegos”
  • Slovenian: “Río Gallegos”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ریوقالقوس”
  • Spanish: “Rio Gallegos”
  • Spanish: “Río Gallegos”
  • Swedish: “Río Gallegos”
  • Talysh: “Rio Gallegos”
  • Tamil: “ரியோ கல்லெகோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Рио-Гальегос”
  • Telugu: “రియో గాలెగోస్”
  • Thai: “ริโอกาเยโกส”
  • Turkish: “Río Gallegos”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-Гальєгос”
  • Urdu: “ریو گالیگوس، سانتا کروز”
  • Vietnamese: “Rio Gallegos”
  • Volapük: “Río Gallegos (zif)”
  • Volapük: “Río Gallegos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rio Gallegos”
  • Welsh: “Río Gallegos”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریو گالیگوس”
  • “Río Gallegos”

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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 “Rio Gallegos”. Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.