Andean Northwest
Salta
Capital Department

Salta

Salta is the capital of the , up in the mountains in northern . Salta is typically visited as a launching point for the nature and small towns in the region, but has its own charms and sights worth seeing too.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of High Altitude Archaeology and Salta Cathedral.

Museum
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The is an archaeology museum located in the historical center of Salta, Argentina, which conserves and exhibits collections related to the Capacocha child sacrifice ceremonies performed by the Inca in the high peaks of the , mainly the Children of Llullaillaco mummies discovered in 1999 at the top of the volcano.

Church
Photo: Marianocecowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Salta, Argentina. The church serves as the seat and the metropolitan cathedral of the Archbishop of Salta.

Railway station
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Salta

Latitude
-24.7893° or 24° 47′ 22″ south
Longitude
-65.4103° or 65° 24′ 37″ west
Population
535,000
Elevation
1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
IATA airport code
SLA
United Nations Location Code
AR SLA
Open location code
577P6H6Q+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198418541
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3838233
Wiki­data ID
Q36307
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Salta” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Salta”
  • Arabic: “سالتا”
  • Armenian: “Սալտա”
  • Asturian: “Salta”
  • Basque: “Salta”
  • Belarusian: “Сальта”
  • Bengali: “সাল্টা”
  • Breton: “Salta”
  • Bulgarian: “Салта”
  • Catalan: “Salta”
  • Cebuano: “Salta (kapital sa lalawigan sa Arhentina)”
  • Cebuano: “Salta”
  • Chinese: “萨尔塔”
  • Chinese: “薩爾塔”
  • Czech: “Salta”
  • Danish: “Salta”
  • Dutch: “Salta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالتا”
  • Esperanto: “Saltaurbo”
  • Fijian: “Salta”
  • Finnish: “Salta”
  • French: “Salta”
  • Galician: “Salta”
  • Georgian: “სალტა”
  • German: “Salta”
  • Greek: “Σάλτα”
  • Gujarati: “સલ્ટા”
  • Hausa: “Salta”
  • Hebrew: “סלטה”
  • Hindi: “साल्टा”
  • Hungarian: “Salta”
  • Ido: “Salta”
  • Indonesian: “Salta”
  • Irish: “Salta”
  • Italian: “Salta”
  • Japanese: “サルタ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಲ್ಟಾ”
  • Korean: “살타”
  • Latin: “Salta”
  • Latvian: “Salta”
  • Ligurian: “Salta”
  • Lithuanian: “Salta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Salta”
  • Malagasy: “Salta”
  • Malay: “Salta”
  • Marathi: “साल्ता”
  • Moksha: “Сальта (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Сальта”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salta”
  • Norwegian: “Salta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salta”
  • Ossetian: “Сальтæ”
  • Persian: “سالتا”
  • Polish: “Salta”
  • Portuguese: “Salta”
  • Quechua: “Salta llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Salta”
  • Russian: “Сальта”
  • Serbian: “Салта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salta”
  • Silesian: “Salta (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Salta”
  • Sinhala: “සැල්ටා, ආර්ජන්ටිනාව”
  • Sinhala: “සොල්ටා”
  • Slovak: “Salta”
  • Slovenian: “Salta, Argentina”
  • Slovenian: “Salta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالتا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Salta”
  • Spanish: “Salta capital”
  • Spanish: “Salta ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Salta”
  • Swedish: “Salta”
  • Tamil: “சால்ட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Сальта (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Сальта”
  • Telugu: “సల్తా”
  • Thai: “ซัลตา”
  • Turkish: “Salta”
  • Ukrainian: “Сальта”
  • Urdu: “سالتا”
  • Uzbek: “Salta”
  • Venetian: “Salta”
  • Vietnamese: “Salta”
  • Volapük: “Salta (zif)”
  • Volapük: “Salta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salta”
  • Welsh: “Salta”
  • Western Panjabi: “سالتا”
  • “Salta”

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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 “Salta”. Photo: leito1979ar, CC BY-SA 2.0.