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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  • City with 535,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SLA
  • Description: city located in the Lerma Valley, Argentina

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of High Altitude Archaeology and Salta Cathedral.
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The …
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Salta, Argentina.
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Salta

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Latitude
-24.7893° or 24° 47′ 22″ south
Longitude
-65.4103° or 65° 24′ 37″ west
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Amharic: “ሳልታ”
  • Arabic: “سالتا”
  • Armenian: “Սալտա”
  • Asturian: “Salta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salta”
  • Basque: “Salta”
  • Belarusian: “Сальта”
  • Bengali: “সালটা”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “साल्ता”
  • Hungarian: “Salta”
  • Ido: “Salta”
  • Indonesian: “Salta”
  • Irish: “Salta”
  • Italian: “Salta”
  • Japanese: “サルタ”
  • Javanese: “Salta”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಲ್ಟಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Salta”
  • Kirghiz: “Salta”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Salta”
  • Ossetian: “Сальтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਟਾ”
  • Persian: “سالتا”
  • Polish: “Salta”
  • Portuguese: “Salta”
  • Pushto: “سالتا”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Salta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالتا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Salta”
  • Spanish: “Salta capital”
  • Spanish: “Salta ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Salta”
  • Swahili: “Salta”
  • Swedish: “Salta, Argentina”
  • Swedish: “Salta”
  • Tajik: “Salta”
  • Tamil: “சால்ட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Salta”
  • 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”

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