Tilcara

Tilcara is a pleasant town in in . It is the tourist centre of the world heritage site Quebrada de Humahuaca, and in addition to having its own sights to see, it makes a good base for day trips to other towns in the area.
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  • Village with 6,250 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,486 metres (8,156 feet)
  • Description: human settlement in Argentina

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pucará de Tilcara and Tilcara train station.
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The is a pre-Inca fortification…
Galio, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station.
Claudio Elias, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Tilcara

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Latitude
-23.5769° or 23° 34′ 37″ south
Longitude
-65.3934° or 65° 23′ 36″ west
Open location code
578PCJF4+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198429516
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3834403
Wiki­data ID
Q604722

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Uzbek—“Tilcara” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቲልካራ”
  • Arabic: “تيلكارا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tilkara”
  • Bengali: “তিলকারা”
  • Catalan: “Tilcara”
  • Cebuano: “Tilcara”
  • Chinese: “蒂爾卡拉”
  • Dutch: “Tilcara”
  • French: “Tilcara”
  • German: “Tilcara”
  • Hausa: “Tilcara”
  • Hindi: “तिलकारा”
  • Indonesian: “Tilcara”
  • Italian: “Tilcara”
  • Japanese: “ティルカラ”
  • Javanese: “Tilcara”
  • Kazakh: “Тилкара”
  • Kirghiz: “Тилкара”
  • Latvian: “Tilkara”
  • Lithuanian: “Tilkara”
  • Malay: “Tilcara”
  • Oromo: “Tilcara”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿਲਕਾਰਾ”
  • Persian: “تیلکارا”
  • Polish: “Tilcara”
  • Portuguese: “Tilcara”
  • Pushto: “تیلکارا”
  • Russian: “Тилкара”
  • Somali: “Tilcara”
  • Spanish: “Tilcara”
  • Swahili: “Tilcara”
  • Swedish: “Tilcara”
  • Tajik: “Тилкара”
  • Tatar: “Тилкара”
  • Turkish: “Tilcara”
  • Ukrainian: “Тількара”
  • Urdu: “ٹلکارا”
  • Uzbek: “Tilcara”

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