Los Andes Depairtment

Los Andes (i.e.: The Andes) is a depairtment locatit in Salta Province, Argentina. It is the seicont per extension, efter Rivadavia Depairtment, an its caipital is the toun o San Antonio de los Cobres.

Los Andes
Depairtment
Coordinates: 24°12′59″S 66°19′19″W
Kintra	Argentinae
Province	Salta
Caipital	San Antonio de los Cobres
Area
• Total	25636 km2 (9,898 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	5,630
• Density	0.22/km2 (0.57/sq mi)

A road in San Antonio de los Cobres

View o Tolar Grande

Geografie

Owerview

The depairtment is locatit in the wastren aurie o the province, on the eastren side o the Andes, an includes the Puna de Atacama. It borders wi Antofagasta Region (Chile), the provinces o Jujuy an Catamarca, an the depairtments o La Poma, Cachi an Chicoana. The territorial strip linkin the northren an soothren side o La Poma Depairtment separes Los Andes frae Rosario de Lerma Depairtment.

Places

Touns an municipalities:

• San Antonio de los Cobres (5,482 inh.)
• Mina La Casualidad (abandoned)
• Olacapato (186 inh.)
• Santa Rosa de los Pastos Grandes (136 inh.)
• Tolar Grande (119 inh.)

Ither localities an places:

• Caipe
• Chuculaqui
• Laguna Seca
• Los Patos
• Mina Concordia
• Mina Tincalado
• Quebrada del Agua
• Salar de Pocitos
• Socompa
• Taca Taca
• Unquillal
• Vega de Arizaro

See an aw

• Tren a las Nubes
• La Polvorilla
• Salar de Arizaro
• Salta–Antofagasta railwey

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae Departments of Salta at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Spaingie) Los Andes Depairtment on Salta Province wabsteid Archived 2012-05-29 at the Wayback Machine