Los_Antiguos

Los Antiguos

Los Antiguos

Town in Santa Cruz, Argentina

Los Antiguos is a town in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, located on the south shore of Lago Buenos Aires. It lies 2 km from the border with Chile, and 8 km from the Chilean town of Chile Chico. It is connected to Perito Moreno and Caleta Olivia on the Atlantic coast by a paved road.

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The town is an agricultural oasis, where small farms produce fruit crops. It was founded as the Leandro Alem Agricultural Colony in 1921, and was formally designated as a municipality in 1970. The area was covered by dust from the 1991 eruption of Mount Hudson, but it has since recovered.

The name of Los Antiguos is a translation of the Tehuelche name, I-Keu-khon, meaning "Place of the Elders."

In the 2010 census the town had a population of 3,363.[1]

Geography

Climate

Los Antiguos has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk) with warm, sunny summers and cold, snowy winters.

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References

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    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2020-03-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "Síntesis agrometeorológica de la localidad de Los Antiguos (Santa Cruz) 2000–2015" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Retrieved September 24, 2017.


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