Calingasta Department
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| Official name | Departamento Calingasta | |
| Capital | Tamberías | |
| Country Province |
Argentina  San Juan  |
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| Foundation Founder |
December 17, 1869 |
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| Population: | ||
| - Total | 8.176 (2001 census [INDEC]) | |
| - Density | 0,4 Inhabitants/km² | |
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| Telephone code | 0264 | |
| Post Code | SJ5400 | |
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| Area | 22.589 km² | |
| Distance: | ||
| - to Buenos Aires | 1.180km | |
| Patron | San José | |
| Mayor | José Adolfo Ibaceta | |
| Web Site | ||
| IFAM Statistics | IFAM | |
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Calingasta is a department of the province of San Juan (Argentina). It is located at the southwestern tip of the province, which is predominantly a landscape of mountains clearly, mountains and rivers. Characterized by its production of apple and demonstrate a remarkable growth mainly in the tourist town of Barreal and Tamberías
[edit] Origin of name
Several have been the meanings that have been given to indigenous root of this word. People of the inhabitants of Calían. Skirt or safe or major hills. Transforming Catalve "(River of the hillside), as the area was called Calingasta the arrival of the Spaniards.
[edit] Geography
The department Calingasta is southwest of the province of San Juan, west, 135 miles City of San Juan, it has an area of 22,589 square kilometres, which succeeds in ubicarce Firstly with respect to its surface at the provincial level. Its boundaries are:
- To the north with the department Iglesia
- To the south with the Mendoza Province
- To the east with the departments of Sarmiento Zonda and Ullum
- To the west with the Republic of Chile
- Relief
Calingasta has fully rugged topography (hilly), as its location is at the foot of the Andes, where the mountains are complemented with its main highest elevation, the mountain Mercedario (6,720 meters), after Aconcagua and it is possible to highlight an area precordillerana lower height as the first with numerous mountain cave highlight the Sierra del Tontal. The soil is mainly features desert with little vegetation cover, with exceptions in the valleys located on the banks of rivers.
- Climate
The climate is mostly desert with little precipitation, highlighting marked thermal amplitudes, with notable differences in temperature between night and day, a major solar radiation.
