Picún Leufú is a second category municipality and the capital of
Picún Leufú Department
Picún Leufú is a department located in the east of Neuquén Province, Argentina.
Geography
The Department limits with Confluencia Department at northeast, Rio Negro Province at southeast, Collón Curá Department at southwest, Catán Lil Dep ...
located in
Neuquén Province
Neuquén () is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. It borders Mendoza Province to the north, Rio Negro Province to the southeast, and Chile to the west. It also meets La Pampa Province a ...
, Argentina.
History
Picún Leufú was established on September 12, 1971.
Culture
The name of the town comes from
Mapudungun
Mapuche (, Mapuche & Spanish: , or Mapudungun; from ' 'land' and ' 'speak, speech') is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people (from ''mapu'' 'land' and ''che ...
and it means ''North River''.
Populated places in Neuquén Province
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