Río Pico is a town in

Tehuelches Department Tehuelches Department is a department of Chubut Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a total area of 14,750 km², and its capital city is José de San Martín, which is located around 1,870 km from the Capital federa ...

, province of Chubut, Argentina. The town owes its name to the engineer Octavio Pico Burgess (1837–1892), in honor of his task as an expert in the border conflict between Argentina and Chile.

Population

In 2001 the town had 1,055 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001), representing an increase of 11.3% compared to the 948 inhabitants (INDEC, 1991) in the previous census.

Climate

A weather station in the town worked briefly in 1928. Like nearby Balmaceda, Río Pico has a

cold-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

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''Csc'').

References

External links

Río Pico page
at Patagonia Express Populated places in Chubut Province {{Chubut-geo-stub