San Patricio del Chañar is a town located in

Añelo Department Añelo is a department located in the east of Neuquén Province, Argentina. Geography The Department is bounded by Pehuenches Department in the north, Rio Negro Province to the east, Confluencia Department on the southeast, Zapala Department to ...

, 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.

Economy

In San Patricio del Chañar agriculture is one of the most important activities. The main crop is

grape A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years ago, ...

s, used for the production of wine, a new business for the area and the province.

Energy sources

The town is provided of electric energy by a small dam located in the area.

Culture

The word ''Chañar'' comes from the

Quechuan language Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely ...

name for a kind of bush (chical in

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). {{DEFAULTSORT:San Patricio del Chanar Populated places in Neuquén Province Populated places established in 1973