Tinogasta () is a city in the west of the , on the right-hand shore of the
Abaucán River, about 280 km from the provincial capital
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca () is the capital and largest city in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato. The city name is normally shortened as Catamarca.
The city of , ...
. It had about 11,500 inhabitants at the . It is the head town of the
department of the same name. The name of the city comes from the
Kakana words ''tino'' ("meeting") and ''gasta'' ("town").
Tinogasta is a tourist site. It has access to the mountains for adventure tourism,
hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by c ...
s, and archaeological museums. The basis of the local economy is agriculture, focused on
vine
A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners. The word ''vine'' can also refer to such stems or runners themsel ...
.
Climate
The
Köppen Climate Classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
subtype for this climate is "
BSk BSK is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
Sports
* OFK Beograd, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Borča, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Batajnica, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Banja Luka, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football club
* FK BSK L ...
". (Tropical and Subtropical Steppe Climate).
Climate Summary for Tinogasta
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References
External links
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Populated places in Catamarca Province