Villa Castelli is a small town and seat of the
General Lamadrid Department
General Lamadrid is a department of La Rioja Province (Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , mak ...
in the
Province of La Rioja, northwestern Argentina. As of 2010 it had a population of 1,697.
Around west of the city of
La Rioja, it is at the foot of the
Sierra de Famatina 200px, Coat of arms of La Rioja featuring ''Cerro General Belgrano''
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, and the
Vichina River flows in the vicinity.
In March 2015,
a helicopter collision in the town killed 10 people, including French athletes
Florence Arthaud
Florence Arthaud (28 October 1957 – 9 March 2015) was a French sailor from Boulogne-Billancourt. She was the daughter of Jacques Arthaud, director of the Arthaud publishing house.
Biography
At age 17, she was in a serious car accident, which ...
,
Camille Muffat
Camille Muffat (; 28 October 1989 – 9 March 2015) was a French swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist. Swimming for the Olympic Nice Natation club, she specialised in the individual medley and the free style events. Her career ran from 2005 ...
and
Alexis Vastine.
References
Populated places in La Rioja Province, Argentina
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