Güer Aike Department is a department in Santa Cruz Province,

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. It has a population of 113,267 and an area of 33,841 km². The seat of the department is in Río Gallegos which also has the majority of the population with 97,742. Veintiocho de Noviembre has the next largest population with 6,145 inhabitants. The name means 'large camp' in the ''aonikenk'' (or 'tehuelche') language of southern

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Settlements

* El Turbio *

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* Mina 3 * Río Gallegos *

Río Turbio Río Turbio is a town and municipality in the Güer Aike Department of the Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina. It was founded in late 1942, as a consequence of the coal mining in the area. Rio Turbio was home to the state-owned coal extr ...

* Rospentek * Veintiocho de Noviembre * Güer Aike * Camusu Aike

References

*Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos,

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Departments of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina {{SantaCruzAR-geo-stub