Place:Catamarca (departamento), Catamarca, Argentina

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NameCatamarca (departamento)
Alt namesSan Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
Catamarcasource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 228-229
Londressource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) II, 946-947
TypeCity
Coordinates28.467°S 65.783°W
Located inCatamarca, Argentina     (1559 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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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 , located above sea level, has 159,000 inhabitants, with more than 200,000 counting the suburbia, what represents around 70% of the population of the province.

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History and politics

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An initial settlement, called Londres, was established here by Spanish colonists in 1558; a permanent settlement was not founded until 1683, by Fernando de Mendoza y Mate de Luna. Catamarca comes from Quechua meaning "fortress on the slope".

The city, which had only 8,000 inhabitants in 1882 and was reached by a railway line in 1888, grew very slowly, and the region remained poor even in the middle of the 20th century.

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