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La Poma is a department located in Salta Province,
La Poma is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina
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. It is the least populated department of the province and its capital is the town of La Poma
La Poma is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina
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.
Geography
Overview
The department is located in the north-western area of the province, near theAndes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...
, and includes the Puna de Atacama
The Puna de Atacama or Atacama Plateau''Atacama Plateau''
article at the ''
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Muñano: in north the area of Cobres and in south the one of La Poma. It borders with
La Poma Department on Salta Province website
{{Departments Salta Departments of Salta Province
Jujuy Province
Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south.
Geography
There are three main areas in Jujuy:
...
and the departments of Los Andes, Cachi and Rosario de Lerma
Rosario de Lerma is a town in the center of the province of Salta, Argentina.
Overview
It has 21,592 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Rosario de Lerma Department
Rosario de Lerma is a department located in Salta Province, ...
.
Places
Towns and municipalities: *La Poma
La Poma is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina ...
(615 inh.)
* Cobres (112 inh.)
Other localities and places:
* Cerro Negro
Cerro Negro is an active volcano in the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain range in Nicaragua, about from the village of Malpaisillo. It is a very new volcano, the youngest in Central America, having first appeared in April 1850. It consist ...
* El Rodeo
* El Saladillo
* El Trigal
* El Volcán
* Muñano
* Potrerillos
* Tipán
See also
*Tren a las Nubes
The Tren a las Nubes ( en, Train to the Clouds) is a tourist train service in Salta Province, Argentina. The service runs along the eastern part of the Salta–Antofagasta railway line of the Belgrano Railway (also known as the "C-14" line) t ...
* Los Cardones National Park
*Salta–Antofagasta railway
The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, is a non-electrified single track railway line that links Argentina and Chile passing through the Andes. It is a railway with a total length of 941 km (571 in Argentina and 330 in Ch ...
References
External links
La Poma Department on Salta Province website
{{Departments Salta Departments of Salta Province