Monte Hermoso Partido is a
partido on the Atlantic coast of
Buenos Aires Province in
Argentina
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The provincial subdivision has a population of about 5,000 inhabitants in an area of . Its capital city is
Monte Hermoso
Monte Hermoso is a town located on the Atlantic coast of Argentina, some east of the city of Bahía Blanca, in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires. It is the administrative seat of the partido of Monte Hermoso.
Founded at the beginning ...
, from
Buenos Aires
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Geography
Monte Hermoso is a resort (beach) town on the Southern Atlantic coast. The beaches extend for a length of with a slight decline behind a string of
dune
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s.
Climate
Monte Hermoso is situated in the eastern limit of a convergence zone between northern tropical air and southern (polar) cold fronts. It is generally breezy with a strong oceanic influence. The average maximum temperature is and the low is inland in winter.
Distances
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Bahía Blanca
Bahía Blanca (; English: White Bay) is a city in the southwest of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean, and is the seat of government of the Bahía Blanca Partido. It had 301,572 inhabitants according to the . It is the ...
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San Carlos de Bariloche
San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche (), is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake. It is located within the Nahuel Huapi National Par ...
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the Capital city, capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata ...
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* Córdoba, Spain, a major city in southern Spain and formerly the imperial capital of Islamic Spain
* Córdoba, Argentina, 2nd largest city in the country and capital of Córdoba Province
Córdoba or Cordoba may ...
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Mendoza,
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Rosario
Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most po ...
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Settlements
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Monte Hermoso
Monte Hermoso is a town located on the Atlantic coast of Argentina, some east of the city of Bahía Blanca, in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires. It is the administrative seat of the partido of Monte Hermoso.
Founded at the beginning ...
(pop. 5,394)
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Balneario Sauce Grande
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(pop. 177)
References
External links
Official siteMonte HermosoMonte Hermoso Newsfederal websiteNational Meteorological Service
1978 establishments in Argentina
Partidos of Buenos Aires Province
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