Rucachoroi is a town in the

Aluminé Department Aluminé is a department located in the west of Neuquén Province, Argentina. Geography

The department borders with Chile to the east and northeast, Loncopué Department to the northwest, Zapala Department at the southwest and Huiliches Dep ...

Neuquén Province Neuquén () is a Provinces of Argentina, province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. It borders Mendoza Province to the north, Rio Negro Province to the southeast, and Chile to the west. It also me ...

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

, it is located at an altitude of 3,234 meters over the sea level. It is named after the nearby Rucachoroi Lake. ''Rucachoroi'' means "house of the parrots" in

Mapundungun Mapuche ( , ; from 'land' and 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') or Mapudungun (from 'land' and 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also spelled Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) is either a language isolate or member of the sm ...

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Populated places in Neuquén Province {{Neuquén-geo-stub