Río Gallegos

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Río Gallegos

Total population

115,585

Coordinates-51.62°, -69.22°

Demographic figures from INDEC. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Río Gallegos is the capital and largest settlement of the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz in Argentina. Located in the department of Güer Aike, it had a population of 115,524, according to the 2022 census [INDEC]. The city bears the name of the Gallegos River, and sits on its estuary 2,636 km (1,638 mi) south from the Argentine federal capital Buenos Aires.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Néstor Kirchner

President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007

Alicia Kirchner

Argentine politician

Arturo Puricelli

Argentine politician

Alfredo Martínez

Argentine politician

Jorge Cepernic

Argentine politician

Eduardo Raúl Costa

Argentinian politician

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Federico Alonso

Argentinian racecar driver

Raúl Becerra

Argentinian association football player

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Janet Robertson

Falkland Islands politician

Mario Markic

Argentine writer and journalist

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Maximiliano Ceratto

Argentine association football player

F

Florencia Kirchner

Argentine screenwriter and audiovisual producer

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Diego Bucci

Argentinian association football player

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Roberto Ariel Ivovich

Argentinian politician

Héctor Marcelino García

Argentinian lawyer

Liliana Capos

Argentinian politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Santa Cruz

• Güer Aike
  17 mi away · pop. 580
• Esperanza
  79 mi away · pop. 135
• Comandante Luis Piedrabuena
  113.9 mi away · pop. 9,278
• Puerto Santa Cruz
  114.7 mi away · pop. 5,390
• El Turbio
  123.3 mi away · pop. 55
• Rospentek
  125.7 mi away · pop. 677
• 28 de Noviembre
  128.6 mi away · pop. 9,481
• Julia Dufour
  129.8 mi away · pop. 293
• Río Turbio
  134.1 mi away · pop. 11,670
• El Calafate
  159.9 mi away · pop. 22,844
• Tres Lagos
  170.6 mi away · pop. 408
• Puerto San Julián
  172.7 mi away · pop. 12,493

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Official Identifiers