Almirante Brown Department

Almirante Brown
Location of Almirante Brown in Chaco (Argentina)
Data
Capital	Pampa del Infierno
population	29,086 (2001, INDEC)
surface	17,276 km²
Population density	1.7 inhabitants / km²

The department of Almirante Brown is located in the west of the province of Chaco in north-west Argentina and is one of the province's 25 administrative units .

It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Salta , in the north-east by the Department of General Guemes , in the east on the Maipú Department , on the southeast by the Departamento Independencia , on the south by the departments of General Belgrano and Nueve de Julio and to the west by the province of Santiago del Estero .

The capital of the Almirante Brown department is Pampa del Infierno . It is 237 kilometers from the provincial capital Resistencia and around 1,265 kilometers from Buenos Aires .

The department was named after William Brown (1777-1857), Irish- born Commander in Chief of the Argentine Navy.

cities and communes

The Almirante Brown department is divided into the following municipalities:

• Concepción del Bermejo
• Los Frentones
• Pampa del Infierno
• Taco pozo

Web links

• Municipalidad Pampa del Infierno (Spanish)
• Guía del Chaco (Spanish)
• Departamento Almirante Brown - List of schools ( Memento of January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)

Coordinates: 26 ° 0 ′  S , 61 ° 30 ′  W