San Francisco del Monte de Oro
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location | 32 ° 36 ′ S , 66 ° 8 ′ W | |
Height above d. M .: | 796 m | |
Population (2001): | 3295 | |
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Province : | San Luis | |
Department : | Ayacucho | |
Mayor: | Raúl Vega, Frente Partido Justicialista | |
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Postal code : | D5705 | |
Telephone code: | 02651 |
San Francisco del Monte de Oro is the capital of the Ayacucho department in the San Luis Province in western Argentina . It is located 115 kilometers north of the provincial capital San Luis in a valley between the Sierras de San Luis and the Sierras de Socoscora . The valley is traversed by the Río San Francisco .
Worth seeing
- Ranchito de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento . In memory of the Argentine writer and president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, there is a small thatched ranchito made of adobe bricks in which he taught at one corner of the Banda Sur square .
Web links
- Portal of San Francisco del Monte de Oro (Spanish)
- IFAM population data (Spanish)