Villa General Roca
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location | 32 ° 40 ′ S , 66 ° 27 ′ W | |
Height above d. M .: | 631 m | |
Population (2001): | 196 | |
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Province : | San Luis | |
Department : | Belgrano | |
Mayor: | Juan Carlos García, PJ | |
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Postal code : | D5703 | |
Telephone code: | 02652 | |
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Villa General Roca is the capital of the Belgrano Department in the San Luis Province in western Argentina . It is located 74 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital San Luis off the Ruta Nacional 147 .
Worth seeing
- Embalse del Río Amieva . The reservoir was created in 1955 when the Río Amieva was dammed, which rises in the Pampa de los Corrales on the eastern slope of Cerro Monigote . Today it is the main tourist attraction of the place as the center of sport fishing.
Web links
- Belgrano Department and Villa General Roca (Spanish)
- IFAM population data (Spanish)