Official Name: | Algarrobo del Águila |
Settlement Type: | Rural locality and village |
Pushpin Map: | Argentina |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | ![]() |
Subdivision Type2: | Department |
Subdivision Name2: | Chical Có |
Leader Title: | Development Commission |
Leader Name: | Pablo Raúl Bravo, FU |
Established Date: | 5 February 1899 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 4448.2 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 641 |
Population Density Km2: | 0.144 |
Population Demonym: | aguilense |
Timezone: | ART |
Utc Offset: | -3 |
Coordinates: | -36.4333°N -76°W |
Elevation M: | 305 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | L6323 |
Area Code: | 02924 |
Algarrobo del Águila is a village and rural locality (municipality) in La Pampa Province in Argentina.[1] It is the capital of the Chical Có Department, 171 km from Santa Rosa, the provincial capital of the La Pampa province, and 693 km from Buenos Aires. It is located on Provincial Route 10 and National Route 151.
Algarrobo del Águila had 641 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001), which represented an increase of 36.67% over the previous population of 469 inhabitants (INDEC, 1991) from the previous census.
There are two variants of whether there was a locust (algarrobo) or a caldén, in front of the police station. The Águila is a white-breasted eagle.[2]
Algarrobo was a land occupied by native peoples for more than six thousand years. Indeed, during that time it was a "white desert". By 1870 the Argentine Army had expelled the last native. Up to 1876, the cacique Juan José Catriel lived with his people in the region.