La Rioja, founded as the City of All Saints of New Rioja, is the capital of La Rioja Province in the Argentine Northwest, at the foot of the Sierra de Velasco. It was founded in 1591 by the Spanish conquistador Juan Ramirez de Velasco under the original name Todos los Santos de Nueva Rioja, named after his home region in Spain. Situated 600 meters above sea level, the city had a population of 178,872 as of the 2010 census.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. La Rioja (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 211,651 (2022)
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -29.25, -66.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -29.25, -66.75
-29.25 -66.75 BSh
3. GeoNames: La Rioja - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3848950, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3848950, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-29.41328 -66.85637 P PPLA AR 12 46014 178872 493 America/Argentina/La_Rioja
La Rioja, Argentina (Wikipedia)
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La Rioja ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈrjoxa], locally [la ˈʂjoxa]), founded as the City of All Saints of New Rioja (Spanish: Ciudad de Todos los Santos de Nueva Rioja), is the capital city of the eponymous La Rioja Province, located in the Argentine Northwest at the foot of the Sierra de Velasco.
La Rioja (Wikipedia)
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