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Papagayos
village
Entrada a Papagayos.jpg
Established 1902
Website www.papagayos.gov.ar

Papagayos is a village in Chacabuco Department, San Luis Province, Argentina. Among the small towns that are at the feet of the Comechingones Mountains, Papagayos stands out by its particular landscape of caranday palms.

It borders Villa Larca to the north, Tilisarao to the west, Villa del Carmen to the south and to the east, Córdoba Province.

It has around 750 inhabitants. Its climate is mainly dry with a little summer precipitation.

Toponymy

There are two theories about Papagayos' name. Some people affirm that it derives from papa-gallo, the name the natives gave to a wild medicinal plant. Another theory says that it may be a confusion of the colonists, calling the burrowing parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus) that they found in the zone by that name.

Gallery

  • Atardecer con el Cerro Negro

    Sunset

  • Pueblo Papagayos

    Village

  • Plaza Sarmiento- Papagayos

    Square

  • Iglesia San Pedro1

    Church of San Pedro

  • Arboles y nube

    Landscape

  • Casa piedra

    Stone house

  • Cerro Negro con visitante

    Cerro Negro with a visitor

  • Cerro Negro destacado

    Cerro Negro

  • Area protegida PAPAGAYOS

    Protected area

  • Hacia el río

    Towards the brook

  • 4 vigías

    Four lookouts

  • Cerro Negro2

    Landscape with caranday palms

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