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Alto de la Sierra

human settlement in Argentina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4736830 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alto de la Sierra is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province within the Rivadavia department in northwestern Argentina. Much of the population is aboriginal, engaged mainly in small-scale farming.

Location

Alto de la Sierra is located over 50 km southeast of the town of Santa Victoria Este, through a path that connects to the Formosan town of General Mosconi.

Population

Alto de la Sierra had 781 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001). In the previous census of 1991, the area was listed as a dispersed rural population.

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The public source identifies “Alto de la Sierra” as human settlement in Argentina. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alto, Sierra and human.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4736830. Authority coordinates are -22.733, -62.500. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alto de la Sierra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.