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Guachipas Department

department of Argentina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1190588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guachipas is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

With an area of 2,785 km2 (1,075 sq mi) it borders to the north and northeast with Metán Department, to the east with the Departments of La Candelaria and Rosario de la Frontera, to the south with Cafayate and Tucumán Province, and to the west with La Viña Department.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Guachipas Department” as department of Argentina. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 58-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Guachipas, Department and department can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as department of Argentina. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1190588. Authority coordinates are -25.714, -65.441. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guachipas Department” 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.