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Seclantás

human settlement in Argentina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ967543 ↗
Source-derived summary

Seclantás is a small village located in northwestern Argentina, 165 km south west from Salta. Historically, the Calchaqui Valley was occupied by several tribes, each with its own chief. In the region, where Seclantas is nowadays, there lived a tribe whose chief was called “Seclanta”. Hence the name of the village.

Population

The population of Seclantas is 716.

Weather

The average temperature for the town is around 60 °F. During the summer, Seclantas has its rainy season with around 70% chances of rain.

References

Media related to Seclantás at Wikimedia Commons.

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 91-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seclantás, human and settlement providing the first useful test.
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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 Nov 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q967543. Authority coordinates are -25.331, -66.244. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Seclantás” 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.