1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Argentina
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Salta—520,683, America/Argentina/Salta, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city located in the Lerma Valley, Argentina.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Salta is GeoNames ID 3838233. Its recorded administrative path is Departamento Capital → Salta → Argentina, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Salta occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Salta ranks 1,088 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Argentina entries it ranks 6; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 177. Its 520,683 population value is 0.68 times the 770,825 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 816,326 regional median. Salta is rank 6 among the 6 selected Argentina entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Salta's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Salta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Miguel de Tucumán at 224.434 km with 548,866 recorded people; Córdoba at 743.743 km with 2,106,734 recorded people; Asunción at 784.747 km with 1,482,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 560.313 km. Compared with San Miguel de Tucumán, Salta's recorded population is 0.95 times as large. Against Salta, San Miguel de Tucumán follows Departamento de Capital → Tucuman → Argentina in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Argentina cohort, uses America/Argentina/Tucuman instead of America/Argentina/Salta, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Salta's. Against Salta, Córdoba follows Departamento de Capital → Cordoba → Argentina in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Argentina cohort, uses America/Argentina/Cordoba instead of America/Argentina/Salta, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Salta's. Against Salta, Asunción follows Asuncion → Paraguay in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Paraguay cohort rather than Argentina, uses America/Asuncion instead of America/Argentina/Salta, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Salta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,036 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Salta's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3838233, the coordinate pair 24.8065 / 65.4200, country rank 6 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3836873 at 224.434 km bind Salta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Salta's reference point is 24.8065° south and 65.4200° west. The IANA identifier America/Argentina/Salta is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Salta's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Salta's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Salta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Salta, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Salta's closest other entries in this atlas are San Miguel de Tucumán (224.434 km), Córdoba (743.743 km), Asunción (784.747 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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