San Miguel de Tucumán

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind San Miguel de Tucumán is GeoNames ID 3836873. Its recorded administrative path is Departamento de Capital → Tucuman → Argentina, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

San Miguel de Tucumán 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.

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, San Miguel de Tucumán ranks 1,020 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Argentina entries it ranks 5; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 166.

Its 548,866 population value is 0.71 times the 770,825 median for the country cohort and 0.67 times the 816,326 regional median. San Miguel de Tucumán is rank 5 among the 6 selected Argentina entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort.

San Miguel de Tucumán'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.

Nearest-reference pattern

San Miguel de Tucumán's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Salta at 224.434 km with 520,683 recorded people; Córdoba at 519.993 km with 2,106,734 recorded people; Asunción at 774.342 km with 1,482,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 549.908 km. Compared with Salta, San Miguel de Tucumán's recorded population is 1.05 times as large. Against San Miguel de Tucumán, Salta follows Departamento Capital → Salta → Argentina in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Argentina cohort, uses America/Argentina/Salta instead of America/Argentina/Tucuman, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class.

Its recorded population is below San Miguel de Tucumán's. Against San Miguel de Tucumán, 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/Tucuman, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above San Miguel de Tucumán's. Against San Miguel de Tucumán, Asunción follows Asuncion → Paraguay in the source.

Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Paraguay cohort rather than Argentina, uses America/Asuncion instead of America/Argentina/Tucuman, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above San Miguel de Tucumán's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,036 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. San Miguel de Tucumán'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 3836873, the coordinate pair 26.8160 / 65.2105, country rank 5 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3838233 at 224.434 km bind San Miguel de Tucumán to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

San Miguel de Tucumán's reference point is 26.8160° south and 65.2105° west. The IANA identifier America/Argentina/Tucuman is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. San Miguel de Tucumán's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

San Miguel de Tucumán's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. San Miguel de Tucumán's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for San Miguel de Tucumán, 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.