Chubut Province
Chubut Province
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| Province of Chubut | |
Villa Lago Rivadavia and the Andes | |
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Location of Chubut within Argentina | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Capital | Rawson |
| Departments | 15 |
| Municipalities and communes | 47 |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Ignacio Torres (PRO) |
| • Vice Governor | Gustavo Menna (UCR) |
| • Legislature | 27 |
| • National Deputies | 5 |
| • National Senators | Carlos Linares (FDT) Edith Terenzi (JXC) Andrea Cristina (JXC) |
| Area | |
• Total | 224,686 km2 (86,752 sq mi) |
| Population (2022 census) | |
• Total | 592,621 |
| • Rank | 18th |
| • Density | 2.63755/km2 (6.83123/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Chubutense |
| GDP | |
| • Total | US$ 7.2 billion |
| • Per capita | US$ 11,500 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
| ISO 3166 code | AR-U |
| Languages | Spanish (official) Welsh (co-official) |
| HDI (2021) | 0.858 very high (3rd) |
| Website | www |
Chubut (Spanish: Provincia del Chubut [tʃuˈβut] – from Tehuelche chupat 'transparent'; Welsh: Talaith Chubut [taˈlaɪθ ˈχɨbɨt]) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range to the west (bordering Chile), and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The province's name derives from the Tehuelche word chupat, meaning 'transparent', their description of the Chubut River.
The largest city is Comodoro Rivadavia in the south of the province; it had 199,369 inhabitants at the 2022 Census. The administrative capital is Rawson (27,157). Other important cities are Puerto Madryn (97,625), Trelew (104,657), Esquel (36,624) and Sarmiento (13,892). Gaiman (6,376) is a cultural and demographic centre of the region known as Y Wladfa in which Welsh-Argentines are concentrated.