2nd level Municipality Puerto Tirol CPA Base H 3505 Elevation 38 m Local time Wednesday 8:29 PM | Founded August 6, 1888 Area code(s) +54 3722 | |
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Weather 27°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 71% Humidity | ||
Puerto Tirol is a town in Chaco Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Libertad Department.
Map of Puerto Tirol, Chaco Province, Argentina
The town was founded on August 6, 1888. The name refers to the origin of the initial settlers, who came from the Southern part of the Austro-Hungarian County of Tyrol (in German "Tirol"), an alpine region in Central Europe, today comprising Tyrol, Austria and South Tyrol, Italy.
There is another Tyrolian town in South America, about 900 km to the East, Treze Tilias, in Santa Catarina, Brazil (founded in 1933).
References
Puerto Tirol Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA