Pico Truncado

Pico Truncado
Municipality and town
Pico Truncado is located in Argentina
Pico Truncado
Pico Truncado
Coordinates: 46°47′42″S 67°57′18″W / 46.79500°S 67.95500°W / -46.79500; -67.95500
Country Argentina
Province Santa Cruz
DepartmentDeseado Department
Established11 July 1921
Government
 • MayorOsvaldo Maimó (FdT)
Area
 • Total30.3 km2 (11.7 sq mi)
 • Land8 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population
 (2010 census)
 • Total20,889
 • Density689/km2 (1,780/sq mi)
DemonymTruncadense
Time zoneUTC−3 (ART)

Pico Truncado is a town and municipality in Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina.[1] In 1921, the village's railway station was the site of one of the few open engagements between the Argentine Army and anarchist strikers at the time of the events known as Patagonia rebelde, where the army suffered its only fatality of the campaign.[2]

  1. ^ Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)
  2. ^ La Patagonia rebelde (tomo II: La masacre). Osvaldo Bayer, Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires, (1972), p. 125 (in Spanish)