Coronel Rosales Partido is a partido

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...

 located on the southern coast of Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

 in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

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The provincial subdivision has a population of about 61,000 inhabitants in an area of 1312 km² (507 sq mi), and its capital city is Punta Alta

Punta Alta

Punta Alta is a city in Argentina, about 20 kilometers southeast of Bahía Blanca. It has a population of 57,296. It is the capital of the Coronel Rosales Partido...

, which is located around 650 km (404 mi) from Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

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Attractions

The coastal village of Pehuen Có is popular with tourists from Gran Buenos Aires and it benefits from a beautiful beach, woodlands, a shipwreck, and some interesting fossils.

Sport

The city of Punta Alta is home to Sporting Punta Alta

Sporting Punta Alta

Club Atlético Sporting are an Argentine Football club, their home town is Punta Alta, in the Coronel Rosales Partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. They played in Argentino B until 2009 when they resigned from the league....

, a football club that play in the regionalised 4th Division

Torneo Argentino B

Torneo Argentino B is one of two leagues that form the regionalised fourth level of the Argentine football league system. Clubs in Torneo Argentinos B come from all over Argentina....

 of Argentinian football.

Settlements

• Punta Alta
  Punta Alta
  Punta Alta is a city in Argentina, about 20 kilometers southeast of Bahía Blanca. It has a population of 57,296. It is the capital of the Coronel Rosales Partido...
  
  , 57,296
• Bajo Hondo 165
• Calderón (Rosales)
• Paso Mayor
• Pehuen Có 674
• Villa del Mar, 353
• Villa General Arias, 1,777

External links

• Pehuen Có website