Olacapato is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province

Salta Province

Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy...

 in northwestern 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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Olacapato, one of the highest towns in Argentina (4,090 msnm), may be found on the routes of the Railroad General Manuel Belgrano of the branch of the Train of the clouds, next to national route Nº 51, to 2.5 km to the north of Olacapato Chico and to 45 km to the west of San Antonio de los Cobres.

The previous census of 1991 indicated a population of 186 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001), appearing as a rural dispersed population.