Río Chico Department is a department

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...

 in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Argentina

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. It has a population of 2,926 (2001) and an area of 34,262 km². The seat of the department is in Gobernador Gregores

Gobernador Gregores

Gobernador Gregores is a town in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, formerly known as Cañadón León. It is located at around ....

.

Municipalities and communes

• Bajo Caracoles
  Bajo Caracoles
  Bajo Caracoles is a village and municipality in Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina. It lies on Ruta 40 some 127 km south of the town of Perito Moreno, and 3 km south of the junction with the access road to Cueva de las Manos....
  
  
• Gobernador Gregores
  Gobernador Gregores
  Gobernador Gregores is a town in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, formerly known as Cañadón León. It is located at around ....
  
  
• Hipólito Yrigoyen

Demography

According to a June 2008 estimate from INDEC the population of the department is 3,107.

Table with the demographic evolution of the Río Chico Department according to the national censuses and the variation between censuses in percentage:

	1947	1960	1970	1980	1991	2001
Population	2,588	1,960	2,256	2,063	2,654	2,926
Variation	-	-24.26%	+15.10%	-8.55%	+28.64%	+10.24%

Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos, INDEC