Argentina (officially the Argentine Republic, República Argentina) is the second largest country of South America and has a population approaching 50 million. Located on the southern east coast of the continent, Argentina has a lengthy coastline on the South Atlantic Ocean, extending from the warm waters of the Río de la Plata to the edge of the cold Southern Ocean. Colonized by Spain in the mid 1500s, Argentina secured its independence and territorial integrity in series of uprisings between 1810 and 18i6. Several decades of controversy and conflict established the organization of the country and its borders with its neighbors to the north. Between 1878 and 1884 Argentina expanded its control southward, occupying the region of Patagonia east of the Andes Mountains. Argentina is a federation of 23 provinces (provincias) plus the autonomous capital city of Buenos Aires. This page includes lighthouses of the central part of mainland Argentina's South Atlantic coast in Río Negro and Chubut Provinces. These two provinces together include the northern half of Argentine Patagonia. The provinces are divided into counties called departments (departamentos). The Spanish word for a lighthouse is faro; smaller lighthouses are often called balizas (beacons). In Spanish isla is an island, cabo is a cape, punta is a promontory or point of land, péñon is a rock, arrecife is a reef, bahía is a bay, ría is an estuary or inlet, estrecho is a strait, río is a river, and puerto is a port or harbor. Active lighthouses in Argentina are owned by the Argentine Navy and managed by the Navy's Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (SHN). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume G of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 110, except for lights of the Beagle Channel, which are from Publication 111. The official Argentine light list, Faros y Señales Marítimas, is not available online.
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Río Negro Province Lighthouses
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Chubut Province Lighthouses
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![]() Puerto Madryn Light, Puerto Madryn, Febrauary 2021 Google Maps photo by Ground Training |
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![]() Cabo San José Light, Camerones, October 2013 Google Maps photo by Juan Pablo Giacalone |
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![]() Cabo San Jorge Light, Comodoro Rivadavia, December 2023 Instagram photo by Juan Martín Encina Amatriain |
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Adjoining pages: North: Buenos Aires | East: Falkland Islands | South: Santa Cruz
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Posted December 2003. Checked and revised September 2, 2024. Lighthouses: 45. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.