Loreto Department

{{Short description|Department of Argentina in Santiago del Estero Province}}

{{For|the department in Peru|Department of Loreto}}

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Loreto Department is a department of Argentina in Santiago del Estero Province. The capital city of the department is Loreto.{{Cite book |last1=Mulhall |first1=Michael George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DIJUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Loreto+Department+argentina&pg=RA1-PA398 |title=Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map |last2=Mulhall |first2=Edward T. |date=1885 |publisher=M.G. and E.T.Mulhall |language=en}}