What is "chinchon"

Chinchón is a Spanish town and municipality 50 km southeast of Madrid in the autonomous Community of Madrid. It is part of the Comarca de Las Vegas. The population was 5,447 in 2014.1

Chinchon or Chinchón can refer to:

• Chinchón, a town in Spain
• Castle of Chinchón, a castle in Spain
• Anisette, also called "Chinchón dulce"
• Chinchón (card game)
• Chinchun, also spelled Chinchón, a mountain in Peru

Chinchón is a matching card game played in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, Cape Verde and other places. It is a close variant of Gin rummy, with which it shares the same objective: making sets, groups or runs, of matching cards.

The name is spelled Txintxon in Basque and in Cape Verdean Creole (the latter also features the alternate spellings txin-txon, tchintchom or tchintchon). In Uruguay, the game is called Conga or La Conga.