Cape Virgins
Cape Virgenes is the southeastern promontory of continental Argentina in South America. A little to the south-west, the southernmost point of land is Punta Dúngeness.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of 21 metres (69 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Cape of Virgins”
- Description: southeastern tip of continental Argentina
- Also known as“Cabo Vírjenes”“Cape Vírgenes”“Cape Virgin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cabo Vírgenes Lighthouse and Nombre de Jesús.
Nombre de Jesús
Ruins
Nombre de Jesús was a Spanish town in Patagonia… Nombre de Jesús is situated 3 km west of Cape Virgins.
Cape Virgins
- Category: cape
- Location
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Latitude
-52.33243° or 52° 19′ 57″ south
Longitude
-68.35756° or 68° 21′ 27″ west
Open location code
37VHMJ9R+2X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Cape Virgins” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيب فيرجين”
- Asturian: “Cabu Vírxenes”
- Basque: “Virgenes lurmuturra”
- Cebuano: “Cabo Vírgenes”
- Chinese: “維基尼角”
- Chinese: “维基尼角”
- Czech: “Cabo Vírgenes”
- Czech: “Mys Panen”
- Esperanto: “Kabo Virgenes”
- French: “cap des Vierges”
- French: “Cap des Vierges”
- German: “Cabo Vírgenes”
- Greek: “Ακρωτήριο 11000 Παρθένων”
- Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Παρθένων”
- Greek: “Ακρωτήριο των Παρθένων”
- Hebrew: “כף וירחנס”
- Indonesian: “Cape Virgenes”
- Indonesian: “Cape virgins”
- Indonesian: “Tanjung Virgene”
- Italian: “Capo Virgenes”
- Japanese: “ヴァージネス岬”
- Lithuanian: “Mergelių kyšulys”
- Polish: “Cabo Vírgenes”
- Polish: “Przylądek Dziewic”
- Portuguese: “Cabo das Virgens”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Virgenes”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Vírgenes”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Virgens”
- Spanish: “Cabo de las Virgenes”
- Spanish: “Cabo de las Vírgenes”
- Spanish: “Cabo Virgenes”
- Spanish: “Cabo Vírgenes”
- Swedish: “Cabo Vírgenes”
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