Punta Tombo
Punta Tombo is a peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean 110 km south of Trelew in Chubut Province, Argentina, where there is a large colony of Magellanic penguins - the largest such colony in Argentina. It is a short distance north of Camarones.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Punta Tombo
- Type: Cape
- Description: protected area
- Categories: protected area and landform
- Location: Florentino Ameghino Department, Chubut Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-44.03622° or 44° 2′ 10″ southLongitude
-65.1903° or 65° 11′ 25″ westElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
477PXR75+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 8915033655OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Punta Tombo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بونتا تومبو”
- Catalan: “Punta Tombo”
- Cebuano: “Punta Tombo”
- Chinese: “通博角”
- Dutch: “Punta Tombo”
- Esperanto: “Punta Tombo”
- French: “Punta Tombo”
- German: “Punta Tombo”
- Japanese: “トンボ岬”
- Japanese: “プンタトンボ”
- Polish: “Punta Tombo”
- Slovenian: “Punta Tombo”
- Spanish: “Punta Tombo”
- Swedish: “Punta Tombo”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Punta Tombo”. Photo: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0.