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Tucapel

Tucapel

Tucapel is a town and commune in the Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region, . It was once a region of Araucanía named for the Tucapel River. The name of the region derived from the rehue and aillarehue of the Moluche people of the area between the and the , who were famed for their long resistance to the Spanish in the Arauco War.
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Tucapel

Latitude
-37.29256° or 37° 17′ 33″ south
Longitude
-71.94952° or 71° 56′ 58″ west
Population
3,030
Elevation
342 metres (1,122 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CL TUC
Open location code
47JCP342+X5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 214193057
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3868988
Wiki­data ID
Q200965
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Tucapel” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Tucapel”
  • Basque: “Tucapel”
  • Cebuano: “Tucapel”
  • Chinese: “Tucapel”
  • Chinese: “图卡佩尔”
  • Chinese: “圖卡佩爾”
  • Dutch: “Tucapel”
  • French: “Tucapel”
  • Galician: “Tucapel”
  • German: “Tucapel”
  • Italian: “Tucapel”
  • Japanese: “トゥカペル”
  • Korean: “투카펠”
  • Mapudungun: “Tukén pele”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tucapel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tucapel”
  • Persian: “توکاپل”
  • Polish: “Tucapel”
  • Portuguese: “Tucapel”
  • Romanian: “Tucapel”
  • Russian: “Тукапель”
  • Spanish: “Tucapel”
  • Swedish: “Tucapel”
  • Ukrainian: “Тукапель”
  • Urdu: “توکاپل”

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