Mejillones
Mejillones is a Chilean port city and commune in Antofagasta Province in the Antofagasta Region. Its name is the plural form of the Spanish mejillón meaning "mussel", referring to a particularly abundant species and preferred staple food of its indigenous inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Mejillones
- Type: Town with 12,800 residents
- Description: Chilean city and commune
- Categories: commune of Chile, city in Chile, and locality
- Location: Mejillones, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-23.10023° or 23° 6′ 1″ southLongitude
-70.44831° or 70° 26′ 54″ westPopulation
12,800Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL MJSOpen location code
578FVHX2+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 214195492OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Mejillones” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميجيلونيس”
- Asturian: “Mejillones”
- Asturian: “Moxones”
- Basque: “Mejillones”
- Catalan: “Mejillones”
- Cebuano: “Mejillones”
- Chinese: “Mejillones”
- Chinese: “梅希約內斯”
- Chinese: “梅希约内斯”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mejillones”
- Dutch: “Mejillones”
- French: “Mejillones”
- German: “Mejillones”
- Hebrew: “מחיונס”
- Italian: “Mejillones”
- Japanese: “メヒヨネス”
- Japanese: “メヒヨネス市”
- Korean: “메히요네스”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mejillones”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mejillones”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mejillones”
- Persian: “مخییونس”
- Polish: “Mejillones”
- Portuguese: “Mejillones”
- Romanian: “Mejillones”
- Russian: “Мехильонес”
- Spanish: “Mejillones”
- Swedish: “Mejillones”
- Turkish: “Mejillones”
- Ukrainian: “Мехільйонес”
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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 “Mejillones”. Photo: Victorddt, CC BY-SA 4.0.