Mapocho River
The River Mapocho is a river in Chile. It flows from its source in the Andes mountains onto the west and divides Chile's capital Santiago in two.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Christian Van Der Henst S., CC BY 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talagante.
Talagante
Town
Photo: Penarc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Talagante is a commune and the capital city of the province of the same name in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. The word Talagante in Quechua comes from talacanta, meaning "Lazo de Hechicero", which was the proper name of the curaca, or ruler, who dominated this central valley on behalf of the Inca Empire during the arrival of the Spaniards. Talagante is situated 10 km northeast of Mapocho River.
Mapocho River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Chile
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Santiago Metropolitan, Chile, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mapocho River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر مابوتشو”
- Asturian: “Ríu Mapocho”
- Basque: “Mapocho ibaia”
- Bavarian: “Río Mapocho”
- Belarusian: “Мапоча”
- Catalan: “Mapocho”
- Catalan: “riu Mapocho”
- Cebuano: “Río Mapocho”
- Chinese: “馬普丘河”
- Czech: “Mapocho”
- Dutch: “Mapocho River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ماپوتشو”
- Estonian: “Mapocho”
- Finnish: “Mapocho”
- French: “Mapocho”
- French: “Río Mapocho”
- Galician: “Río Mapocho”
- Georgian: “მაპოჩო”
- German: “Río Mapocho”
- Hebrew: “נהר מפוצ’ו”
- Ido: “Fluvio Mapocho”
- Irish: “Abhainn Mapocho”
- Italian: “Mapocho”
- Mingrelian: “მაპოჩო”
- Northern Frisian: “Río Mapocho”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Río Mapocho”
- Polish: “Mapocho”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mapocho”
- Russian: “Мапочо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mapocho”
- Slovenian: “Mapocho”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماپوچو چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Mapocho”
- Spanish: “Río Mapocho”
- Swedish: “Mapochofloden”
- Turkish: “Mapocho Nehri”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mapocho”
- Welsh: “Afon Mapocho”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Mapocho River”. Photo: Christian Van Der Henst S., CC BY 2.0.