Lirquén
Lirquén is a town located in the Biobío Region of central Chile. It is located along the Pacific Ocean and its economy is partly based on fishing. The town has a population of around 20,000 people.
Lirquén
- Type: Suburb
- Description: port town in Chile
- Category: locality
- Location: Penco, Concepción Province, Biobío, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-36.7127° or 36° 42′ 46″ south
Longitude
-72.97668° or 72° 58′ 36″ west
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CL LQN
Open location code
47M972PF+W8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Lirquén” goes by many names.
- French: “lirquen”
- French: “Lirquen”
- Mapudungun: “Lirken”
- Mapudungun: “liwen”
- Mapudungun: “llidken”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lirquén”
- Portuguese: “Lirquén”
- Spanish: “ciudad de Lirquén”
- Spanish: “Lirquén (Chile)”
- Spanish: “Lirquén (Concepción)”
- Spanish: “Lirquén (Gran Concepción)”
- Spanish: “Lirquén (Penco)”
- Spanish: “Lirquén-Penco”
- Spanish: “Lirquén”
- Spanish: “Penco-Lirquén”
- Spanish: “puerto de Lirquén”
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