Huasco
Huasco is a Chilean city and commune, in the Huasco Province, Atacama Region. It is the central town of a mining district dominated by medium-scale mining.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,070 residents
- Description: Chilean city and commune
- Also known as: “Guasco”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Faro Monumental de Huasco and Planta de Pellets.
Faro Monumental de Huasco
Lighthouse
Photo: Catalinaclaudia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Faro Monumental de Huasco is a lighthouse.
Planta de Pellets
Planta de Pellets is a mineral processing and pellet-producing plant owned by Compañía Minera del Pacífico in Huasco, Atacama Region, Chile. The plant processes iron ore from the mine of Los Colorados in the Chilean Iron Belt. Planta de Pellets is situated 3½ km southwest of Huasco.Huasco
- Categories: commune of Chile, city in Chile, and locality
- Location: Huasco, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-28.46513° or 28° 27′ 55″ southLongitude
-71.2208° or 71° 13′ 15″ westPopulation
7,070Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL HSOOpen location code
573CGQMH+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1373671679OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Huasco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هواسكو”
- Asturian: “Huasco”
- Bashkir: “Уаско”
- Basque: “Huasco”
- Catalan: “Huasco”
- Cebuano: “Huasco”
- Chinese: “Huasco”
- Chinese: “瓦斯科”
- Dutch: “Huasco”
- French: “Huasco”
- German: “Huasco”
- Italian: “Huasco”
- Japanese: “ワスコ”
- Korean: “우아스코”
- Lithuanian: “Huaskas”
- Lithuanian: “Uaskas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Huasco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Huasco”
- Persian: “ووآسکو”
- Polish: “Huasco”
- Portuguese: “Huasco”
- Romanian: “Huasco”
- Russian: “Уаско”
- Spanish: “Huasco”
- Swedish: “Huasco”
- Turkish: “Huasco”
- Ukrainian: “Уаско”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Huasco”. Photo: valledelhuasco, CC BY-SA 3.0.