General Carrera Lake
General Carrera Lake or Lake Buenos Aires is a deep lake located in Patagonia and shared by Argentina and Chile. Both names are internationally accepted, while the autochthonous name of the lake is Chelenko, which means "stormy waters" in Aonikenk.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Patagonia, between Argentina and Chile
- Also known as: “Buenos Aires”, “Buenos Aires Lake”, “Buenos Aires-tó”, “Buenos Aires/General Carrera lakua”, “Búenos Aíresvatn”, “Buenosairesa ezers”, “Chelenko Lake”, “Cheneral Karera”, “General Carrera”, “General Carrera järv”, “Ģenerāļa Karreras ezers”, “Heneralkarreras ezers”, “Jezero Buenos Aires”, “Jezero General Carrera”, “Jezioro Buenos Aires”, “Lac Buenos Aires”, “Lac General Carrera”, “Lago Buenos Aires (sjö i Chile)”, “Lago Buenos Aires General Carrera”, “Lago Buenos Aires y General Carrera”, “Lago Chelenko”, “Lake Buenos Aires”, “Lake General Carrera”, “Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires”, “Llac Buenos Aires”, “Хенерал Каррера”, “Хенераль-Карэра”, “אגם בואנוס איירס”, “ブエノス・アイレス湖”, “ブエノスアイレス湖”, “ヘネラル・カレラ湖”, “ヘネラルカレーラ湖”, “ヘネラルカレラ湖”, “卡雷拉将军湖”, and “卡雷拉將軍湖”
General Carrera Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Chile, South America
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Latitude
-46.5° or 46° 30′ south
Longitude
-72° or 72° west
Elevation
202 metres (663 feet)
Open location code
475CG222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“General Carrera Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة كاريرا العامة”
- Armenian: “Բուենոս Այրես”
- Basque: “Buenos Aires/General Carrera aintzira”
- Bavarian: “Lago Buenos Aires / Lago General Carrera”
- Bavarian: “Lago Buenos Aires/Lago General Carrera”
- Belarusian: “Буэнас-Айрэс”
- Bulgarian: “Буенос Айрес (езеро)”
- Bulgarian: “Буенос Айрес”
- Catalan: “llac General Carrera”
- Catalan: “Llac General Carrera”
- Cebuano: “Lago Buenos Aires”
- Chinese: “布宜諾斯艾利斯湖”
- Chinese: “布宜诺斯艾利斯湖/卡雷拉將軍湖”
- Chinese: “布宜诺斯艾利斯湖”
- Chuvash: “Буэнос-Айрес”
- Croatian: “General Carrera/Buenos Aires”
- Croatian: “Jezero General Carrera/Buenos Aires”
- Czech: “Buenos Aires / General Carrera”
- Czech: “Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Danish: “Buenos Aires-søen”
- Dutch: “Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كاريرا العامه”
- Esperanto: “Lago Bonaero”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Bonaero”
- Estonian: “Buenos Airese järv”
- French: “lac Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- French: “Lac Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Georgian: “ბუენოს-აირესი”
- Georgian: “ბუენოს-აირესის ტბა”
- German: “Lago Buenos Aires / Lago General Carrera”
- German: “Lago Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Χενεράλ Καρέρα/Μπουένος Άιρες”
- Hausa: “Janar Carrera Lake”
- Hebrew: “אגם חנרל קאררה”
- Hungarian: “General Carrera-tó”
- Icelandic: “Búenos Aíres-vatn”
- Italian: “Lago Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Italian: “lago Buenos Aires”
- Japanese: “ヘネラル・カレーラ湖”
- Korean: “헤네랄카레라호”
- Latvian: “Buenosairesas ezers”
- Latvian: “Buenosairess”
- Lithuanian: “Buenos Airės”
- Lithuanian: “Buenos Airių ežeras”
- Mingrelian: “ხენერალ-კარერა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lago Buenos Aires / General Carrera”
- Norwegian: “Lago Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Polish: “Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Portuguese: “Lago Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Romanian: “Lago General Carrera”
- Romansh: “Lai General Carrera”
- Russian: “Буэнос-Айрес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “General Carrera / Buenos Aires”
- Serbo-Croatian: “General Carrera/Buenos Aires”
- Spanish: “Lago Buenos Aires/General Carrera”
- Swedish: “Lago Buenos Aires”
- Swedish: “Lago General Carrera/Lago Buenos Aires”
- Turkish: “General Carrera Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Буенос-Айрес”
- Venetian: “lago Buenos Aires”
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