Galvarino
Galvarino is a Chilean town and commune, part of Cautín Province, in the Araucanía Region. The town, named for the Mapuche warrior Galvarino, was founded on April 22, 1882 within the frame of the occupation of Araucanía by general Gregorio Urrutia, next to river Quillem as a fort of 2,500 m2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sergioa pov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 4,070 residents
- Description: town in Chile
- Also known as: “Galvarino, Chile”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hospital de Galvarino.
Galvarino
- Categories: commune of Chile and locality
- Location: Galvarino, Cautín Province, Araucanía, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-38.41112° or 38° 24′ 40″ southLongitude
-72.78125° or 72° 46′ 53″ westPopulation
4,070Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL GALOpen location code
47H9H6Q9+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 214203482OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Galvarino” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Galvarino”
- Basque: “Galvarino”
- Bulgarian: “Галварино”
- Catalan: “Galvarino”
- Cebuano: “Galvarino”
- Chinese: “Galvarino”
- Chinese: “加尔瓦里诺”
- Chinese: “加爾瓦里諾”
- Dutch: “Galvarino”
- French: “Galvarino”
- Galician: “Galvarino”
- German: “Galvarino”
- Italian: “Galvarino”
- Japanese: “ガルバリーノ”
- Korean: “갈바리노”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Galvarino”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Galvarino”
- Persian: “گالوارینو”
- Polish: “Galvarino”
- Portuguese: “Galvarino”
- Romanian: “Galvarino, Chile”
- Romanian: “Galvarino”
- Russian: “Гальварино”
- Spanish: “Galvarino”
- Swedish: “Galvarino”
- Ukrainian: “Гальварино”
- “Galvarino”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza Galvarino and Pérgola Itrofil Zomo.
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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 “Galvarino”. Photo: Sergioa pov, CC BY-SA 4.0.