El Teniente
El Teniente is the world's largest underground copper mine, located in the Andes Mountains of central Chile at an elevation of 2,300 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Industry
- Description: Chilean copper mine
- Also known as: “Codelco División El Teniente”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of the Great Copper Mining.
Museum of the Great Copper Mining
Museum
Photo: Tae Sandoval Murgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Museum of the Great Copper Mining is situated 1½ km northwest of El Teniente.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fundición Caletones.
Fundición Caletones
Hamlet
Photo: WeHaKa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fundición Caletones or simply Caletones is a copper smelter plant in the Andes of Central Chile in Chile's O'Higgins Region. The smelter is integrated with the nearby copper mine of El Teniente, and both are owned by Codelco. Fundición Caletones is situated 7 km west of El Teniente.
El Teniente
- Categories: copper mine and region
- Location: Machali, Cachapoal Province, O’Higgins Region, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-34.09483° or 34° 5′ 41″ southLongitude
-70.37113° or 70° 22′ 16″ westElevation
3,588 metres (11,772 feet)Inception
1905Operator
CodelcoOpen location code
47QFWJ4H+3GOpenStreetMap ID
way 355367015OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“El Teniente” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إل تينيينتي”
- Arabic: “إيل تينيينتي”
- Cebuano: “Mineral El Teniente”
- Chinese: “厄尔特尼恩特铜矿”
- Dutch: “El Teniente”
- French: “El Teniente”
- German: “El Teniente”
- Japanese: “エル・テニエンテ”
- Japanese: “エルテニエンテ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Teniente”
- Spanish: “El Teniente”
- Spanish: “Mina El Teniente”
- Swedish: “Mineral El Teniente”
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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 “El Teniente”. Photo: Gbarindelli, CC BY-SA 4.0.