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.
- Type: Industry
- Description: Chilean copper mine
- Also known as: “Codelco División El Teniente”, “إيل تينيينتي”, and “エル・テニエンテ”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Museum of the Great Copper Mining.
Museum of the Great Copper Mining
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fundición Caletones.
Fundición Caletones
Hamlet
El Teniente
- Categories: copper mine and mining and processing plant
- Location: Machali, Cachapoal Province, O’Higgins Region, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-34.09483° or 34° 5′ 41″ south
Longitude
-70.37113° or 70° 22′ 16″ west
Elevation
3,588 metres (11,772 feet)
Established
1905
Operator
Codelco
Open location code
47QFWJ4H+3G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“El Teniente” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إل تينيينتي”
- Cebuano: “Mineral El Teniente”
- Chinese: “埃尔特尼恩特铜矿”
- Czech: “El Teniente”
- Dutch: “El Teniente”
- French: “El Teniente”
- German: “El Teniente”
- Japanese: “エルテニエンテ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Teniente”
- Spanish: “El Teniente”
- Spanish: “Mina El Teniente”
- Swedish: “Mineral El Teniente”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Теньєнте”
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