Colbún
Colbún is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. The commune has a population of over 17,000 inhabitants and covers an area of 2,900 km2, making it the province's largest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,930 residents
- Description: Chilean town and commune
- Also known as: “Colbun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colbún Hydroelectric Plant.
Colbún Hydroelectric Plant
Power station
Colbún Hydroelectric Plant is a hydroelectric power station in Maule Region, Chile. The plant uses water from Colbún Lake and produces 400 megawatts of electricity. The plant was built by ENDESA in 1985 and is run by Colbún S.A. Colbún Hydroelectric Plant is situated 3 km east of Colbún.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Panimávida and Rari.
Panimávida
Village
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Panimávida is a town in the Chilean commune of Colbún, Linares Province, Maule Region. Panimávida is well known in Chile for being one of the country's oldest hot springs and resort spas. Panimávida is situated 7 km south of Colbún.
Rari
Hamlet
Rari is a village in the Chilean municipality of Colbún, Linares Province, Maule Region located in the Andean foothills of this province. Rari is close to the well-known hot springs of Panimávida and Quinamávida and lies 20 km to the northeast of Linares, the provincial capital. Rari is situated 9 km south of Colbún.
Colbún
- Categories: commune of Chile and locality
- Location: Colbun, Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-35.69601° or 35° 41′ 46″ southLongitude
-71.40609° or 71° 24′ 22″ westPopulation
6,930Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL COBOpen location code
47PC8H3V+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 214218708OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Colbún” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كولبيون”
- Asturian: “Colbún”
- Catalan: “Colbún”
- Cebuano: “Colbun”
- Cebuano: “Colbún”
- Chinese: “Colbún”
- Chinese: “科尔文”
- Chinese: “科爾文”
- Dutch: “Colbún”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولبيون”
- French: “Colbún”
- German: “Colbún”
- Italian: “Colbún”
- Japanese: “コルブン”
- Korean: “콜분”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Colbún”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Colbún”
- Persian: “کولبون، شیلی”
- Persian: “کولبون”
- Polish: “Colbún”
- Portuguese: “Colbún”
- Romanian: “Colbún”
- Russian: “Кольбун”
- Spanish: “Colbun”
- Spanish: “Colbún”
- Swedish: “Colbun”
- Swedish: “Colbún”
- Ukrainian: “Кольбун”
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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 “Colbún”. Photo: tuguriodetom, CC BY 2.0.