Chuquicamata
Chuquicamata is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m above sea level.
- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,500 metres (8,200 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code QUI
- Description: Chilean mine of copper
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chuquicamata.
Chuquicamata
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Latitude
-22.31581° or 22° 18′ 57″ south
Longitude
-68.92898° or 68° 55′ 44″ west
UN/LOCODE
CL CHU
Open location code
579HM3MC+MC
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Chuquicamata” goes by many names.
ChuquicamataAfrikaans
تشوكويكاماتاArabic
ÇukikamataAzerbaijani
ChuquicamataBasque
ЧукикаматаBulgarian
ChuquicamataCatalan
Chuquicamata Copper MineCebuano
丘基卡馬塔Chinese
丘基卡马塔Chinese
ChuquicamataCroatian
Důl ChuquicamataCzech
ChuquicamataDanish
ChuquicamataDimli (individual language)
ChuquicamataDutch
ChuquicamataEsperanto
צ’וקיקמטהHebrew
ChuquicamataIndonesian
ChuquicamataItalian
チュキカマタJapanese
추키카마타Korean
ČukikamataLithuanian
ЧукикаматаMacedonian
ChuquicamataNorwegian
ChuquicamataNorwegian Bokmål
ChuquicamataPolish
ЧукикаматаRussian
ChuquicamataSerbo-Croatian
ChuquicamataSlovenian
ChuquicamataSwedish
ChuquicamataTurkish
ЧукікаматаUkrainian
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