Carahue
Carahue is a city and commune in southern Chile. It is located 56 km west of Temuco, on the northern bank of the Imperial River. The city was founded as La Imperial on April 16, 1552 by Pedro de Valdivia.
- Type: Town with 11,300 residents
- Description: city and commune in southern Chile
- Also known as: “Carahuo” and “La Antigua Imperial”
Carahue
- Categories: commune of Chile, city in Chile, and locality
- Location: Carahue, Cautín Province, Araucanía, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-38.71158° or 38° 42′ 42″ south
Longitude
-73.16517° or 73° 9′ 55″ west
Population
11,300
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CL CAR
Open location code
47H87RQM+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Carahue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاراهيو”
- Basque: “Carahue”
- Catalan: “Carahue”
- Cebuano: “Carahue”
- Chinese: “卡拉韋”
- Chinese: “卡拉韦”
- Dutch: “Carahue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاراهو”
- French: “Carahue”
- German: “Carahue”
- Hebrew: “קראווה”
- Italian: “Carahue”
- Japanese: “カラウエ”
- Korean: “카라우에”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Carahue”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Carahue”
- Polish: “Carahue”
- Portuguese: “Carahue”
- Romanian: “Carahue”
- Russian: “Карауэ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carahue”
- Spanish: “Carahue”
- Swedish: “Carahue”
- Turkish: “Carahue”
- Ukrainian: “Карауе”
- Urdu: “کاراہوئے”
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