Fuerte Bulnes
Fuerte Bulnes is a Chilean fort located by the Strait of Magellan, 62 km south of Punta Arenas. It was founded in 1843 on a rocky hill at Punta Santa Ana, and named after President Manuel Bulnes Prieto.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Puerto del Hambre.
Puerto del Hambre
Locality
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Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, also known as Puerto del Hambre, is a historic settlement site at Buena Bay on the north shore of the Strait of Magellan approximately 58 km south of Punta Arenas in the Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, Patagonia, Chile.
Fuerte Bulnes
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: national monument of Chile
- Categories: cultural property, fort, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Punta Arenas, Magallanes Province, Region of Magallanes, Patagonia, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-53.63031° or 53° 37′ 49″ southLongitude
-70.9172° or 70° 55′ 2″ westElevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
37RF939M+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 548702549OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3897723Wikidata ID
Q2362268
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Fuerte Bulnes” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fuerte Bulnes”
- French: “fort Bulnes”
- French: “Fort Bulnes”
- French: “Fuerte Bulnes”
- German: “Fuerte Bulnes”
- Italian: “Fuerte Bulnes”
- Lithuanian: “Bulneso fortas”
- Slovenian: “Fuerte Bulnes”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Bulnes y Punta Santa Ana”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Bulnes”
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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 “Fuerte Bulnes”. Photo: Juan25, CC BY-SA 3.0.