Arqueros

Arqueros is a mining district in the Chilean Norte Chico region. It is located 7 km northwest of the Talcuna copper district. The discovery of silver at Arqueros in the 1830s led the Norte Chico mountains north of La Serena to be exhaustively prospected sparkling the Chilean silver rush in the 1830s and 1840s.

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Arqueros

Type: Mine
Description: mining district in Chile
Category: industry
Location: La Serena, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude

-29.83333° or 29° 50′ south

Longitude

-70.93333° or 70° 56′ west

Elevation

1,417 metres (4,649 feet)

Open location code

572F5388+MM

GeoNames ID

3899317

Wikidata ID

Q16532756

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Arqueros” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Arqueros”
French: “Arqueros”
Spanish: “Arqueros”
Swedish: “Arqueros”

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Arqueros”. Photo: Arturo Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 3.0.