Arauco
Arauco is a city and commune in Chile, located in Arauco Province in the Bío Bío Region. The meaning of Arauco means Chalky Water in Mapudungun. The region was a Moluche aillarehue.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,600 residents
- Description: city in Chile
- Also known as: “Arauco, Chile”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carampangue.
Carampangue
Village
Carampangue is a small town in Biobío Region, Chile. It is approximately 50 kilometers south of the regional capital, Concepción, and borders the towns of Arauco and Ramadillas. Carampangue is situated 7 km east of Arauco.
Arauco
- Categories: city in Chile, commune of Chile, and locality
- Location: Arauco, Arauco Province, Biobío, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-37.24625° or 37° 14′ 47″ southLongitude
-73.31764° or 73° 19′ 4″ westPopulation
17,600Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL ARAOpen location code
47J8QM3J+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2809403613OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Arauco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أراوكو”
- Basque: “Arauco”
- Catalan: “Arauco”
- Cebuano: “Arauco”
- Chinese: “Arauco”
- Chinese: “阿劳科”
- Chinese: “阿勞科”
- Dutch: “Arauco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اراوكو”
- French: “Arauco”
- German: “Arauco”
- Italian: “Arauco”
- Japanese: “アラウコ”
- Korean: “아라우코”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Arauco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Arauco”
- Persian: “آرائوکو”
- Polish: “Arauco”
- Portuguese: “Arauco”
- Romanian: “Arauco, Chile”
- Romanian: “Arauco”
- Russian: “Арауко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Arauco”
- Spanish: “Arauco”
- Swedish: “Arauco, Chile”
- Swedish: “Arauco”
- Ukrainian: “Арауко”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arauco, Chile”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arauco”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Arauco”. Photo: Feliaravena, CC BY-SA 4.0.