Chaitén
Chaitén is a volcanic caldera 3 kilometres in diameter, 17 kilometres west of the elongated ice-capped Michinmahuida volcano and 10 kilometres northeast of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,122 metres
- Description: mountain in Palena Province, Chile
- Also known as: “Chaite” and “Chaité”
Chaitén
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Los Lagos, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.83708° or 42° 50′ 14″ southLongitude
-72.64778° or 72° 38′ 52″ westElevation
1,122 metres (3,681 feet)Open location code
47995972+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 267295885OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Chaitén from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Chaitén” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chaitén”
- Catalan: “Chaitén”
- Cebuano: “Volcán Chaitén”
- Chinese: “Chaitén hóe-soaⁿ”
- Chinese: “柴滕火山”
- Chinese: “沙伊頓火山”
- Czech: “Chaitén”
- Danish: “Chaitén”
- Dutch: “Chaitén”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشايت”
- Finnish: “Chaiten”
- Finnish: “Chaitén”
- French: “Chaiten”
- French: “Chaitén”
- French: “Volcan Chaiten”
- French: “Volcan Chaitén”
- Galician: “Volcán Chaitén”
- Georgian: “ჩაიტენი”
- German: “Chaitén”
- German: “Vulkan Chaitén”
- Greek: “Τσαϊτέν”
- Indonesian: “Chaite”
- Indonesian: “Chaitén (gunung berapi)”
- Indonesian: “Chaitén”
- Italian: “Chaitén”
- Italian: “Monte Chaitén”
- Japanese: “チャイテン山”
- Kölsch: “Chaitén”
- Korean: “차이텐 화산”
- Ladin: “Chaité”
- Lithuanian: “Čaiteno ugnikalnis”
- Malay: “Chaiten”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chaitén hóe-soaⁿ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaiten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaitén”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vulkanen Chaitén”
- Norwegian: “Chaitén”
- Persian: “چایتن (آتشفشان)”
- Persian: “چایتن”
- Polish: “Chaitén”
- Portuguese: “Chaitén”
- Portuguese: “Vulcão Chaitén”
- Russian: “Чайтен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chaitén (vulkan)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chaitén”
- Slovak: “Chaitén”
- Spanish: “Chaiten”
- Spanish: “Chaitén”
- Spanish: “Volcan Chaiten”
- Spanish: “Volcan Chaitén”
- Spanish: “Volcán Chaiten”
- Spanish: “Volcán Chaitén”
- Swedish: “Chaitén”
- Ukrainian: “Чайтен”
- Venetian: “Chaitén”
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