Faro
Faro is a town in central Yukon, Canada, the home of the now abandoned Faro Mine. It was the largest open-pit lead–zinc mine in the world as well as a significant producer of silver and other natural resources.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 400 residents
- Description: town in Yukon, Canada
- Also known as: “Faro, Yukon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Faro Airport and Faro/Johnson Lake Water Aerodrome.
Faro Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Histif, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This is a list of airports in Yukon. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian territory of Yukon. Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System. Faro Airport is situated 2½ km south of Faro.
Faro/Johnson Lake Water Aerodrome
Aerodrome
This is a list of airports in Yukon. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian territory of Yukon. Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System. Faro/Johnson Lake Water Aerodrome is situated 3 km southwest of Faro.
Faro
- Categories: mine and locality
- Location: Faro, Yukon, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
62.22954° or 62° 13′ 46″ northLongitude
-133.35532° or 133° 21′ 19″ westPopulation
400Elevation
898 metres (2,946 feet)IATA airport code
ZFAUnited Nations Location Code
CA ZFAOpen location code
94J86JHV+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 2668706359OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5951659Wikidata ID
Q1001646
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Faro” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Faro”
- Chinese: “法羅”
- Dutch: “Faro”
- French: “Faro”
- German: “Faro”
- Indonesian: “Faro, Yukon”
- Indonesian: “Faro”
- Italian: “Faro”
- Japanese: “ファロ”
- Kalaallisut: “Faro”
- Lithuanian: “Faras (Kanada)”
- Lithuanian: “Faras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faro”
- Norwegian: “Faro”
- Persian: “فارو، یوکان”
- Persian: “فارو”
- Polish: “Faro”
- Portuguese: “Faro”
- Russian: “Фаро”
- Scots: “Faro, Yukon”
- Scots: “Faro”
- Spanish: “Faro”
- Swedish: “Faro, Yukon”
- Swedish: “Faro”
- Ukrainian: “Фаро”
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