Perquenco
Perquenco is a town and commune in the Cautín Province of southern Chile's Araucanía Region. The town was declared capital of the unrecognized Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia by Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, but soon after it was occupied by Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez who was in charge of the Chilean occupation of the Araucanía.- Type: Locality
- Description: town and commune in Chile
- Also known as: “Perquen Ko”
Perquenco
- Categories: commune of Chile and town
- Location: Cautín Province, Araucanía, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-38.4283° or 38° 25′ 42″ south
Longitude
-72.4365° or 72° 26′ 12″ west
Elevation
261 metres (856 feet)
Open location code
47H9HHC7+M9
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Perquenco” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Perquenco”
- Basque: “Perquenco”
- Catalan: “Perquenco”
- Cebuano: “Perquenco”
- Chinese: “佩尔琴科”
- Chinese: “佩爾琴科”
- Dutch: “Perquenco”
- French: “Perquenco”
- German: “Perquenco”
- Irish: “Perquenco”
- Italian: “Perquenco”
- Japanese: “ペルケンコ”
- Korean: “페르켕코”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Perquenco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Perquenco”
- Persian: “پرکنکو”
- Polish: “Perquenco”
- Portuguese: “Perquenco”
- Romanian: “Perquenco”
- Russian: “Перкенко”
- Spanish: “Perquenco”
- Swedish: “Perquenco”
- Turkish: “Perquenco”
- Ukrainian: “Перкенко”
- Urdu: “پیرکینکو”
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