Chile
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Santiago province

Peñalolén

Peñalolén is a commune in , . It was founded on 15 November 1984. It is one of the most segregated areas of Santiago with Pre-Cordillera areas such as Las Pircas, Casablanca, and Penalolen Alto having a large upper-middle to high income population similar to or .
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  • Type: Suburb with 242,000 residents
  • Description: commune of Chile
  • Also known as: “Penalolen” and “Peñalolen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Villa Grimaldi and Eulogio Sánchez Airport.

Park
Photo: Fotosaereas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is considered the most important of DINA's many complexes that were used for the interrogation and torture of political prisoners during the governance of Augusto Pinochet.

Aerodrome
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, also known as Tobalaba Airport, is an airport in , an eastern suburb of , . It is two-thirds owned by the Club Aéreo de Santiago and one-third owned by the Club Aéreo de Carabineros de Chile.

Stadium
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The , also known as the Santiago Velodrome, is an indoor cycling track located within Peñalolén Park in the Peñalolén district of , Chile.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ñuñoa and La Reina.

Suburb
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is a commune located in the northeastern sector of Santiago, the capital of . Bordered by to the north and west, to the south, and Peñalolén and to the east, it has an area of 16.9 km². is situated 5 km northwest of Peñalolén.

Suburb
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is a commune of located in , , created in 1963 from an eastern portion of the commune. is situated 4 km north of Peñalolén.

Suburb
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is a commune of located in the central-eastern part of the area, bordered by the communes of to the north, to the west, Peñalolén to the east and to the south. is situated 5 km west of Peñalolén.

Peñalolén

Latitude
-33.4766° or 33° 28′ 36″ south
Longitude
-70.5418° or 70° 32′ 31″ west
Population
242,000
Elevation
803 metres (2,635 feet)
Open location code
47RFGFF5+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2395864601
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8261413
Wiki­data ID
Q51100
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Peñalolén” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بينالولين”
  • Basque: “Peñalolén”
  • Catalan: “Peñalolén”
  • Cebuano: “Peñalolen”
  • Chinese: “Peñalolén”
  • Chinese: “佩尼亚洛伦”
  • Chinese: “佩尼亞洛倫”
  • Dutch: “Peñalolén”
  • French: “Peñalolén”
  • Georgian: “პენიალოლენი”
  • German: “Peñalolen”
  • German: “Peñalolén”
  • Italian: “Peñalolén”
  • Japanese: “ペニャロレン”
  • Korean: “페냘롤렌”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Peñalolén”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peñalolén”
  • Persian: “پنیالولن”
  • Portuguese: “Peñalolén”
  • Romanian: “Peñalolén”
  • Russian: “Пеньялолен”
  • Scots: “Peñalolén”
  • Serbian: “Пењалолен”
  • Spanish: “Peñalolen”
  • Spanish: “Peñalolén”
  • Swedish: “Peñalolén”
  • Turkish: “Peñalolén”
  • Ukrainian: “Пеньялолен”
  • Volapük: “Peñalolén”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peñalolén”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Registro Civil Peñalolén and Ilustre Municipalidad de Peñalolén.

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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 “Peñalolén”. Photo: Rec79, CC BY-SA 3.0.