Arica

Arica is a seaside resort town of 223,000 in . It's quiet, relaxed and safe, with several nice beaches and sun virtually every day of the year.
  • City with 202,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 80 metres (262 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ARI
  • Description: city of Chile
  • Also known as
    “Arica (1540–1929)”
    “Arica (Peru)”
    “Peruvian Arica”
    “San Márcos de Arica”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Casa Bolognesi and Museo Histórico y de Armas del Morro de Arica.
is a headland in Arica, Chile.

Arica

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Latitude
-18.4785° or 18° 28′ 43″ south
Longitude
-70.3211° or 70° 19′ 16″ west
UN/LOCODE
CL ARI
Open location code
57HFGMCH+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Arica” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Арика”
  • Achinese: “Arica”
  • Afrikaans: “Arica”
  • Albanian: “Arica”
  • Amharic: “አሪካ”
  • Arabic: “أريكا”
  • Armenian: “Արիկա”
  • Asturian: “Arica”
  • Aymara: “Arica”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arika”
  • Balinese: “Arica”
  • Basque: “Arica”
  • Bavarian: “Arica”
  • Belarusian: “Арыка”
  • Bengali: “আরিকা”
  • Breton: “Arica”
  • Bulgarian: “Арика”
  • Catalan: “Arica”
  • Cebuano: “Arica (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Arica”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەریکا”
  • Chavacano: “Arica”
  • Chinese: “阿里卡”
  • Croatian: “Arica”
  • Czech: “Arica”
  • Danish: “Arica”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Arica”
  • Dinka: “Arica”
  • Dutch: “Arica”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أريكا”
  • Esperanto: “Arica”
  • Estonian: “Arica”
  • Finnish: “Arica”
  • French: “Arica”
  • Galician: “Arica”
  • Georgian: “არიკა”
  • German: “Arica”
  • Greek: “Αρίκα”
  • Guarani: “Arica”
  • Gujarati: “એરિકા”
  • Haitian: “Arica”
  • Hausa: “Arica”
  • Hebrew: “אריקה”
  • Hindi: “अरिका”
  • Hindi: “एरिका”
  • Hungarian: “Arica”
  • Icelandic: “Arica”
  • Ido: “Arica”
  • Iloko: “Arica”
  • Indonesian: “Arica, Chili”
  • Indonesian: “Arica”
  • Irish: “Arica”
  • Italian: “Arica”
  • Japanese: “アリカ”
  • Javanese: “Arica”
  • Kabyle: “Arica”
  • Kalaallisut: “Arica”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಿಕಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Арика”
  • Kirghiz: “Арика”
  • Korean: “아리카”
  • Ladino: “Arica”
  • Ladino: “Arika”
  • Latin: “Arica”
  • Latvian: “Arika”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿里卡”
  • Lithuanian: “Arika”
  • Malay: “Arica”
  • Maltese: “Arica”
  • Marathi: “एरिका”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arica”
  • Mingrelian: “არიკა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arica”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arica”
  • Norwegian: “Arica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arica”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Arica”
  • Oromo: “Arica”
  • Ossetian: “Арикæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰੀਕਾ”
  • Persian: “آریکا”
  • Piemontese: “Arica”
  • Polish: “Arica”
  • Portuguese: “Arica”
  • Pushto: “آریکا”
  • Pushto: “اریکا”
  • Quechua: “Arica”
  • Quechua: “Arika”
  • Romanian: “Arica, Chile”
  • Romanian: “Arica”
  • Romansh: “Arica”
  • Russian: “Арика”
  • Samogitian: “Arėka”
  • Scots: “Arica”
  • Serbian: “Арика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arica”
  • Sindhi: “اريڪا”
  • Sinhala: “අරිකා”
  • Slovak: “Arica”
  • Slovenian: “Arica”
  • Somali: “Arica”
  • Spanish: “Arica (1540-1929)”
  • Spanish: “Arica peruana”
  • Spanish: “Arica”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera”
  • Swahili: “Arica”
  • Swedish: “Arica”
  • Swiss German: “Arica”
  • Tajik: “Арика”
  • Tamil: “அரிக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Арика”
  • Telugu: “ఆరిక”
  • Thai: “อาริกา”
  • Thai: “อาริก้า”
  • Turkish: “Arica”
  • Ukrainian: “Арика”
  • Ukrainian: “Аріка”
  • Urdu: “آریکا”
  • Urdu: “اریکا”
  • Uzbek: “Arika”
  • Venetian: “Arica”
  • Vietnamese: “Arica”
  • Volapük: “Arica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arica, Chile”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arica”
  • Western Panjabi: “آریکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “اریسا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿里卡”
  • Yiddish: “אריקא”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿列卡”

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