Northern Chile
Arica y Parinacota Region
Arica Province

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.
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  • Type: City with 202,000 residents
  • Description: city of Chile
  • Also known as: “Arica (1540–1929)”, “Arica (Peru)”, “Arica, Peru”, “Peruvian Arica”, and “San Márcos de Arica”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Casa Bolognesi and Museo Histórico y de Armas del Morro de Arica.

Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , also known as the Casa de la Respuesta, is a historical building owned by the Peruvian State located in Arica, . It is the site of a meeting that preceded the Battle of Arica during the War of the Pacific.

Museum
Photo: Juan Villalobos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Peak
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a steep hill located in the city of Arica. Its height is 139 metres above sea level. It was the last bulwark of defense for the Peruvian troops who garrisoned the city during the War of the Pacific.

Arica

Latitude
-18.4785° or 18° 28′ 43″ south
Longitude
-70.3211° or 70° 19′ 16″ west
Population
202,000
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
IATA airport code
ARI
United Nations Location Code
CL ARI
Open location code
57HFGMCH+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3444930202
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3899361
Wiki­data ID
Q2203
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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”
  • 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: “Arica”
  • Chinese: “阿列卡”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “אריקה”
  • Hindi: “एरिका”
  • Hungarian: “Arica”
  • Icelandic: “Arica”
  • Ido: “Arica”
  • Iloko: “Arica”
  • Indonesian: “Arica, Chili”
  • Indonesian: “Arica”
  • Irish: “Arica”
  • Italian: “Arica”
  • Japanese: “アリカ”
  • Kabyle: “Arica”
  • Kalaallisut: “Arica”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಿಕಾ”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Арикæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰੀਕਾ”
  • Persian: “آریکا”
  • Piemontese: “Arica”
  • Polish: “Arica”
  • Portuguese: “Arica”
  • Pushto: “آریکا”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Arica (1540-1929)”
  • Spanish: “Arica peruana”
  • Spanish: “Arica”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera”
  • Swahili: “Arica”
  • Swedish: “Arica”
  • Swiss German: “Arica”
  • Tamil: “அரிக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Арика”
  • Telugu: “ఆరిక”
  • Thai: “อาริกา”
  • Thai: “อาริก้า”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Arica”
  • Turkish: “Arica”
  • Ukrainian: “Арика”
  • Ukrainian: “Аріка”
  • Urdu: “آریکا”
  • Urdu: “اریکا”
  • 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”
  • “Arėka”
  • “Arica”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Arica”. Photo: Till.niermann, CC BY-SA 3.0.