Southern Chile
Los Lagos
Chiloé Province

Castro

Castro is the capital of . It is a city of 42,000 people on the island's eastern coast, halfway between in the north and in the south, and is a convenient base for exploring the island of Chiloe.
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  • Type: City with 33,400 residents
  • Description: Chilean city
  • Also known as: “Castro, Chile”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gamboa Airport and Church of San Francisco.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Castro, a city on in the of . The airport runs along the shoreline just south of Gamboa, and south approach and departures are over the water.

Church
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , located on one side of the Plaza de Armas of Castro, , is the main Catholic church of capital. This 1912 building has a surface area of 1,404 m2, a width of 52 m and a height of 27 m.

Church
Photo: Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The —Spanish: Iglesia de Señora de Gracia de Nercón— is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a Church on the in Chiloé, .

Castro

Latitude
-42.4824° or 42° 28′ 57″ south
Longitude
-73.7643° or 73° 45′ 52″ west
Population
33,400
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
IATA airport code
WCA
United Nations Location Code
CL WCA
Open location code
4798G69P+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2972356933
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3896218
Wiki­data ID
Q3744
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Castro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Castro”
  • Arabic: “كاسترو”
  • Asturian: “Castro”
  • Basque: “Castro”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাস্ত্রো”
  • Bosnian: “Castro”
  • Catalan: “Castro”
  • Cebuano: “Castro”
  • Chavacano: “Castro”
  • Chinese: “Castro”
  • Chinese: “卡斯特罗市”
  • Czech: “Castro (Chile)”
  • Czech: “Castro”
  • Danish: “Castro”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Castro, Şili”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Castro”
  • Dutch: “Castro”
  • Finnish: “Castro”
  • French: “Castro”
  • Galician: “Castro, Chile”
  • Galician: “Castro”
  • German: “Castro”
  • Greek: “Κάστρο”
  • Guarani: “Castro”
  • Gujarati: “કેસ્ટ્રો”
  • Haitian: “Castro, Chili”
  • Haitian: “Castro”
  • Hebrew: “קסטרו”
  • Hindi: “कास्त्रो”
  • Indonesian: “Castro”
  • Italian: “Castro”
  • Japanese: “カストロ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಸ್ಟ್ರೋ”
  • Korean: “카스트로”
  • Ladino: “Kastro”
  • Latvian: “Kastro”
  • Lithuanian: “Kastras”
  • Malagasy: “Castro”
  • Malay: “Castro”
  • Marathi: “कॅस्ट्रो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Castro”
  • Northern Frisian: “Castro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castro”
  • Norwegian: “Castro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Castro”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Castro”
  • Ossetian: “Кастро”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Castro, Chile”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Castro”
  • Persian: “کاسترو، شیلی”
  • Persian: “کاسترو”
  • Piemontese: “Castro”
  • Polish: “Castro”
  • Portuguese: “Castro”
  • Romanian: “Castro, Chile”
  • Romanian: “Castro”
  • Russian: “Кастро”
  • Russian: “Кастру”
  • Serbian: “Кастро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Castro”
  • Sinhala: “කස්ට්රෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Castro”
  • Spanish: “Castro”
  • Swedish: “Castro”
  • Tamil: “காஸ்ட்ரோ”
  • Telugu: “క్యాస్ట్రో”
  • Thai: “คาสโตร”
  • Turkish: “Castro, Şili”
  • Turkish: “Castro”
  • Ukrainian: “Кастро”
  • Urdu: “کاسترو”
  • Vietnamese: “Castro”
  • Vlax Romani: “Castro”
  • Volapük: “Castro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Castro, Chile”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Castro”
  • Yiddish: “קאסטרא, טשילע”
  • Yiddish: “קאסטרא”

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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 “Castro”. Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.