Chaitén
Chaitén is in Los Lagos region in the south of Chile. The town has an important transportation hub on the Carretera Austral with major ferry services to Chiloé and Puerto Montt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,640 residents
- Description: Chilean commune
- Also known as: “Chaiten”
Chaitén
- Categories: commune of Chile and locality
- Location: Palena Province, Los Lagos, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-42.9165° or 42° 54′ 60″ southLongitude
-72.7084° or 72° 42′ 30″ westPopulation
1,640Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
WCHUnited Nations Location Code
CL WCHOpen location code
479937MR+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 214215709OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3895642Wikidata ID
Q3759
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Chaitén” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شايتن”
- Asturian: “Chaitén”
- Basque: “Chaitén”
- Breton: “Chaitén”
- Catalan: “Chaitén”
- Cebuano: “Chaiten”
- Cebuano: “Chaitén”
- Chinese: “Chaitén”
- Chinese: “柴滕”
- Czech: “Chaitén”
- Dutch: “Chaitén”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شايتن”
- French: “Chaitén”
- German: “Chaitén”
- Italian: “Chaitén”
- Japanese: “チャイテン”
- Kölsch: “Chaitén”
- Korean: “차이텐”
- Lithuanian: “Čaitenas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chaitén”
- Northern Frisian: “Chaitén”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaitén”
- Norwegian: “Chaitén”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chaitén”
- Persian: “چایتن، شیلی”
- Persian: “چایتن”
- Polish: “Chaitén”
- Portuguese: “Chaitén”
- Romanian: “Chaitén”
- Russian: “Чайтен”
- Slovak: “Chaitén”
- Spanish: “Chaiten”
- Spanish: “Chaitén”
- Swedish: “Chaiten”
- Swedish: “Chaitén”
- Ukrainian: “Чайтен”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chaitén”
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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 “Chaitén”. Photo: Hosteria Outsider, CC BY-SA 3.0.