Churchill Falls
Churchill Falls in Labrador is one of the last company towns in Atlantic Canada. Its population of nearly 700 work for the Churchill Dam, a 5.4-gigawatt hydroelectric generating station, the third-largest hydroelectric station in North America.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Martin Lopatka, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 650 residents
- Description: locality in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Also known as: “Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Churchill Falls Generating Station.
Churchill Falls Generating Station
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Churchill Falls Generating Station is a hydroelectric underground power station in Labrador, Canada. At 5,428 MW, it is the sixteenth largest in the world, and the second-largest in Canada, after the Robert-Bourassa generating station in northwestern Quebec.
Churchill Falls
- Category: locality
- Location: Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5329° or 53° 31′ 58″ northLongitude
-64.01° or 64° 0′ 36″ westPopulation
650Elevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)IATA airport code
ZUMUnited Nations Location Code
CA ZUMOpen location code
975QGXMR+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 1958909315OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6957320Wikidata ID
Q22500975
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Churchill Falls” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Churchill Falls”
- Dutch: “Churchill Falls”
- French: “Churchill Falls”
- Persian: “چرچهیل فالز، نیوفاندلند و لیبرادور”
- Swedish: “Churchill Falls”
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