Fort Tauco
Fort Tauco is a coastal battery built in 1779 in the commune of Chonchi, Province of Chiloe in southern Chile.Photo: Ppn87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Monument
- Description: Fuerte Tauco
- Also known as: “Fortin Tauco”, “Fuerte Tauco”, and “fuerte-tauco”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ichuac and Castro.
Ichuac
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ichuac is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km south of Fort Tauco.
Castro
Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castro is the capital of Chiloé Island. It is a city of 42,000 people on the island's eastern coast, halfway between Ancud in the north and Quellon in the south, and is a convenient base for exploring the island of Chiloe.
Fort Tauco
- Category: historic site
- Location: Los Lagos, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.55202° or 42° 33′ 7″ southLongitude
-73.75114° or 73° 45′ 4″ westOpen location code
4798C6XX+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 6895658586OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q23763107
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Fort Tauco” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Fuerte Tauco”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Laguna Quinched and Isla Linlinao.
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