Coquimbo Region
Elqui Province
Vicuña

Gabriela Mistral International Dark Skies Sanctuary

DarkSky International, formerly the International Dark-Sky Association, is a United States–based nonprofit organization incorporated in 1988 by founders David Crawford, a professional astronomer, and Tim Hunter, a physician and amateur astronomer.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: environmental organization
  • Also known as: “Dark Sky Association”, “DarkSky”, “DarkSky International”, “IDA”, “International Dark Sky Place”, “International Dark-sky Association Inc.”, “Santuario Internacional de Cielos Oscuros Gabriela Mistral”, and “The International Dark-sky Association Inc.”
  • Address: Vicuña

Gabriela Mistral International Dark Skies Sanctuary

Latitude
-30.1684° or 30° 10′ 6″ south
Longitude
-70.80474° or 70° 48′ 17″ west
Inception
August 10th, 2015
Operator
Asociación de Universidades para la Investigación en Astronomía (AURA) en el Valle de Elqui
Open location code
47XFR5JW+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9630359034
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q826992
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Gabriela Mistral International Dark Skies Sanctuary” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجمعية الدولية للسماء المظلمة”
  • Catalan: “International Dark-Sky Association”
  • Catalan: “lloc estrellat internacional”
  • Chinese: “国际暗天协会”
  • Chinese: “國際暗天協會”
  • Chinese: “國際黑暗天空協會”
  • Croatian: “Međunarodna udruga za tamno nebo”
  • Dutch: “International Dark-Sky Association”
  • Esperanto: “Internacia Asocio por Malluma Ĉielo”
  • Esperanto: “Internacia Mallumĉielejo”
  • French: “Association internationale Dark Sky”
  • French: “International Dark Sky Place”
  • German: “Dark Sky Association”
  • German: “DarkSky International”
  • German: “IDA”
  • German: “International Dark-Sky Association”
  • Hebrew: “התאחדות הבינלאומית לחשכת הרקיע”
  • Hungarian: “Csillagoségbolt-park”
  • Italian: “International Dark-Sky Association”
  • Japanese: “国際ダークスカイ協会”
  • Korean: “국제 어두운 밤하늘 협회”
  • Malayalam: “ഇന്റർനാഷണൽ ഡാർക്ക് സ്കൈ അസോസിയേഷൻ”
  • Persian: “انجمن بین‌المللی آسمان تاریک”
  • Slovenian: “IDA”
  • Slovenian: “International Dark-Sky Association”
  • Slovenian: “Mednarodna zveza za temno nebo”
  • Slovenian: “mednarodni kraj temnega neba”
  • Spanish: “DarkSky International”
  • Spanish: “International Dark-Sky Association”
  • Turkish: “DarkSky International”

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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 Wikipedia page “Gabriela Mistral International Dark Skies Sanctuary”. Photo: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0.