Patagonia
Region of Magallanes
Magallanes Province

Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas is the regional capital of the Magallanes y Antártica Region, in , one of the southernmost cities in the world. It's the largest city in Chilean Patagonia, and has developed into a tourist center in far southern America rivaling in Argentina.
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  • Type: City with 123,000 residents
  • Description: Chilean city beside the Strait of Magellan
  • Also known as: “Magallanes”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Axe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Hgrobe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart Cathedral, Punta Arenas and Palacio José Montes.

Church
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Sacred Heart Cathedral Cathedral also called Punta Arenas Cathedral and Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, is a religious building of the Catholic Church which has a Renaissance tower that is dedicated to the order of the Salesians.

Castle
Photo: Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Historic building
Photo: Manxuc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic building.

Punta Arenas

Latitude
-53.1626° or 53° 9′ 45″ south
Longitude
-70.9078° or 70° 54′ 28″ west
Population
123,000
IATA airport code
PUQ
United Nations Location Code
CL PUQ
Open location code
37RFR3PR+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 181356942
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3874787
Wiki­data ID
Q51599
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zhuang—“Punta Arenas” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Achinese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Afrikaans: “Punta Arenas”
  • Amharic: “ፑንታ አሬናስ”
  • Arabic: “بونتا أريناس”
  • Aragonese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Armenian: “Պունտա Արենաս”
  • Asturian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Aymara: “Punta Arenas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Punta-Arenas”
  • Basque: “Punta Arenas”
  • Bavarian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Belarusian: “Пунта Арэнас”
  • Belarusian: “Пунта-Арэнас”
  • Bengali: “পোন্টা আরেনাস”
  • Breton: “Punta Arenas”
  • Bulgarian: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Catalan: “Punta Arenas”
  • Cebuano: “Punta Arenas (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Punta Arenas”
  • Chinese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Chinese: “潘他阿里拿斯”
  • Chinese: “蓬塔阿雷納斯”
  • Chinese: “蓬塔阿雷纳斯”
  • Croatian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Czech: “Punta Arenas”
  • Danish: “Punta Arenas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Punta Arenas”
  • Dinka: “Puntarenas”
  • Dutch: “Punta Arenas”
  • Esperanto: “Punta Arenas”
  • Estonian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Finnish: “Punta Arenas”
  • French: “Punta Arenas”
  • Galician: “Punta Arenas”
  • Georgian: “პუნტა-არენასი”
  • German: “Punta Arenas”
  • Greek: “Πούντα Αρένας”
  • Guarani: “Punta Arenas”
  • Gujarati: “પુન્ટા એરેનાસ”
  • Haitian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Hebrew: “פונטה ארנס”
  • Hindi: “पुन्टा एरेनास”
  • Hungarian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Icelandic: “Punta Arenas”
  • Ido: “Punta Arenas”
  • Igbo: “Punta Arenas”
  • Iloko: “Punta Arenas”
  • Indonesian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Irish: “Punta Arenas”
  • Italian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Japanese: “プンタ・アレーナス”
  • Japanese: “プンタアレナス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Punta Arenas”
  • Kannada: “ಪಂಟಾ ಅರೆನಾಸ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Korean: “푼타아레나스”
  • Latin: “Promontorium Arenosum”
  • Latvian: “Puntaarenasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Punta Arenasas”
  • Malagasy: “Punta Arenas”
  • Malay: “Punta Arenas”
  • Maltese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Marathi: “पंटा एरेनास”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Mingrelian: “პუნტა-არენასი”
  • Mongolian: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Northern Frisian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Punta Arenas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Punta Arenas”
  • Norwegian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Novial: “Punta Arenas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Punta Arenas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Punta Arenas”
  • Ossetian: “Пунтæ-Аренас”
  • Ossetian: “Пунта-Аренас”
  • Persian: “پونتا آرناس”
  • Piemontese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Polish: “Punta Arenas”
  • Portuguese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Quechua: “Punta Arenas”
  • Romanian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Russian: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Russian: “Пунта-Аренас”
  • Samogitian: “Ponta Arenasos”
  • Scots: “Punta Arenas”
  • Serbian: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Silesian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Sinhala: “පුන්ටා ඇරීනාස්”
  • Slovak: “Punta Arenas”
  • Slovenian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Spanish: “Punta Arenas”
  • Swedish: “Punta Arenas”
  • Swiss German: “Punta Arenas”
  • Tamil: “புண்டா அரேனஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Пунта-Аренас”
  • Telugu: “పుంటా ఎరీనాస్”
  • Thai: “ปุนตาอาเรนัส”
  • Turkish: “Punta Arenas”
  • Ukrainian: “Пунта-Аренас”
  • Urdu: “پونتا آریناس”
  • Uzbek: “Punta Arenas”
  • Venetian: “Punta Arenas”
  • Vietnamese: “Punta Arenas”
  • Vlaams: “Punta Arenas”
  • Volapük: “Punta Arenas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Punta Arenas”
  • Welsh: “Punta Arenas”
  • Western Mari: “Пунта Аренас”
  • Western Panjabi: “پونتا اریناس”
  • Wu Chinese: “蓬塔阿雷纳斯”
  • Yiddish: “פּונטא ארענאס”
  • Yue Chinese: “潘他阿里拿斯”
  • Zhuang: “Punta Arenas”
  • “Ponta Arenasos”
  • “Punta Arenas”

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