South America

Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego is a large archipelago off the south of , divided between and by the 1881 Treaty. The archipelago is a panoply of pristine, mostly uninhabited and innaccesible islands, and includes the famed Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of the archipelago.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Ushuaia and Río Grande.

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Straddling the Beagle Strait, is the largest city in Tierra del Fuego island, with about 75,000 residents. It is 3,260 km south of .

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is the economic center of Argentine Tierra del Fuego. It's on the island's north coast and had a population of 67,038 in 2010.

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is a large ski resort in Tierra del Fuego, . As the world's southernmost ski resort, the mountain experiences colder temperatures and a longer ski season than other southern hemisphere resorts.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tierra del Fuego

Latitude of center
-54° or 54° south
Longitude of center
-70° or 70° west
Population
195,000
Elevation
170 metres (558 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3834451
Wiki­data ID
Q82601
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tierra del Fuego” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vuurland”
  • Albanian: “Toka e Zjarrtë”
  • Arabic: “أرض النار”
  • Arabic: “تييرا ديل فويغو”
  • Armenian: “Հրո երկիր”
  • Asturian: “Tierra del Fueu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Odlu Torpaq”
  • Bashkir: “Утлы Ер”
  • Basque: “Suaren Lurraldea”
  • Basque: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Belarusian: “Вогненая Зямля”
  • Belarusian: “Вогненная Зямля”
  • Bengali: “তিয়েরা দেল ফুয়েগো”
  • Bengali: “তিয়ের্‌রা দেল ফুয়েগো”
  • Bosnian: “Ognjena zemlja”
  • Breton: “Enezeg Douar an Tan”
  • Breton: “Enezeg Tierra del Fuego”
  • Breton: “Inizi Douar an Tan”
  • Bulgarian: “Огнена земя”
  • Catalan: “Terra de Foc”
  • Catalan: “Terra del Foc”
  • Catalan: “Terra Magellanica”
  • Catalan: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Cebuano: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Chinese: “火地島”
  • Chinese: “火地羣島”
  • Chinese: “火地群岛”
  • Chinese: “火地群島”
  • Croatian: “Ognjena zemlja”
  • Czech: “Ohňová země”
  • Czech: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Danish: “Ildlandet”
  • Danish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Dutch: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Dutch: “Vuurland”
  • Esperanto: “Fajrolando”
  • Esperanto: “Fuegio”
  • Esperanto: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Estonian: “Tulemaa saared”
  • Estonian: “Tulemaa saarestik”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Finnish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Finnish: “Tulimaa”
  • French: “Terre de Feu”
  • French: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago de Terra de Fogo”
  • Galician: “Terra de Fogo”
  • Georgian: “ცეცხლოვანი მიწის არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “Feuerland”
  • Greek: “Γη του Πυρός”
  • Hebrew: “ארץ האש”
  • Hebrew: “טיירה דל פואגו”
  • Hindi: “तिएर्रा देल फ़ुएगो”
  • Hungarian: “Tűzföld”
  • Icelandic: “Eldland”
  • Icelandic: “Eldlandið”
  • Ido: “Tero di Fairo”
  • Indonesian: “Tanah Api”
  • Indonesian: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Irish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Italian: “Terra del Fuoco”
  • Japanese: “ティエラ・デル・フエゴ”
  • Japanese: “ティエラ・デル・フエゴ諸島”
  • Japanese: “フエゴ諸島”
  • Kabyle: “Akal n Tmes”
  • Kannada: “ಟೀಯೆರ್ - ಡೆಲ್ - ಫುಯೇಗೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Отты жер (архипелаг)”
  • Kazakh: “Отты жер”
  • Korean: “티에라 델 푸에고 제도”
  • Korean: “티에라델푸에고 제도”
  • Latin: “Terra Ignium”
  • Latin: “Terra Ignum”
  • Latvian: “Ugunszeme”
  • Literary Chinese: “火地島”
  • Lithuanian: “Ugnies Žemė”
  • Lithuanian: “Ugnies Žemės salynas”
  • Lombard: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Macedonian: “Огнена Земја”
  • Malay: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Malayalam: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Malayalam: “ടിയറ ഡെൽ ഫ്വേഗോ”
  • Marathi: “तिएरा देल फ्वेगो”
  • Mingrelian: “გოდაჩხირელი დიხაშ არქიპელაგი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Feuerland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldlendar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldlending”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ildlandet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ildlender”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ildlending”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tierra Del Fuego”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eldlandet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Norwegian: “Ildlandet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra del Fuòc”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra deu Huec”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fȳrland”
  • Ossetian: “Артон зæхх”
  • Ossetian: “Арты Зæхх”
  • Persian: “تیرا دل فوئگو”
  • Polish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Polish: “Ziemia Ognista”
  • Portuguese: “Terra do Fogo”
  • Portuguese: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Quechua: “Ninasuyu”
  • Quechua: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Romanian: “Țara de Foc”
  • Russian: “Огненная Земля”
  • Russian: “Тьерра-дель-Фуэго”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Fjuurlound”
  • Scots: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Serbian: “Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego”
  • Serbian: “Огњена земља”
  • Serbian: “Огњена Земља”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ognjena zemlja”
  • Slovak: “Ohňová zem”
  • Slovak: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Slovenian: “Ognjena dežela”
  • Slovenian: “Ognjena zemlja”
  • Slovenian: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de Tierra del Fuego”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Tierra del Fuego”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago Tierra del Fuego”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago Tierra del Fuego”
  • Spanish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Swahili: “Nchi ya Moto”
  • Swedish: “Eldslandet”
  • Swedish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Swiss German: “Füürland”
  • Tagalog: “Lupa ng Apoy”
  • Tagalog: “Lupain ng Apoy”
  • Tagalog: “TF”
  • Tagalog: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Tajik: “Замини Оташин (галаҷазира)”
  • Tajik: “Замини Оташин”
  • Tatar: “Утлы Җир”
  • Thai: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะเตียร์ราเดลฟวยโก”
  • Thai: “ติเอร์ราเดลฟูเอโก”
  • Thai: “เตียร์ราเดลฟวยโก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Feuerland”
  • Turkish: “Ateş Toprakları”
  • Turkish: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Ukrainian: “Вогняна земля”
  • Ukrainian: “Вогняна Земля”
  • Ukrainian: “Тієрра дель Фуеґо”
  • Ukrainian: “Тьєрра-дель-Фуего”
  • Uzbek: “Olovli yer”
  • Vietnamese: “Đất Lửa”
  • Vietnamese: “Tierra Del Fuego”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Welsh: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Western Frisian: “Fjoerlân”
  • Western Panjabi: “اگتھاں”
  • Wu Chinese: “火地群岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “Tierra del Fuego”
  • Yue Chinese: “火地羣島”
  • Yue Chinese: “火地群島”

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