Southern Chile
Los Ríos
Valdivia Province

Valdivia

Valdivia has been called the “Pearl of the South” and the “Beer Capital of ". Thanks to its public spaces, order and cleanliness — in addition to nature, gastronomy and culture — it has positioned itself in the 21st century as one of the best cities to live in and visit in Chile.
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  • Type: City with 150,000 residents
  • Description: city in Chile
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Valdivía”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo Histórico y Antropológico Maurice van de Maele and Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi.

Museum
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or is an anthropology and history in Valdivia run by Universidad Austral de Chile. The exhibitions at the museum deals with Mapuche and Huilliche culture and the German colonization of southern Chile.

Museum
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is a in Valdivia run by Austral University of Chile. The exhibitions at the museum deals with the exploration of southern Chile, specially those made by the German naturalist Rodolfo Amando Philippi.

Stadium
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The , or Coliseo Municipal de Valdivia, is an indoor arena that is located in Valdivia, . The arena is primarily used to host basketball games, and has a seating capacity of 5,000 people.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Las Animas and Torobayo.

Suburb
Las Ánimas, is an industrial and residential located on the northern side of Valdivia Its main access points are: From the north, through route T-202 and the Puente Santa Elvira and through the south, Puente Calle-Calle.

Neighborhood
is a suburb of Valdivia, . It lies west of Isla Teja and connects to the city through .

Hamlet
is a Chilean hamlet located in Valdivia, , . It was described in 1899 by Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos on his book Diccionario Geográfico de la República de Chile as a "small and disperse hamlet".

Valdivia

Latitude
-39.8141° or 39° 48′ 51″ south
Longitude
-73.246° or 73° 14′ 46″ west
Population
150,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
ZAL
United Nations Location Code
CL ZAL
Open location code
47G85QP3+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3956170554
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3868707
Wiki­data ID
Q160687
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Valdivia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Valdivia”
  • Albanian: “Valdivia”
  • Arabic: “فالديفيا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة فالديفيا”
  • Armenian: “Վալդիվիա”
  • Asturian: “Valdivia”
  • Aymara: “Valdivia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Valdivia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Valdiviya”
  • Basque: “Valdivia”
  • Bavarian: “Valdivia”
  • Belarusian: “Вальдывія”
  • Bengali: “ভালদিভিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Валдивия”
  • Catalan: “Valdivia”
  • Cebuano: “Valdivia”
  • Chavacano: “Valdivia”
  • Chinese: “Valdivia”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔迪维亚”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾迪維亞”
  • Croatian: “Valdivia”
  • Czech: “Valdivia”
  • Danish: “Valdivia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Valdivia”
  • Dinka: “Valdivia”
  • Dutch: “Valdivia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالديفيا”
  • Esperanto: “Valdivia”
  • Estonian: “Valdivia”
  • Extremaduran: “Valdivia”
  • Finnish: “Valdivia”
  • French: “Valdivia”
  • Galician: “Valdivia”
  • Georgian: “ვალდივია”
  • German: “Valdivia”
  • Greek: “Βαλδίβια”
  • Greek: “Βαλντίβια”
  • Gujarati: “વલ્ડીવિયા”
  • Haitian: “Valdivia, Chili”
  • Haitian: “Valdivia”
  • Hebrew: “ואלדיביה”
  • Hindi: “वाल्डिविया”
  • Hungarian: “Valdivia”
  • Icelandic: “Valdivia”
  • Ido: “Valdivia”
  • Iloko: “Valdivia”
  • Indonesian: “Valdivia, Chili”
  • Indonesian: “Valdivia”
  • Irish: “Valdivia, an tSile”
  • Irish: “Valdivia”
  • Italian: “Valdivia”
  • Japanese: “バルディビア”
  • Kalaallisut: “Valdivia”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಲ್ಡಿವಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “발디비아”
  • Ladino: “Valdivia”
  • Latin: “Valdivia”
  • Latvian: “Valdivija”
  • Lithuanian: “Valdivija”
  • Malay: “Valdivia”
  • Marathi: “वल्दिव्हिआ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Valdivia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Valdivia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valdivia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valdivia”
  • Norwegian: “Valdivia”
  • Novial: “Valdivia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Valdivia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Valdivia”
  • Persian: “بالدیبیا”
  • Piemontese: “Valdivia”
  • Polish: “Valdivia”
  • Portuguese: “Valdivia”
  • Quechua: “Valdivia”
  • Romanian: “Valdivia, Chile”
  • Romanian: “Valdivia”
  • Russian: “Вальдивия”
  • Samogitian: “Valdėvėjė”
  • Scots: “Valdivia”
  • Serbian: “Валдивија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valdivia”
  • Silesian: “Valdivia”
  • Sinhala: “වල්දිවා”
  • Slovak: “Valdivia”
  • Slovenian: “Valdivia”
  • Spanish: “Valdivia”
  • Swedish: “Valdivia”
  • Tamil: “வாடிவிஆ”
  • Tatar: “Вальдивия”
  • Telugu: “వాల్డివియ”
  • Thai: “Valdivia”
  • Thai: “บัลดิเบีย”
  • Thai: “บัลดีเบีย”
  • Turkish: “Valdivia”
  • Ukrainian: “Вальдивія”
  • Ukrainian: “Вальдівія”
  • Urdu: “بالدیبیا”
  • Venetian: “Valdivia”
  • Vietnamese: “Valdivia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valdivia, Chile”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valdivia”
  • Welsh: “Valdivia”
  • Western Panjabi: “والدیویا”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦尔迪维亚”
  • Yiddish: “וואלדיוויא”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓦爾迪維亞”
  • “Valdėvėjė”
  • “Valdivia”

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