Vicuña
Vicuña, with a population of 25,000 in 2012, is the largest town in Valle de Elqui, Northern Chile. Vicuña is a major center for producing pisco, a brandy made in Chile and Peru. You can visit the nearby pisco distilleries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,900 residents
- Description: commune of Chile
- Also known as: “Vicuna” and “Vicuña, Chile”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elqui Valley and Torre Bauer.
Museo-Biblioteca Gabriela Mistral
Museum
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museo-Biblioteca Gabriela Mistral is a museum.
Vicuña
- Categories: commune of Chile, city in Chile, and locality
- Location: Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-30.034° or 30° 2′ 3″ southLongitude
-70.7127° or 70° 42′ 46″ westPopulation
15,900Elevation
616 metres (2,021 feet)United Nations Location Code
CL VICOpen location code
47XFX78P+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2626164691OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Vicuña” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيكوينا”
- Armenian: “Վիկունյա”
- Asturian: “Vicuña”
- Bashkir: “Викунья”
- Basque: “Vicuña”
- Belarusian: “Вікуння”
- Catalan: “Vicuña”
- Cebuano: “Vicuña”
- Chinese: “Vicuña”
- Chinese: “維庫尼亞”
- Chinese: “维库尼亚”
- Czech: “Vicuña”
- Danish: “Vicuña”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vicuña, Şili”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vicuña”
- Dutch: “Vicuña”
- Esperanto: “Vicuña”
- French: “Vicuña”
- German: “Vicuña”
- Hebrew: “ויקוניה”
- Hungarian: “Vicuña”
- Irish: “Vicuña”
- Italian: “Vicuña”
- Japanese: “ビクーニャ”
- Korean: “비쿠냐”
- Lithuanian: “Vikunija”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vicuña”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vicuña”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vicuña”
- Norwegian: “Vicuña”
- Persian: “ویکونیا”
- Polish: “Vicuña”
- Portuguese: “Vicuña”
- Romanian: “Vicuña, Chile”
- Romanian: “Vicuña”
- Russian: “Викунья”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vicuña”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vicuña, Čile”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vicuña”
- Slovenian: “Vicuña”
- Spanish: “Vicuña”
- Swedish: “Vicuña”
- Tajik: “Викуня”
- Turkish: “Vicuña, Şili”
- Turkish: “Vicuña”
- Ukrainian: “Вікунья”
- Urdu: “ویکونیا”
- Welsh: “Vicuña”
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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 “Vicuña”. Photo: LivingPrayer, CC BY-SA 3.0.