Loa River
The Loa River is a U-shaped river in Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. At 440 km long, it is the country's longest river and the main watercourse in the Atacama Desert.- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: river in Chile
- Also known as: “Bien Nacional Protegido Desembocadura del Río Loa” and “Santuario de la Naturaleza Desembocadura Río Loa”
Loa River
- Categories: river and recreation area
- Location: Iquique, Iquique Province, Tarapacá, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-21.4309° or 21° 25′ 51″ southLongitude
-70.0424° or 70° 2′ 33″ westOperator
Ministerio del Medio AmbienteOpen location code
57CFHX95+J2OpenStreetMap ID
way 1307765869OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveWikidata ID
Q737831
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Loa River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر لوا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Loa”
- Aymara: “Loa”
- Bashkir: “Лоа”
- Bavarian: “Río Loa”
- Belarusian: “Лоа”
- Breton: “stêr Loa”
- Breton: “Stêr Loa”
- Bulgarian: “Лоа (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Лоа”
- Catalan: “Riu Loa”
- Cebuano: “Río Loa”
- Chinese: “洛阿河”
- Croatian: “Loa”
- Czech: “Loa”
- Dutch: “Loa River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوا”
- Estonian: “Loa jõgi”
- French: “río Loa”
- French: “Río Loa”
- Georgian: “ლოა”
- German: “Río Loa”
- Hebrew: “נהר לואה”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Loa”
- Irish: “Abhainn Loa”
- Italian: “Loa”
- Japanese: “ロア川”
- Korean: “로아강”
- Lithuanian: “Loa”
- Mingrelian: “ლოა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loa”
- Norwegian: “Loa”
- Persian: “رود لوآ”
- Polish: “Loa”
- Portuguese: “Rio Loa”
- Quechua: “Loa mayu”
- Russian: “Лоа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Loa”
- Slovenian: “Loa”
- Somali: “Webiga Loa”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوآ چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Loa”
- Spanish: “Río Loa”
- Swedish: “Loa”
- Turkish: “Loa Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Лоа”
- Venetian: “Fiume Loa”
- Vlax Romani: “Loa”
- Welsh: “Afon Loa”
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