Chuquicamata
Chuquicamata is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Industry
- Description: Chilean mine of copper
- Also known as: “División Chuquicamata”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chuquicamata.
Chuquicamata
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chuquicamata is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km southwest of Chuquicamata.
Chuquicamata
- Categories: copper mine and gold mine
- Location: Calama, El Loa, Antofagasta, Northern Chile, Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.28715° or 22° 17′ 14″ southLongitude
-68.89531° or 68° 53′ 43″ westOperator
CodelcoOpen location code
579HP473+4VOpenStreetMap ID
way 355143364OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q746606
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Chuquicamata” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chuquicamata”
- Arabic: “تشوكويكاماتا”
- Azerbaijani: “Çukikamata”
- Basque: “Chuquicamata”
- Bulgarian: “Чукикамата”
- Catalan: “Chuquicamata”
- Cebuano: “Chuquicamata Copper Mine”
- Chinese: “丘基卡馬塔”
- Chinese: “丘基卡马塔”
- Croatian: “Chuquicamata”
- Czech: “Důl Chuquicamata”
- Danish: “Chuquicamata”
- Dimli (individual language): “Chuquicamata”
- Dutch: “Chuquicamata”
- Esperanto: “Chuquicamata”
- French: “Chuquicamata”
- French: “Mine de Chuquicamata”
- German: “Chuquicamata”
- Hebrew: “צ’וקיקמטה”
- Indonesian: “Chuquicamata”
- Italian: “Chuquicamata”
- Japanese: “チュキカマタ”
- Lithuanian: “Čukikamata”
- Macedonian: “Чукикамата”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chuquicamata”
- Norwegian: “Chuquicamata”
- Polish: “Chuquicamata”
- Portuguese: “Chuquicamata”
- Russian: “Чукикамата”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chuquicamata”
- Slovenian: “Chuquicamata”
- Spanish: “Chuquicamata”
- Swedish: “Chuquicamata”
- Turkish: “Chuquicamata”
- Ukrainian: “Чукікамата”
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