Chaitén
Chaitén is in Los Lagos region in the south of Chile. The town has an important transportation hub on the Carretera Austral with major ferry services to Chiloé and Puerto Montt.Photo: Hosteria Outsider, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: TerritorioSur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chaitén
- Type: Town with 4,000 residents
- Description: Chilean commune
- Categories: commune of Chile and locality
- Location: Palena Province, Los Lagos, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-42.9165° or 42° 54' 60" southLongitude
-72.7084° or 72° 42' 30" westPopulation
4,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
WCHUnited Nations Location Code
CL WCHOpen Location Code
479937MR+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 214215709OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3895642Wikidata ID
Q3759Chaitén Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Chaitén
- Arabic: شايتن
- Asturian: Chaitén
- Basque: Chaitén
- Breton: Chaitén
- Catalan: Chaitén
- Cebuano: Chaiten
- Cebuano: Chaitén
- Chinese: Chaitén
- Chinese: 柴滕
- Czech: Chaitén
- Dutch: Chaitén
- Egyptian Arabic: شايتن
- English: Chaiten
- French: Chaitén
- German: Chaitén
- Italian: Chaitén
- Japanese: チャイテン
- Korean: 차이텐
- Kölsch: Chaitén
- Lithuanian: Čaitenas
- Min Nan Chinese: Chaitén
- Norwegian: Chaitén
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chaitén
- Occitan (post 1500): Chaitén
- Persian: چایتن، شیلی
- Polish: Chaitén
- Portuguese: Chaitén
- Romanian: Chaitén
- Russian: Чайтен
- Serbo-Croatian: Chaitén
- Slovak: Chaitén
- Spanish: Chaiten
- Spanish: Chaitén
- Swedish: Chaiten
- Swedish: Chaitén
- Ukrainian: Чайтен
- Waray (Philippines): Chaitén
Other Places Named Chaitén
In the Area
- Chaitén SurNeighbourhood
- Chaitén ViejoHamlet, 6 km south
- Punta NavarroLocality, 9 km southwest
- Punta BecerraLocality, 9 km southwest
- Santa BárbaraHamlet, 10 km northwest
- Punta ErrázurizLocality, 11 km southwest
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Chaitén. Photo: Hosteria Outsider, CC BY-SA 3.0.