Andacollo is a city and commune in Elqui Province in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, in the semi-arid mountains of the Norte Chico, with a population of 11,093 recorded in the 2012 census, most of it urban. Its name derives from Quechua, combining anta, meaning copper or gold, with coya, meaning queen. The town was founded in 1891 as a mining settlement and is one of Chile's oldest and best known pilgrimage centers, its shrine to Our Lady of Andacollo drawing thousands of visitors each year, and it experienced a gold rush in the early 1930s before becoming home to the Carmen de Andacollo copper mine that lies beside the town today.
Facts
Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Andacollo (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 11,044 (2017)
2. Andacollo (Wikipedia)
Infobox: elevation_m
1019
- In Group: Cities of South America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -30.25, -71.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -30.25, -71.25
-30.25 -71.25 BWk
4. GeoNames: Andacollo - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3899680, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3899680, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-30.23449 -71.08534 P PPL CL 07 41 04103 11093 1018 America/Santiago
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