Vallenar is a city and commune in Atacama Region, Chile. It is the capital of the Huasco Province and is located in the valley of the Huasco River. Vallenar has 52,000 inhabitants. Its main activities are farming and mining. It was founded as San Ambrosio de Ballenary by Ambrose O'Higgins in 1789, after his birthplace in Ballynary in County Sligo, Ireland. With its founding Vallenar displaced Santa Rosa, now Freirina, as the main settlement of the Huasco Valley.
Read more from Wikipedia
In 1922 a large earthquake devastated the city, destroying much of its older architecture.
Since the 1950s the city has been a service hub for iron mining in Chile with the city experiencing a significant economic upswing in the 1960s with the opening of the mine of El Algarrobo. Other iron mines near Los Colorados and Huantemé, but the wider Huasco basin hosts also mineral deposits of copper and gold.
The city lies next to the north-south Chile Route 5 highway which crosses through Huasco Bridge the river. The city lies downstream Santa Juana Dam built in the 1990s, and provides access to the inland commune of Alto del Carmen. Llanos de Challe National Park is located 60 km (37 mi) northwest of the city of Vallenar.
From the Wikipedia article Vallenar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weather
Loading…
Forecast by Open-Meteo from national weather models. A forecast, not a measurement.
The past twelve months
Loading…
ERA5 reanalysis from Copernicus, via Open-Meteo. Modelled on a ~25 km grid, not measured at a station.
Air right now
Loading…
CAMS European and global air quality forecast, via Open-Meteo. Modelled on an 11–40 km grid; European AQI bands from the EEA.
Nearby on Wikipedia
Loading…
Articles with coordinates within 10 km, from English Wikipedia.
Towns around Vallenar
Straight-line distance and compass bearing from the town centre.