Huasco

Huasco () is a Chilean city and commune, in the Huasco Province, Atacama Region. It is the central town of a mining district dominated by medium-scale mining.

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Settlement.official_name: Huasco
Settlement.settlement_type: City and Commune
Settlement.image_skyline: HUASCO - FORO DESDE PLAYA GRANDE - panoramio (cropped).jpg
Settlement.image_flag: Huasco Bandera.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Escudo de Huasco.svg
Settlement.image_map: Comuna de Huasco.svg
Settlement.map_alt: Huasco's urban hinterland
Settlement.pushpin_map: Chile
Settlement.pushpin_map_narrow: yes
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Chile
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Huasco
Settlement.government_type: Municipality
Settlement.leader_title: Alcalde
Settlement.leader_name: Rodrigo Loyola Morenilla

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Population: 8977
Area: 1601.4
Elevation: 30
Official website: www.imhuasco.cl
Image: HUASCO - FORO DESDE PLAYA GRANDE - panoramio.jpg
Dialing code: 51

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Huasco () is a Chilean city and commune, in the Huasco Province, Atacama Region. It is the central town of a mining district dominated by medium-scale mining.

The port city of Huasco is located 50 km west of Vallenar and close to the town of Huasco Bajo, which lies on the southern bank of the Huasco River and only a few kilometers from its mouth. The coastal route between Huasco Bajo and Carrizal Bajo provides one of the two accesses to Llanos de Challe National Park. To the south the city lies near the former island of Guacolda which was joined to the continent and developed as part of an area of heavy industry hosting a thermoelectic power plant, the mineral processing plant Planta de Pellets and a deep water port.