Ollagüe, Chile

- 21 225 - 68.253055555556Koordinaten: 21 ° 14 ' S, 68 ° 15 ' W

Ollagüe is a Chilean frontier town in 1979 formed the same district ( comuna ) in the province of El Loa in the Región de Antofagasta in northern Chile.

Ollagüe is located in the altiplano at an altitude of 3704 m on the National Road 21 from Calama to Bolivia, at the intersection of two county roads and on the railway from Antofagasta to Bolivia over the 4 km away Bolivian border station Estación Avaroa.

The place is between the nearby volcano of the same Ollagüe in the southeast and the volcano Aucanquilcha in the West and is the starting point for ascents of these mountains.

In Ollagüe and in which approximately 5 km from the village of Buenaventura, (21 ° 16 '0 "S, 68 ° 16' 29" W 21.266742389722 68.274792381111 - ) was formerly the degraded at the two volcanoes sulfur loaded on the railway. Ollagüe today has only about 200 residents, many of whom work for the border station or the railway.