Barrio Yungay
Barrio Yungay is a neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, located to the west of the city center in the commune of Santiago and to the west of Barrio Brasil.

Barrio Yungay is a neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, located to the west of the city center in the commune of Santiago and to the west of Barrio Brasil.
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Worth seeing in and around Barrio Yungay
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Chile
The University of Chile is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.
2.2 km · public university in Santiago, Chile · Wikipedia - 02Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is a private research university in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the thirteen Catholic universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso.
3.1 km · Chilean university · Wikipedia - 03National Library of Chile
The National Library of Chile is the national library of Chile. It is located on the Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins in Santiago, in a building completed in 1925, though its history reaches to the early nineteenth century before it was relocated to its current home.
2.6 km · library of Chile · Wikipedia - 04University of Santiago
The University of Santiago, Chile is one of the oldest public research universities in Chile. It was founded as Escuela de Artes y Oficios in 1849 by Ignacy Domeyko, under the government of Manuel Bulnes.
1.5 km · Chilean university · Wikipedia - 05Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts
The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880, the organization is managed by the Artistic Union.
2.8 km · national monument of Chile · Wikipedia - 06Chilean National Museum of Natural History
The Chilean National Museum of Natural History is one of three national museums in Chile, along with the Museum of Fine Arts and the National History Museum. It is located in Quinta Normal Park, and was founded in 1830 by the French naturalist Claudio Gay.
900 m · natural history museum in Chile · Wikipedia - 07Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral
Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Santiago and the main temple of the Catholic Church in that country. As a Cathedral Church, it is the permanent seat of the Archbishop of Santiago and is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
2 km · national monument of Chile · Wikipedia - 08Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from Central and South America. The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile.
2 km · art museum in Chile · Wikipedia - 09Universidad Central de Chile
Universidad Central de Chile, abbreviated as UCEN, is the first autonomous private university in Chile, founded in 1982 in Santiago de Chile. It's accredited in the areas of institutional management and undergraduate teaching by the National Accreditation Commission of Chile for a term of four years from December 2017 to December 2021.
2.1 km · university in Chile · Wikipedia - 10Santa Lucía Hill
Santa Lucía Hill, also known in Mapuche as Huelén Hill, is a hill in the centre of Santiago, Chile. It is situated between Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins in the south, Santa Lucía Street in the west and Victoria Subercaseaux on the east.
2.7 km · hill in Santiago, Chile · Wikipedia
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Getting to Barrio Yungay
- Airports
- Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL), 12 km · Governor Francisco Gabrielli (MDZ), 188 km
- Stations
- Universidad de Chile, 2.3 km · La Moneda, 1.9 km · Santa Lucía, 2.7 km · Santa Ana, 1.3 km · San Alberto Hurtado, 2.5 km
- Concepcion → Barrio Yungay434 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · CLP$57,290–88,890
- Temuco → Barrio Yungay613 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · CLP$77,070–119,620
- Mendoza → Barrio Yungay181 km · quickest by road, 6h 29m · AR$20,650–27,550
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Barrio Yungay
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barrio Yungay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextCajón del Maipo, beautiful in spring, some 75 km south east of Santiago, day trip.
From Wikivoyage: Santiago, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Barrio Yungay
Barrio Yungay is 3 km from Santiago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Santiagocapital city of Chile2.2 km
- Recoletatown in Chile3.2 km
- Barrio Bellavistaarea of Santiago de Chile3.5 km