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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
Barrio Yungay · Carlos Figueroa Rojas
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    University 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
  2. 02
    Pontifical 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
  3. 03
    National 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
  4. 04
    University 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
  5. 05
    Chilean 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
  6. 06
    Chilean 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
  7. 07
    Santiago 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
  8. 08
    Chilean 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
  9. 09
    Universidad 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
  10. 10
    Santa 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 Yungay
    434 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · CLP$57,290–88,890
  • Temuco → Barrio Yungay
    613 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · CLP$77,070–119,620
  • Mendoza → Barrio Yungay
    181 km · quickest by road, 6h 29m · AR$20,650–27,550
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChiloéCL

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,067 km
  2. 02
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,195 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,491 km
  4. 04
    El ChalténAR

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,777 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,133 km

If you know how people move in Barrio Yungay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Barrio Yungay

Barrio Yungay is 3 km from Santiago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.