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The Best Attractions In Chaiten

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Chaitén is a Chilean town, commune and former capital of the Palena Province in Los Lagos Region. The town is north of the mouth of Yelcho River, on the east coast of the Gulf of Corcovado. The town is strategically close to the northern end of the Carretera Austral, where the highway goes inland. The Desertores Islands are part of the commune.
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  • 2. Volcan Chaiten Chaiten
    Chaitén is a volcanic caldera 3 kilometres in diameter, 17 kilometres west of the elongated ice-capped Michinmahuida volcano and 10 kilometres northeast of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile. The most recent eruptive phase of the volcano erupted on 2008. Originally, radiocarbon dating of older tephra from the volcano suggested that its last previous eruption was in 7420 BC ± 75 years. However, recent studies have found that the volcano is more active than thought. According to the Global Volcanism Program, its last eruption was in 2011.The caldera rim reaches 1,122 metres above sea level. Before the current eruption, it was mostly filled by a rhyolite obsidian lava dome that reached a height of 962 metres , partly devoid of vegetation. Two small lakes occu...
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  • 5. Yelcho Lake Chaiten
    Yelcho Lake is a large fjord-shaped lake located in Chilean Patagonia, in southern Palena province of Los Lagos Region, Chile. The lake receives the waters of the Futaleufu River at its southern tip, near the tiny settlement of Puerto Ramirez. The river then flows northward through mountainous and glaciated terrain, until it outflows via the Yelcho River north-west and empties into Gulf of Corcovado, near Chaitén. The lake is a popular destination for fly fishing, and several lodges and hotels operate on its shores. Yelcho Lake is most frequently accessed via the town of Chaitén to the north, either by hiring a small charter flight from the city of Puerto Montt or by a series of ferry rides from Puerto Montt or from the port of Quellón on the island of Chiloe on the other side of the Gu...
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  • 6. Mirador Chaiten Chaiten
    El Mirador Airport , is an airport just southeast of Puerto Varas, a city in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. Puerto Varas is on the southwest shore of Llanquihue Lake. The Puerto Montt VOR-DME is located 8.1 nautical miles southwest of the airport.
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  • 7. Futaleufu River Futaleufu
    The Futaleufú River, located in northern Patagonia, is one of the premier whitewater rivers in the world. The river is fed by glacial snow melt in the Andean lakes region of Argentina and Chile. The river gorge drops as low as 1,700 metres below the surrounding glaciated peaks. The name Futaleufú is an indigenous Mapuche word meaning Big River.” Locals refer to the valley as un paisaje pintado por dios—a landscape painted by God.
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  • 8. Futaleufu Futaleufu
    The Futaleufú River, located in northern Patagonia, is one of the premier whitewater rivers in the world. The river is fed by glacial snow melt in the Andean lakes region of Argentina and Chile. The river gorge drops as low as 1,700 metres below the surrounding glaciated peaks. The name Futaleufú is an indigenous Mapuche word meaning Big River.” Locals refer to the valley as un paisaje pintado por dios—a landscape painted by God.
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  • 9. Rio Espolon Futaleufu
    The Futaleufú River, located in northern Patagonia, is one of the premier whitewater rivers in the world. The river is fed by glacial snow melt in the Andean lakes region of Argentina and Chile. The river gorge drops as low as 1,700 metres below the surrounding glaciated peaks. The name Futaleufú is an indigenous Mapuche word meaning Big River.” Locals refer to the valley as un paisaje pintado por dios—a landscape painted by God.
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  • 11. Pumalin Park Los Lagos Region
    Pumalín Park is a 400,000 ha nature reserve in the Palena Province of Chile, created by the United States environmental foundation The Conservation Land Trust, which was endowed and led by the American business magnate Douglas Tompkins. Designated a Nature Sanctuary in 2005, Pumalín was Chile's largest private nature reserve and operated as a public-access park, with an extensive infrastructure of trails, campgrounds, and visitor centers. By an accord announced on 18 March 2017, the park was gifted to the Chilean state and consolidated with another 4,000,000 ha to become part of South America's largest national park.The park consists of two areas, and there seems to be some interest of the park owners to purchase the intermediate 340 km² of the San Ignacio del Huinay Foundation as well....
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