South Zone

Malalcahuello National Reserve

Malalcahuello National Reserve (Corral of horses) Malalcahuello National Reserve is situated in Curacautín, 93,21 miles from Temuco. It counts with a ski center of Lonquimay volcano and with the footpath excursion Piedra Santa, which it can be crossed following the indication’s pamphlet. These reserves are rich in flora and fauna and present attractive and solitary places. Is possible to access to the southern [...]
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Malleco National Reserve

Malleco National Reserve Malleco National Reserve was created in 1907 and its 41.081,27 acres of surface are covered with native forests of Araucaria, tepa and laurel. The relief of Malleco National Reserve is steep due to the mountainous cord presence and is of high science interest. Comillío Hill (1679 meters), Motrulo Hill (1938 meters), Mesacura Hill (5.272,31 feet) stands out within the reserve, [...]
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Panguipulli Lake

Panguipulli Lake (Land of lions) The Panguipulli Lake has a surface of 23.227,91 acres, and it is to an altitude of 426,51 feet, 41,01 miles of Lican Ray. Is the largest and perhaps most beautiful of the seven lakes. In its west shore there are a moraine glacier area, low and waved, with excellent agricultural land. Towards the mountain range, the steep [...]
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Villarrica

Villarrica The city of Villarrica is located to 54,06 miles to the Southeastern of Temuco and to 16,78 miles of Pucón. This city was founded by Gerónimo de Alderete in 1552, with the objective to operate the gold washing and to consolidate a winter pass towards Pampas and the Atlantic. Count with around 45 thousand inhabitants. Villarrica is located to [...]
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Temuco

Temuco (Water of Temu) Temuco is the capital of the ninth region of the Araucanía. It is located to 416,32 mi to the south of Santiago and has around 300.000 inhabitants. It is a beautiful and mighty city that concentrates most of the administrative activities, industrial and commercial of the region. Temuco is in front of the “island” of earth [...]
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Las Trancas Valley

Las Trancas Valley (The Poles Valley) Las Trancas Valley is a typical mountain range town of colorful constructions, located in an esplanade surrounded by beautiful cliffs and forests of lengas and coigües that changes of tonalities in the course of the year, turning their leaves more reddish in autumn and retaking their intense greenness in spring, on the ground covered with ferns and copihues [...]
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Arauco

Arauco (Water of greda) The locality of Arauco has around 12 thousand inhabitants and it is only 45 miles away from the city of Concepción. It is a calm town, surrounded by hills, with a beautiful white sand beach. The town of Arauco was founded in 1555 by Pedro of Valdivia and transferred to its present location in 1590, on the [...]
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Chillán

Chillán (The falling down of what is being brought) The city of Chillán is the capital of the province of Ñuble  in the VIII-Region of Bio-Bio, placed  on an extensive plain, between the mountain range of La Costa and summits of The Andes, Chillán is located 247 miles to the south of Santiago and 65 miles of the city of Los [...]
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Concepción

Concepción The city of Concepción is the provincial capital of the Eighth region of Chile, it is raised on the Bío-Bio River (Rio Bio-Bio) and it is located 316 miles to the south of Santiago and 69 miles of the city of Chillán, and is the commercial center of agricultural products of the fertile surrounding region. Concepción has around 327,000 inhabitants, [...]
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Lebu

Lebu (Partiality – Parcialidad) Lebu is a beautiful coastal city situated  404 miles from Santiago, Chile.It is the capital of the province of Arauco, Lebu counts on around 27,000 inhabitants. Its main activity is the coal mining, initiated in 1852 by Matías Rioseco Rivera and, later, re-established by Maximiliano Errázuriz and Jose T. Urmeneta. Today, the company is handled by ENACAR. It [...]
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