Curepto is a village founded in 1770, it has an authentic rural life which can be noticed in its business street and the small squares dedicated to people from the village and the intimate life from its main doors. It has been declared Typical Zone and the square, the parish and Nuestra Señora del Rosario Church deserve to be visited. The church – declared National Monument – was built by the community between 1835 and 1845, in the inside an image from the Our Lady of the Rosary calls the attention. It was made from wood and brought from Llongocura in 1755. In summer there are masses from Monday to Saturday at 20 and Sundays at 11. During winter masses are performed from Monday to Saturday at 19:30. For visits, it is opened daily from 8:30 to 21:00.

In the parish’s corridor you will find the Historical Religious Museum (Museo Histórico Religioso), in its two rooms different objects related to the village’s history are exhibited. It’s only opened during summer, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 17:30. Entrance is free.

23 kms (14.2 miles) south from Curepto you Hill find Tabunco waterfall, 7 mts high – which falls into a pond surrounded by a native forest – and another 5 kms (3.1 miles) up – Gualleco village with its simple hotspring bathes.

Get out from Curepto by a flat road made of gravel which crosses the valley, and 10 kms (6.2 miles) from there you will return to the Sea Route (Ruta del Mar).

Constitución

Constitución has 33.914 inhabitants. Constitución is a city which was founded in 1794 by Santiago Oñederra under the name of Nueva Bilbao (New Bilbao), during Ambrosio O’Higgins’ government. Constitución was a active port with a railway branch, intended to be a port for loading wheat production from the Province of Talca and the estates located in the coast.

Constitución began as a resort in 1900 and a lot of people from Talca attended to it. Enrique Mac-Iver – remarkable politician and intellectual was one of its founders. Now Constitución is still a popular and active resort with a lot of restaurants and boarding houses, camping, good hotels and beautiful beaches, with complete tourist equipment.

The construction of the big plant from Celco Cellulose (Celulosa Celco) implied a drastic change in the city, since it changed urban physiognomy and economy as well as the wood exploitation and fishing activities. All that characteristics make Constitución now days a small and dynamic city.

To know Constitución in a visit, enter by Echeverría street next to the river, from where you will see beautiful ceiled trip launches, which offer individual and group navigations. Continue to visit the fiscal dock and finish at the port authority. If you follow Echeverría Street upstream the river – in where there is an intense activity and fishing shooners – you will be able to visit Maule’s shipyards, in charge of repairing ships. Before, the faluchos maulinos (Maule’s Boats) were built in here.

The construction of these particular boats began in 1660, date in which Curanipe port was built. At the beginning they were used to transport the load from the big ships to the beach and vice versa. They were up to 26 meters long and up to 5 m high from the deck. They were built manually with oak woods in shipyards from Curanipe and Constitución. Used for transporting wheat, they soon expanded to other Chilean and Peruvian ports where they were sold together with it’s load. Entailed with two squared candles, they sailed without any instruments, guided by a crew conformed by 3 sailors and a captain. With the arrival of the railway and the end of the port in 1920, their construction began diminishing gradually until it disappeared during the 1960s.

Return by Echeverría street until you reach the port authority, turn south by Rengifo Srteet and – after 3 blocks – turn right – indicating with the lights – to visit Mutrún Hill (Cerro Mutrún). With attractive views for admiring the city: a cellulose mill with it huge buildings and big storage facilities; to the river mouth, its islands, beaches and forests; through downtown and those houses which have been built in its hills.

Return to the city by Freire Street and enter downtown to the Main Square. It is surrounded by an active commerce and places for meeting, a church built in 1860 and different public buildings – among them, the City Hall Museum – which exhibits archeological elements, fossils and birds from the zone; a historical review from the city and its founders and replicas from the boats (faluchos maulinos). It also has an exhibition room for local artists. It is opened from March to December, from Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 13 and 15:30 to 19; Saturday and Sunday from 14:30 to 18; entrance is free. One block far you will find the City Hall Market, with handcraft, seafood and a small restaurant where you will be able to have delicious seafood dishes.

To finish your visit to Constitución, turn up to O’Higgins Street and then turn west. You will pass by old houses specially built until you get to the end of the road. Then continue by Mac-Iver Avenue. You will pass outside the cellulose plant to reach the Beach Zone. It is a 5 kms (3.1 miles) long stretch, in which beginning there are good restaurants. The road runs next to a cliff, 20 m over grey sanded beaches and divided by huge rocks which are unique in the whole beach and imply a gorgeous show that must be seen by every visitor.




Small beaches emerge between the rocks. Some of them are Lovers’ arch (El Arco de los Enamorados), Calabocillos, Las Termópilas and Church’s stone (Piedra de la Iglesia) where you can practice surf and also where important tournaments have been organized. The road finishes at Meguellines Beach (Playa Meguellines), where Celco’s warehouse is located as well as a 460 mts long dock – built between 1970 and 1973. It is used by fishermen who place espineles from the dock with casters tied to the trees which are located at the beach. From here a trekking pathway begins, it heads to lonely beaches located through the south.

Return by the same road to go out from Constitución.

In the parish’s corridor you will find the Historical Religious Museum (Museo Histórico Religioso), in its two rooms different objects related to the village’s history are exhibited. It’s only opened during summer, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 17:30. Entrance is free.

23 kms (14.2 miles) south from Curepto you Hill find Tabunco waterfall, 7 mts high – which falls into a pond surrounded by a native forest – and another 5 kms (3.1 miles) up – Gualleco village with its simple hotspring bathes.

Get out from Curepto by a flat road made of gravel which crosses the valley, and 10 kms (6.2 miles) from there you will return to the Sea Route (Ruta del Mar).

Constitución

Constitución has 33.914 inhabitants. Constitución is a city which was founded in 1794 by Santiago Oñederra under the name of Nueva Bilbao (New Bilbao), during Ambrosio O’Higgins’ government. Constitución was a active port with a railway branch, intended to be a port for loading wheat production from the Province of Talca and the estates located in the coast.

Constitución began as a resort in 1900 and a lot of people from Talca attended to it. Enrique Mac-Iver – remarkable politician and intellectual was one of its founders. Now Constitución is still a popular and active resort with a lot of restaurants and boarding houses, camping, good hotels and beautiful beaches, with complete tourist equipment.

The construction of the big plant from Celco Cellulose (Celulosa Celco) implied a drastic change in the city, since it changed urban physiognomy and economy as well as the wood exploitation and fishing activities. All that characteristics make Constitución now days a small and dynamic city.

To know Constitución in a visit, enter by Echeverría street next to the river, from where you will see beautiful ceiled trip launches, which offer individual and group navigations. Continue to visit the fiscal dock and finish at the port authority. If you follow Echeverría Street upstream the river – in where there is an intense activity and fishing shooners – you will be able to visit Maule’s shipyards, in charge of repairing ships. Before, the faluchos maulinos (Maule’s Boats) were built in here.

The construction of these particular boats began in 1660, date in which Curanipe port was built. At the beginning they were used to transport the load from the big ships to the beach and vice versa. They were up to 26 meters long and up to 5 m high from the deck. They were built manually with oak woods in shipyards from Curanipe and Constitución. Used for transporting wheat, they soon expanded to other Chilean and Peruvian ports where they were sold together with it’s load. Entailed with two squared candles, they sailed without any instruments, guided by a crew conformed by 3 sailors and a captain. With the arrival of the railway and the end of the port in 1920, their construction began diminishing gradually until it disappeared during the 1960s.

Return by Echeverría street until you reach the port authority, turn south by Rengifo Srteet and – after 3 blocks – turn right – indicating with the lights – to visit Mutrún Hill (Cerro Mutrún). With attractive views for admiring the city: a cellulose mill with it huge buildings and big storage facilities; to the river mouth, its islands, beaches and forests; through downtown and those houses which have been built in its hills.

Return to the city by Freire Street and enter downtown to the Main Square. It is surrounded by an active commerce and places for meeting, a church built in 1860 and different public buildings – among them, the City Hall Museum – which exhibits archeological elements, fossils and birds from the zone; a historical review from the city and its founders and replicas from the boats (faluchos maulinos). It also has an exhibition room for local artists. It is opened from March to December, from Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 13 and 15:30 to 19; Saturday and Sunday from 14:30 to 18; entrance is free. One block far you will find the City Hall Market, with handcraft, seafood and a small restaurant where you will be able to have delicious seafood dishes.

To finish your visit to Constitución, turn up to O’Higgins Street and then turn west. You will pass by old houses specially built until you get to the end of the road. Then continue by Mac-Iver Avenue. You will pass outside the cellulose plant to reach the Beach Zone. It is a 5 kms (3.1 miles) long stretch, in which beginning there are good restaurants. The road runs next to a cliff, 20 m over grey sanded beaches and divided by huge rocks which are unique in the whole beach and imply a gorgeous show that must be seen by every visitor.




Small beaches emerge between the rocks. Some of them are Lovers’ arch (El Arco de los Enamorados), Calabocillos, Las Termópilas and Church’s stone (Piedra de la Iglesia) where you can practice surf and also where important tournaments have been organized. The road finishes at Meguellines Beach (Playa Meguellines), where Celco’s warehouse is located as well as a 460 mts long dock – built between 1970 and 1973. It is used by fishermen who place espineles from the dock with casters tied to the trees which are located at the beach. From here a trekking pathway begins, it heads to lonely beaches located through the south.

Return by the same road to go out from Constitución.