Federico Albert National Reserve has a centre for visitors, attended by a park keeper from CONAF, with scale models, and texts that talks about the reserve. It has excursion Pathways, games for children, areas for camping or having a picnic.

The trees form a very old forest of eucalyptus, pines and cypresses. A road that borders Federico Albert National Reserve by the south side leads to El Monolito beach, more than 20 kms (12.4 miles) long. In its centre it is equipped with wooden footbridges which form a curious slope built over a dune and other beach services.

500 meters far from Federico Albert National Reserve you will find Chanco – meaning water puddle – it has 4.012 inhabitants and id a village with colonial houses declared typical zone the year 2000. It was built over an old settlement of fishermen natives. In here you will find the peaceful rural rhythm from the past, with carts pulled by oxen similar to baskets full of wheat, coal or firewood.

Chanco’s fame is related to its cheeses, industry which just began reactivating in 1997, after a long period without doing it. Now it produces Chanco cheeses made of sheep or cow milk, or both. You should walk along its old streets with corridors, to see wheat shops and a square, located in the centre of the village in the place where the old church and its cemetery used to exist. Then visit San Antonio Church (Iglesia de San Antonio), built in mud and straw with three naves painted in their inner side and finish in altars done id wood and metal. The main altar keeps the image of Our Lady of Candelaria, supposedly brought by the Spaniards. The City’s patron party is performed on February 2nd and there are masses from March to September from Monday to Saturday at 9:30 and 19. From October to February, from Monday to Saturday at 9 and 20, All year round, Sundays at 10.






Another interesting place that can be visited in Chanco is Guadalupe del Carmen Museum - located at Errazuriz #235 – that stores the prizes, clothes and other personal belongings from this Mexican folk music singer who was the first one in winning a golden disk for the amount of sold discs. It is only opened in summer from 10 to 18, for group tours in other part of the year you must contact the Tourism Department from Monday to Friday during office schedule.

The Culture House is also an attractive place to be visited in Chanco, in here art and hancraft are exhibited as well as the city hall’s art gallery. To finish, make a 12 kms (7.4 miles) round circuit to visit Federico Albert National Reserve and its beach.

From Chanco, take west by Yerbas Buenas Street to get -500 mts later- to Federico Albert National Reserve. Managed by CONAF, Federico Albert Nacional Reserve has 145 hectares and an Environmental Information Centre, a flora and fauna exhibition and a small set of photographs and scale models that illustrate the process to stop the advance of the dunes which reached Chanco and threatened to cover it.

Federico Albert was hired as the director of the National History Museum in Santiago, he introduced certain techniques to control the dunes and he was in charge of managing the project. The trees form an old forest full of eucalyptus, pines and cypresses. Management office and visits to Federico Albert National Reserve can be done between December and February from 9 to 20:30, from March to November from 9 to 17. It has a camp area for $7.500 and picnic areas for $5.000, up to six people. Entrance fee costs $1.500 and $500 for children.

A road that borders the south side of the reserve leads to The Monolith beach (playa El Monolito), more than 20 kms (12.4 miles) long; in its center it is equipped with wooden footbridges which conforms a curious coastal built over a dune and other beach services. By the same road you can return to Chanco’s downtown.

The trees form a very old forest of eucalyptus, pines and cypresses. A road that borders Federico Albert National Reserve by the south side leads to El Monolito beach, more than 20 kms (12.4 miles) long. In its centre it is equipped with wooden footbridges which form a curious slope built over a dune and other beach services.

500 meters far from Federico Albert National Reserve you will find Chanco – meaning water puddle – it has 4.012 inhabitants and id a village with colonial houses declared typical zone the year 2000. It was built over an old settlement of fishermen natives. In here you will find the peaceful rural rhythm from the past, with carts pulled by oxen similar to baskets full of wheat, coal or firewood.

Chanco’s fame is related to its cheeses, industry which just began reactivating in 1997, after a long period without doing it. Now it produces Chanco cheeses made of sheep or cow milk, or both. You should walk along its old streets with corridors, to see wheat shops and a square, located in the centre of the village in the place where the old church and its cemetery used to exist. Then visit San Antonio Church (Iglesia de San Antonio), built in mud and straw with three naves painted in their inner side and finish in altars done id wood and metal. The main altar keeps the image of Our Lady of Candelaria, supposedly brought by the Spaniards. The City’s patron party is performed on February 2nd and there are masses from March to September from Monday to Saturday at 9:30 and 19. From October to February, from Monday to Saturday at 9 and 20, All year round, Sundays at 10.






Another interesting place that can be visited in Chanco is Guadalupe del Carmen Museum - located at Errazuriz #235 – that stores the prizes, clothes and other personal belongings from this Mexican folk music singer who was the first one in winning a golden disk for the amount of sold discs. It is only opened in summer from 10 to 18, for group tours in other part of the year you must contact the Tourism Department from Monday to Friday during office schedule.

The Culture House is also an attractive place to be visited in Chanco, in here art and hancraft are exhibited as well as the city hall’s art gallery. To finish, make a 12 kms (7.4 miles) round circuit to visit Federico Albert National Reserve and its beach.

From Chanco, take west by Yerbas Buenas Street to get -500 mts later- to Federico Albert National Reserve. Managed by CONAF, Federico Albert Nacional Reserve has 145 hectares and an Environmental Information Centre, a flora and fauna exhibition and a small set of photographs and scale models that illustrate the process to stop the advance of the dunes which reached Chanco and threatened to cover it.

Federico Albert was hired as the director of the National History Museum in Santiago, he introduced certain techniques to control the dunes and he was in charge of managing the project. The trees form an old forest full of eucalyptus, pines and cypresses. Management office and visits to Federico Albert National Reserve can be done between December and February from 9 to 20:30, from March to November from 9 to 17. It has a camp area for $7.500 and picnic areas for $5.000, up to six people. Entrance fee costs $1.500 and $500 for children.

A road that borders the south side of the reserve leads to The Monolith beach (playa El Monolito), more than 20 kms (12.4 miles) long; in its center it is equipped with wooden footbridges which conforms a curious coastal built over a dune and other beach services. By the same road you can return to Chanco’s downtown.