Nahuelbuta National Park counts with several attractiveness between they to stand out the Stone of the Eagle, natural viewpoint from which top it is possible to observe the Pacific Ocean and the Mountain range of The Andes; The Peat bogs (area of scientific interest) where stand out insectivorous vegetables; the Valley of Pehuenco, Pichinahuel Hill, Anay Hill and Coimalín.

Nahuelbuta National Park is the only sector of the Mountain range of the Coast where there are greater concentrations of araucarias, in addition lenga, mañío of long leaf, oak and coigüe. The fauna of Nahuelbuta National Park is made up of foxes chilotes, pudú, churrín, chucao, quique and black carpenter who is in extinction, among others.

The climate in the sector of Nahuelbuta National Park is tempered warm with 6 months of rain. The summer is dry and warm and from June to September the snow storm appears. The annual temperature is of 13º C. Nahuelbuta National Park counts with excursion footpaths like the Stone of the Eagle, Hill Anay, the Arbol or Repu Aliwen.

The area of camping of Nahuelbuta National Park is in Pehuenco, located immediate to the administration and counts on 10 sites with table, banks, rustic furnaces, water, laundries, and baths. Is to 26,10 mi of the Angol city and 36,04 mi of Cañete. Open to the public all the year.

It is possible to arrive at Nahuelbuta National Park from Temuco to Angol and vice versa in the Bus Terminal of Bío Bío located in Lautaro Street #853 with 22 dayly departures from Monday to Saturday and 16 the Sundays.

There are varied places where it is possible to encamp inside of Nahuelbuta National Park.




Pehuenco

It is located in a space near the administration area of Nahuelbuta National Park. The 11 sites count with tables, banks, furnace, potable water, laundries, hygienic rustic services and places for the rest with natural shade. The area has a footpath of natural interpretation, denominated “the Tree” or “Repu- Aliwen”.

Coimallín

It is located to 3,11 mi of the administration area of Nahuelbuta National Park, with 4 sites of picnic, tables, furnaces, waste baskets and water.

Nahuelbuta National Park counts with the following footpaths of excursion

Stone the Eagle

Through 2,80 mi of extension, forests of ñirre, coigüe-oak, araucaria and lenga can be crossed. It is started in Pehuenco (snack area) and concludes in the viewpoint of the same name.

Anay Hill

Sector of 3,11 mi of extension. It is apt for all kind of public. In the passage beautiful Places can be appreciated.

The Arbol (tree) or Repu Aliwen

Ideal to be visited that by people of any age, because it is of 2.296,59 feet of extension.

Marsh Cabería or Pehuenco

Special for children since it is very educative. There is a unit of millenarian araucaria. The passage starting in Pehuenco and follows by the Picoiquén River side.

It is possible to accede to the park through three points. From the Angol city by the White Fertile valleys way are 22,99 mi by debris way, the first 13,67 mi, the rest corresponds to debris way. It is possible to transit by this way during spring and summer, because the rest of the year is only appropriate for traction vehicles. The second alternative is from the city of Cañete, in the sector of the Bío-Bío, to the north ahead. It correspond to 29,83 mi of trip by the Cayucupil valley, way to the Chacay ranch. Finally, the third via also it is possible to be taken from Antihuala, Province of Araucanía, are 37,28 mi of debris way.

The administration of the area is in the sector of Pehuenco to 26,10 mi of Angol. The activities are interrupted during the autumn-winter period, due to the climatic conditions. The inner doors are located in the limit this of the Park, to 3,11 mi of the administration. The activities are developed in the place all through the year. The schedules attentions to the visitor are from 8am to 13 and of 14 to 20 hours. In addition, is Cotico located to 7,46 mi of the administration. The activities for the public are developed during the summer period and Pichimahuel located to 4,35 mi of the administration.

Places of tourist interest bordering to Nahuelbuta National Park

Cañete

The name "Cañete" identifies so much to the city as the commune belongs to the province of Arauco which as well composes the Bio-Bio region. Manifold activities in the zone are distinguishing the main ones derive from the Forest sectors, Farming and Tourism. Because is the land of mapuches ancestors here exists a good number of inhabitants descending of this town. It is one of the first cities founded in Chile destroyed return to found several times, playing a main role in the Arauco war.

The Cañete history is one of the older histories of our country, we said already that is one of the first cities that the conquerors found, was founded by Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza in the summer of 1557-1558, after successive re-foundations and destructions from the original inhabitants of this land, mapuches, is founded on its present location in 1868 by Cornelio Saavedra.

But the place in which today the commune of Cañete is located has a previous history even, to the first foundation, is the mythical Tucapel Fort, that in its surroundings the first "conqueror" of Chile dies.

It has been a constant debates subject, on the date of the first foundation of Cañete, the caution at which the historians have handled in the possible original date, is due that is not has found any document, which this date has been clearly established; therefore there will be no historian who boasts of so, without concerning the merits that he has, that can guarantee a date like this without the endorsement of a document that for that reason credits it because history is a science.

Mapuche Museum of Cañete

The Mapuche Museum of Cañete is a conscientious institution of the objective for which it was created. To pay Homage to the Mapuche Culture. Homage that during the last 25 years has been oriented towards the collecting, conservation and diffusion of different objects material pertaining to the mapuche culture which has been collected and donated by individuals and/or through projects of rescue made by the Direction of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DIBAM), and that at the moment conform important part of the collection.

Tucapel Fort

The Tucapel Fort is one of the first Spanish settlements in the conquest, founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1552, cradle in great part of the Deed of Arauco who Ercilla describes in its epic poem the Araucana.

The location of the Tucapel Fort is what today it occupies the city of Cañete in the North sector, considered a Historical Monument, great part of its lands today is into the hands of particulars, another part lodges the Municipal Gymnasium and the Local Grammar school.

The historical value of the Tucapel Fort is in which this Spanish military location was witness of the disputes that were carried out between Araucanos and Spanish.

The Tucapel Fort was reconstructed several times before the continuous indigenous attacks, finishing generally with the complete destruction of the fort. In the battle of Tucapel, the toqui (general mapuche) Lautaro takes prisoner to the conqueror, who was executed by the cacique Leucotón of a mallet blow, by the end of December of 1553.

Efforts in the last years have allowed reconstructing some vestiges with construction that emulate what it would have been at different times.

Without a doubt, it constitutes the main historical center of the commune, that lodges a beautiful landscape in front of the valley of the river that takes its name, only and dumb witness who keeps the important passages of national history.

Lanalhue Lake
(Lost Soul)

The Lanalhue Lake is located to 6,21 mi South of the Cañete city and to about 4,35 mi to North of Contulmo town, great part of the highway between these localities surrounds the shore by this beautiful Lanalhue Lake, of tempered water that each season the tourist enjoys more and more.

In the last years innumerable tourist cabins of diverse characteristics, oriented to the familiar rest or greater groups, many with great comforts and good service to the tourists have been settled here.

Lleu-Lleu Lake

The lake Lleu Lleu, that in mapuche voice means to melt or to crumble, is located to 39,37 feet above the sea level and 8,70 mi to the southwest of Contulmo. It has a surface of 10,63 acres. The Lleu-Lleu Lake is located on the mountain range of Nahuelbuta, to this solitary lake of steep edge, is considerer the purest lake of Latin America, its waters are calm and is communicated with the sea.

Next to the bridge on the river that drains it there is a small port with boats that offer circuits by the four arms of this spectacular lake that is between hills, cliffs and solitary beaches surrounded by native forest. Its four arms go into small valleys, flooded in winter. It is a place privileged by its natural beauties. In addition, different to the Lanalhue Lake, the tourism intervention is less.

Between the most important attractive of the place are the Sector Port Shock, Lolcura, Huillinco and birth of the Lleu Lleu River. The lake is apt to make nautical sports and sail in boat. There are abundance of fishing of high quality, as the fishing of trout, salmon and pejerrey, because it has of the most virgin waters of our country. Count with infrastructure like cabins and camping.

Tirúa
(Reborn)

The commune of Tirúa is located in the South end of the Province of Arauco, has a population of 9,664 inhabitants in great majority compose by mapuches.

Through Tirúa used to pass the only authorized way by mapuches, between Concepcion and Valdivia, from XVII century to aims of XIX century.

In 1844 the scientist Ignacio Domeyko, at the request of the Government, made this trip to describe to the reality of the Araucanía and its inhabitants. Today, the Route of the Sea, opened by the military engineers, modern but, rocky and a good layout, crosses last spurs of the mountain range of the Coast, next to the sea, and lines up towards the south to arrive until Mehuín in its present stage.

Quidico

To spend a weekend in Quidico, is almost common for many Cañetinean people, today with excellent highway, where in 45 minutes are covered little more than 37,28 mi towards the south and coast.

Quidico belongs to the commune of Tirúa that is 9,32 mi to the south, is a town, rivulet and tourist place with an ample and safe beach to cross and to bathe when there are days without wind.

Quidico offers good distraction alternative, it has the premises to taste seafood of good level and most of the year’s days opened, in special the weekends and an ample schedule, which is not possible to find in any other locality of the province.

If staid extends by the complete weekend, there are good cabins and a hotel of good level.

Nahuelbuta National Park is the only sector of the Mountain range of the Coast where there are greater concentrations of araucarias, in addition lenga, mañío of long leaf, oak and coigüe. The fauna of Nahuelbuta National Park is made up of foxes chilotes, pudú, churrín, chucao, quique and black carpenter who is in extinction, among others.

The climate in the sector of Nahuelbuta National Park is tempered warm with 6 months of rain. The summer is dry and warm and from June to September the snow storm appears. The annual temperature is of 13º C. Nahuelbuta National Park counts with excursion footpaths like the Stone of the Eagle, Hill Anay, the Arbol or Repu Aliwen.

The area of camping of Nahuelbuta National Park is in Pehuenco, located immediate to the administration and counts on 10 sites with table, banks, rustic furnaces, water, laundries, and baths. Is to 26,10 mi of the Angol city and 36,04 mi of Cañete. Open to the public all the year.

It is possible to arrive at Nahuelbuta National Park from Temuco to Angol and vice versa in the Bus Terminal of Bío Bío located in Lautaro Street #853 with 22 dayly departures from Monday to Saturday and 16 the Sundays.

There are varied places where it is possible to encamp inside of Nahuelbuta National Park.




Pehuenco

It is located in a space near the administration area of Nahuelbuta National Park. The 11 sites count with tables, banks, furnace, potable water, laundries, hygienic rustic services and places for the rest with natural shade. The area has a footpath of natural interpretation, denominated “the Tree” or “Repu- Aliwen”.

Coimallín

It is located to 3,11 mi of the administration area of Nahuelbuta National Park, with 4 sites of picnic, tables, furnaces, waste baskets and water.

Nahuelbuta National Park counts with the following footpaths of excursion

Stone the Eagle

Through 2,80 mi of extension, forests of ñirre, coigüe-oak, araucaria and lenga can be crossed. It is started in Pehuenco (snack area) and concludes in the viewpoint of the same name.

Anay Hill

Sector of 3,11 mi of extension. It is apt for all kind of public. In the passage beautiful Places can be appreciated.

The Arbol (tree) or Repu Aliwen

Ideal to be visited that by people of any age, because it is of 2.296,59 feet of extension.

Marsh Cabería or Pehuenco

Special for children since it is very educative. There is a unit of millenarian araucaria. The passage starting in Pehuenco and follows by the Picoiquén River side.

It is possible to accede to the park through three points. From the Angol city by the White Fertile valleys way are 22,99 mi by debris way, the first 13,67 mi, the rest corresponds to debris way. It is possible to transit by this way during spring and summer, because the rest of the year is only appropriate for traction vehicles. The second alternative is from the city of Cañete, in the sector of the Bío-Bío, to the north ahead. It correspond to 29,83 mi of trip by the Cayucupil valley, way to the Chacay ranch. Finally, the third via also it is possible to be taken from Antihuala, Province of Araucanía, are 37,28 mi of debris way.

The administration of the area is in the sector of Pehuenco to 26,10 mi of Angol. The activities are interrupted during the autumn-winter period, due to the climatic conditions. The inner doors are located in the limit this of the Park, to 3,11 mi of the administration. The activities are developed in the place all through the year. The schedules attentions to the visitor are from 8am to 13 and of 14 to 20 hours. In addition, is Cotico located to 7,46 mi of the administration. The activities for the public are developed during the summer period and Pichimahuel located to 4,35 mi of the administration.

Places of tourist interest bordering to Nahuelbuta National Park

Cañete

The name "Cañete" identifies so much to the city as the commune belongs to the province of Arauco which as well composes the Bio-Bio region. Manifold activities in the zone are distinguishing the main ones derive from the Forest sectors, Farming and Tourism. Because is the land of mapuches ancestors here exists a good number of inhabitants descending of this town. It is one of the first cities founded in Chile destroyed return to found several times, playing a main role in the Arauco war.

The Cañete history is one of the older histories of our country, we said already that is one of the first cities that the conquerors found, was founded by Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza in the summer of 1557-1558, after successive re-foundations and destructions from the original inhabitants of this land, mapuches, is founded on its present location in 1868 by Cornelio Saavedra.

But the place in which today the commune of Cañete is located has a previous history even, to the first foundation, is the mythical Tucapel Fort, that in its surroundings the first "conqueror" of Chile dies.

It has been a constant debates subject, on the date of the first foundation of Cañete, the caution at which the historians have handled in the possible original date, is due that is not has found any document, which this date has been clearly established; therefore there will be no historian who boasts of so, without concerning the merits that he has, that can guarantee a date like this without the endorsement of a document that for that reason credits it because history is a science.

Mapuche Museum of Cañete

The Mapuche Museum of Cañete is a conscientious institution of the objective for which it was created. To pay Homage to the Mapuche Culture. Homage that during the last 25 years has been oriented towards the collecting, conservation and diffusion of different objects material pertaining to the mapuche culture which has been collected and donated by individuals and/or through projects of rescue made by the Direction of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DIBAM), and that at the moment conform important part of the collection.

Tucapel Fort

The Tucapel Fort is one of the first Spanish settlements in the conquest, founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1552, cradle in great part of the Deed of Arauco who Ercilla describes in its epic poem the Araucana.

The location of the Tucapel Fort is what today it occupies the city of Cañete in the North sector, considered a Historical Monument, great part of its lands today is into the hands of particulars, another part lodges the Municipal Gymnasium and the Local Grammar school.

The historical value of the Tucapel Fort is in which this Spanish military location was witness of the disputes that were carried out between Araucanos and Spanish.

The Tucapel Fort was reconstructed several times before the continuous indigenous attacks, finishing generally with the complete destruction of the fort. In the battle of Tucapel, the toqui (general mapuche) Lautaro takes prisoner to the conqueror, who was executed by the cacique Leucotón of a mallet blow, by the end of December of 1553.

Efforts in the last years have allowed reconstructing some vestiges with construction that emulate what it would have been at different times.

Without a doubt, it constitutes the main historical center of the commune, that lodges a beautiful landscape in front of the valley of the river that takes its name, only and dumb witness who keeps the important passages of national history.

Lanalhue Lake
(Lost Soul)

The Lanalhue Lake is located to 6,21 mi South of the Cañete city and to about 4,35 mi to North of Contulmo town, great part of the highway between these localities surrounds the shore by this beautiful Lanalhue Lake, of tempered water that each season the tourist enjoys more and more.

In the last years innumerable tourist cabins of diverse characteristics, oriented to the familiar rest or greater groups, many with great comforts and good service to the tourists have been settled here.

Lleu-Lleu Lake

The lake Lleu Lleu, that in mapuche voice means to melt or to crumble, is located to 39,37 feet above the sea level and 8,70 mi to the southwest of Contulmo. It has a surface of 10,63 acres. The Lleu-Lleu Lake is located on the mountain range of Nahuelbuta, to this solitary lake of steep edge, is considerer the purest lake of Latin America, its waters are calm and is communicated with the sea.

Next to the bridge on the river that drains it there is a small port with boats that offer circuits by the four arms of this spectacular lake that is between hills, cliffs and solitary beaches surrounded by native forest. Its four arms go into small valleys, flooded in winter. It is a place privileged by its natural beauties. In addition, different to the Lanalhue Lake, the tourism intervention is less.

Between the most important attractive of the place are the Sector Port Shock, Lolcura, Huillinco and birth of the Lleu Lleu River. The lake is apt to make nautical sports and sail in boat. There are abundance of fishing of high quality, as the fishing of trout, salmon and pejerrey, because it has of the most virgin waters of our country. Count with infrastructure like cabins and camping.

Tirúa
(Reborn)

The commune of Tirúa is located in the South end of the Province of Arauco, has a population of 9,664 inhabitants in great majority compose by mapuches.

Through Tirúa used to pass the only authorized way by mapuches, between Concepcion and Valdivia, from XVII century to aims of XIX century.

In 1844 the scientist Ignacio Domeyko, at the request of the Government, made this trip to describe to the reality of the Araucanía and its inhabitants. Today, the Route of the Sea, opened by the military engineers, modern but, rocky and a good layout, crosses last spurs of the mountain range of the Coast, next to the sea, and lines up towards the south to arrive until Mehuín in its present stage.

Quidico

To spend a weekend in Quidico, is almost common for many Cañetinean people, today with excellent highway, where in 45 minutes are covered little more than 37,28 mi towards the south and coast.

Quidico belongs to the commune of Tirúa that is 9,32 mi to the south, is a town, rivulet and tourist place with an ample and safe beach to cross and to bathe when there are days without wind.

Quidico offers good distraction alternative, it has the premises to taste seafood of good level and most of the year’s days opened, in special the weekends and an ample schedule, which is not possible to find in any other locality of the province.

If staid extends by the complete weekend, there are good cabins and a hotel of good level.