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Pucón (Mapudungun: "entrance to the cordillera") is a Chilean city and commune administered by the municipality of Pucón.[1]

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  1. 81 relations: Administrative divisions of Chile, Adventure travel, Alcalde, Araucanía Region, Araucaria, Argentina, Backpacking (hiking), Boeing 737, Bundestag, Caburgua Lake, Cautín Province, Census, Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chile, Coñaripe, Communes of Chile, Condor, Conquest of Chile, Conquest of the Desert, Cordillera, Cougar, Cunco, Chile, Curarrehue, Electoral divisions of Chile, Equestrianism, Gorbea, Chile, Hiking in Chile, History of mining in Chile, Holiday cottage, Hot spring, Huerquehue National Park, International scale of river difficulty, Kayaking, Lahar, Lake Oswego, Lake Villarrica, Lanín, List of cities in Chile, List of national parks of Chile, List of sovereign states, Llaima, Loncoche, Mamuil Malal Pass, Mapuche language, Mocho-Choshuenco, Municipal council, Municipality, National Renewal (Chile), National Statistics Institute (Chile), Nothofagus dombeyi, ... Expand index (31 more) »

  2. Populated lakeshore places in Chile
  3. Populated places in Cautín Province

Administrative divisions of Chile

The administrative division or territorial organization of Chile exemplifies characteristics of a unitary state.

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Adventure travel

Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.

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Alcalde

Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

See Pucón and Alcalde

Araucanía Region

The Araucanía, La Araucanía Region (Región de La Araucanía) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions, and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south.

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Araucaria

Araucaria (original pronunciation) is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Backpacking (hiking)

Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back while hiking for more than a day.

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Boeing 737

The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington.

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Bundestag

The Bundestag ("Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament and the lower of two federal chambers, opposed to the upper chamber, the Bundesrat.

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Caburgua Lake

Caburgua Lake is located 23 km northeast of the city of Pucón, in the La Araucanía Region of Chile.

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Cautín Province

Cautín Province (Provincia de Cautín) is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía (IX), bounded on the north by Arauco and Malleco provinces, on the east by Argentina, on the south by Valdivia Province, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados) is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Coñaripe

Coñaripe is a Chilean town and resort area, located on the shore of Calafquén Lake. Pucón and Coñaripe are Populated lakeshore places in Chile.

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Communes of Chile

A commune (comuna) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.

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Condor

Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus.

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Conquest of Chile

The Conquest of Chile is a period in Chilean historiography that starts with the arrival of Pedro de Valdivia to Chile in 1541 and ends with the death of Martín García Óñez de Loyola in the Battle of Curalaba in 1598, and the destruction of the Seven Cities in 1598–1604 in the Araucanía region.

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Conquest of the Desert

The Conquest of the Desert (Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during the 1870s and 1880s with the intention of establishing dominance over Patagonia, inhabited primarily by indigenous peoples.

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Cordillera

A cordillera is an extensive chain and/or network system of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Cunco, Chile

Cunco is a Chilean commune and city in Cautín Province, Araucanía Region. Pucón and Cunco, Chile are communes of Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

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Curarrehue

Curarrehue is a town and commune in Cautín Province of Araucanía Region, Chile. Pucón and Curarrehue are communes of Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

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Electoral divisions of Chile

Chile has two distinct electoral division systems.

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.

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Gorbea, Chile

Gorbea is a Chilean city and commune located in Cautín Province, Araucanía Region. Pucón and Gorbea, Chile are communes of Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

See Pucón and Gorbea, Chile

Hiking in Chile

Hiking in Chile is characterized by a wide range of environments and climates for hikers, which largely results from Chile's unusual, ribbon-like shape, which is 4,300 kilometres (2,700 miles) long and on average 175 kilometres (109 miles) wide.

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History of mining in Chile

During most of Chile's history, from 1500 to the present, mining has been an important economic activity.

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Holiday cottage

A holiday cottage, holiday home, vacation home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations, corporate travel, and temporary housing often for less than 30 days.

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Hot spring

A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.

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Huerquehue National Park

Huerquehue National Park is located in the foothills of the Andes, in the Valdivian temperate rainforest of the La Araucanía region in southern Chile.

See Pucón and Huerquehue National Park

International scale of river difficulty

The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid.

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Kayaking

Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving over water.

See Pucón and Kayaking

Lahar

A lahar (from ꦮ꧀ꦭꦲꦂ) is a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water.

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Lake Oswego

Lake Oswego is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County, with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties.

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Lake Villarrica

Lake Villarrica, also known as Mallalafquén (its pre-Hispanic name is Mapudungun), is located about 700 kilometers south of Santiago in Chile's Lake District in the southeast area of the Province of Cautín.

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Lanín

Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-shaped stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile.

See Pucón and Lanín

List of cities in Chile

This is a list of cities in Chile.

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List of national parks of Chile

There are 42 national parks in Chile covering a total area of 13,206,810 hectares.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Llaima

The Llaima Volcano is one of the largest and most active volcanoes in Chile.

See Pucón and Llaima

Loncoche

Loncoche (Mapudungun for "head of an important person") is a city and commune in Cautín Province in the Araucanía Region, southern Chile. Pucón and Loncoche are communes of Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

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Mamuil Malal Pass

Mamuil Malal Pass (Mapudungun for corral of wooden sticks) is an international mountain pass in the Andes between Chile and Argentina.

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Mapuche language

Mapuche (from mapu 'land' and che 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') or Mapudungun (from mapu 'land' and dungun 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also spelled Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people.

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Mocho-Choshuenco

Mocho-Choshuenco (Pronounced) is a glacier covered compound stratovolcano in the Andes of Los Ríos Region, Chile.

See Pucón and Mocho-Choshuenco

Municipal council

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.

See Pucón and Municipal council

Municipality

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.

See Pucón and Municipality

National Renewal (Chile)

National Renewal (Renovación Nacional, RN) is a liberal conservative political party in Chile.

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National Statistics Institute (Chile)

The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile, INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law.

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Nothofagus dombeyi

Nothofagus dombeyi, Dombey's beech, coigue, coihue or coigüe (from Mapudungun koywe) is a tree species native to southern Chile and the Andean parts of Argentine Patagonia.

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Nothofagus pumilio

Nothofagus pumilio, the lenga beech (from the Mapuche language), is a deciduous tree or shrub in the Nothofagaceae family that is native to the southern Andes range, in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego, from 35° to 56° South latitude.

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Occupation of Araucanía

The Occupation of Araucanía or Pacification of Araucanía (1861–1883) was a series of military campaigns, agreements and penetrations by the Chilean army and settlers into Mapuche territory which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chilean national territory.

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Parachuting

Parachuting and skydiving is a method of transiting from a high point in an atmosphere to the ground or ocean surface with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes.

See Pucón and Parachuting

Placer deposit

In geology, a placer deposit or placer is an accumulation of valuable minerals formed by gravity separation from a specific source rock during sedimentary processes.

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Provinces of Chile

A province is a second-level administrative division in Chile.

See Pucón and Provinces of Chile

Pucón Airport

Pucón Airport (Aeropuerto Pucón) is an airport east of Pucón, a city on the eastern shore of Villarrica Lake in the Araucanía Region of Chile.

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Pudu

The pudus (Mapudungun püdü or püdu, pudú) are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world's smallest deer.

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Quetrupillán

Quetrupillán ("blunted", "mutilated"; also known as Ketropillán; the name is sometimes applied to the neighbouring Lanín volcano.) is a stratovolcano located in Los Ríos Region of Chile.

See Pucón and Quetrupillán

Radical Party of Chile (2018)

The Radical Party of Chile (Partido Radical de Chile), is a classical radical political party in Chile.

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Rafting

Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water.

See Pucón and Rafting

Regions of Chile

Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular), which are the country's first-level administrative division.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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San Martín de los Andes

San Martín de los Andes is a city in the south-west of the, serving as the administration centre of the Lácar Department.

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Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas.

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Senate of Chile

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile.

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Skiing

Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.

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Temuco

Temuco is a city and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. Pucón and Temuco are communes of Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

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Time in Chile

Time in Chile is divided into three time zones.

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Tinquilco Lake

Tinquilco Lake is one of several lakes in Huerquehue National Park in the La Araucanía Region in southern Chile.

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Toltén

Toltén is a Chilean commune located at the lower flows Toltén River at the southern coast of Cautín Province which is part of Araucanía Region. Pucón and Toltén are communes of Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

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Trancura River

Trancura River (also known as Pucón River or Minetúe River) is a river located in the La Araucanía Region of Chile.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Chile

The University of Chile (Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.

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Valdivian temperate forests

The Valdivian temperate forests (NT0404) is an ecoregion on the west coast of southern South America, in Chile and Argentina.

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Villarrica (volcano)

Villarrica (Volcán Villarrica, Ruka Pillañ) is one of Chile's most active volcanoes, rising above the lake and town of the same name, south of Santiago.

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Villarrica National Park

Villarrica National Park is located in the Andes, in the La Araucanía and Los Ríos regions of Chile, near Pucón.

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Villarrica National Reserve

Villarrica National Reserve is a national reserve in Chile.

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Villarrica, Chile

Villarrica is a city and commune in southern Chile located on the western shore of Villarrica Lake in the Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region south of Santiago and close to the Villarrica Volcano ski center to the south east. Pucón and Villarrica, Chile are communes of Chile, Populated lakeshore places in Chile and Populated places in Cautín Province.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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Zip line

A zip-line, zip line, zip-wire, flying fox, or death slideWho Really Benefits from Tourism, Publ.

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See also

Populated lakeshore places in Chile

Populated places in Cautín Province

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pucón

Also known as Pucón, Chile.

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