Vicente Pérez Rosales (; 5 April 1807 – 6 September 1886) was a politician, traveller, merchant, miner and

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that organised the colonisation by Germans and Chileans of the Llanquihue area.

Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park () is located in Los Lagos Region, Llanquihue Province, of Chile. Its western entrance is close to the Ensenada locality, northeast of the provincial capital of Puerto Montt, and from Puerto Varas along Ruta ...

is named after him.

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1807 births 1886 deaths People from Santiago Chilean people of Spanish descent National Party (Chile, 1857) politicians Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile Members of the Senate of Chile Chilean diplomats People of the California Gold Rush Chilean memoirists 19th-century memoirists {{Chile-diplomat-stub

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