Calbuco Archipelago is located in the
Reloncaví Sound
Reloncaví Sound or ''Seno de Reloncaví'' is a body of water immediately south of Puerto Montt, a port city in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. It is the place where the Chilean Central Valley meets the Pacific Ocean.
The Calbuco Archipelago c ...
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Llanquihue Province
Llanquihue Province ( es, Provincia de Llanquihue) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Los Lagos (X). Its capital is Puerto Montt. Chile's second largest lake, Lake Llanquihue, is located in the province as well as four volcanoes: ...
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Los Lagos Region
Los Lagos Region ( es, Región de Los Lagos , ''Region of the Lakes'') is one of Chile's 16 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena. The region contains ...
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...
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The archipelago is composed of 14 islands.
List of islands
The islands are:
# Puluqui
# Caicué / Lagartija
# Queulín
#
Chaullín / Helvecia (not to be confused with
Chaullin Island (Chiloe))
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Huar / Guar
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Abtao
# Chidhuapi
# Quenu
# Quihua
# Tautil
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Calbuco
Calbuco is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Calbuco. Administratively Calbuco belongs to the Llanquihue Province of Los Lagos Region. The origin of the city was the Spanish Fort Calbuco founded in 1603, a ...
/ Caicaén
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Tabón
# Mayelhue
# Lín
The last three islands, Tabon, Mayelhue and Lin, are by
low tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Tide tables ...
only one island.
References
External links
Calbuco Archipelago,
Archipelagoes of Chile
Islands of Los Lagos Region
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
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