Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli was a Chilean state-owned company that managed forested lands as well as sawmills in the Los Ríos Region#Andes, Valdivian Cordillera from 1971 to 1988. CFMP managed more than in the zones of Panguipulli, Chile, Panguipulli, Neltume, Chile, Neltume,

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and

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, and had more than three thousand employees. Main ''fundos'' of Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli were, from north to south: *Trafún *Paimún *Punire-Releco *Toledo *Neltume-Carranco *Quechomalal *Pirihueico *Chan Chan *Enco *Pilmaiquén *Arquilhue *Maihue *Carrán As of 1972 the ''fundos'' Neltume and Puñire-Releco had the largest numbers of workers with 470 and 270 employees respectively.

History

In 1971 after several land occupations in the zone of

Neltume Neltume is a Chilean town in Panguipulli commune, of Los Ríos Region. It lies along the 203-CH route to Huahum Pass into Argentina. The town's main economic activities are forestry and, more recently, tourism since the Huilo-Huilo Biological ...

informally known as ''Operación ardillas'' (Spanish for Operation Squirrels) the government of the UP expropriated the fundo Carranes from the ''Sociaded Agrícola y Maderera de Neltume'' creating the Complejo Maderero Panguipulli merging with it other expropriated lands reaching an area of 360.000 ha of wooded terrain. Ponciano del Pino, Elizabeth Jelin
Luchas locales, comunidades e identidades
page 118. Property in

and

, localities outside the proper Neltume area, were also placed under the ''Complejo Maderero Panguipulli''. In 1972 president

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visited Neltume. In the mid-1970s

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chief

Tomás Monfil Tomás Monfil (died 2009) was a Chilean forester, and one of the principal persons behind the reforestation program of CONAF in Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region in the 1960s. Monfil contributed to the reforestation of about in A ...

was installed as director of the enterprise. He started a policy of

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and responsible

forest management Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical aspects, such as silviculture, forest protection, and forest regulation. This includes man ...

avoiding

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and substitution of native species. During the military regime,

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, became president of Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli, a post he held until 1982. He was simultaneously president of CELCO, another forestry company.INFORME COMISION PRIVATIZACIONES CAMARA DE DIPUTADOS 2004
Reviewed on September 29, 2009. During its existence Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli faced several problems such as military interventions and participation of its workers in resistance against the

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, as well as the installment of guerrillas in its lands during the years of 1980–1981. During the later days of the

Pinochet Regime An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990. The dictatorship was established after the Presidency of Salvador Allende, democratically elected socialist government of Salv ...

the

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policies of the

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were applied, substantially reducing

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holdings. CFMP land was divided and sold under obscure circumstances to Chilean

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

s, among them Andrónico Luksic, whose family now owns ''Fundo Chanchan'' and ''Fundo Enco'' along the

Enco River The Enco River (Spanish: ''Río Enco'') is a river in Panguipulli commune in southern Chile. Flowing from Panguipulli Lake to Riñihue Lake, it carries the water of the six upper lakes of the Seven Lakes area into Riñihue, the last lake in the ...

as well as other properties around Neltume. Another wealthy businessman,

Víctor Petermann Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve ( , Pronounced: ) is a private for profit natural reserve and ecotourism area in southern Chile. It is by the community of Neltume along the international road to Hua Hum Pass near the border to Argentina. The res ...

, took control of Fundo Pilmaiquen and established the

Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve ( , Pronounced: ) is a private for profit natural reserve and ecotourism area in southern Chile. It is by the community of Neltume, Chile, Neltume along the international road to Hua Hum Pass near the border to Arge ...

in 1999. It is dedicated to both

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and preservation of

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. Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli effectively ceased to exist in 1988.

Sources

Homenaje al Sivicultor Don Tomás Monfil

References

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