Puyuhuapi (Puyuguapi) is a village in southern

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 ...

in the

Aysén Region The Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region ( es, Región de Aysén, , '), often shortened to Aysén Region or Aisén,Examples of name usage1, official regional government site refers to the region as "Región de Aysén"., Chile's of ...

. It is located on Route 7, the

Carretera Austral The Carretera Austral (CH-7, ''in English: Southern Way'') is the name given to Chile's Route 7. The highway runs south for about from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins, passing through rural Patagonia. Carretera Austral provides road access t ...

, where the Rio Pascal enters the head of the Puyuhuapi fjord, a small fjord off the Ventisquero Sound. Its harbor on the fjord is called Puerto Puyuhuapi. Puyuhuapi is administratively in the Chilean

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Cisnes Cisnes (Spanish for: "port swans") is a Chilean commune located in the Aysén Province, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region. The commune spans an area of . Demographics According to data from the 2002 Census of Population a ...

. In the 2002 census it had a population of 535, but by 2007 it had grown to 826. Just southwest of the village are the Puyuhuapi hot springs. The government invited German settlement in the village, which was founded by Sudeten German settlers from Hranice (former German name Rossbach) in present-day

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and Mapuches from

Chiloé Archipelago The Chiloé Archipelago ( es, Archipiélago de Chiloé, , ) is a group of islands lying off the coast of Chile, in the Los Lagos Region. It is separated from mainland Chile by the Chacao Channel in the north, the Sea of Chiloé in the east an ...

. German settlers gave temporary work to the Mapuches in the area, and then they settled with their families, which gave rise to a mestizo population. It is served by

Puyuhuapi Airport Puyuhuapi Airport ( es, Aeropuerto de Puyuhuapi), is an airport south of Puyuhuapi, a small town at the head of a fjord in the Aysén Region of Chile. The airport is on land that projects into the fjord. See also * * *Transport in Chile *List o ...

. Among the local handicrafts are hand-made jerseys.

In popular culture

Puyuhuapi was featured in the 2014 ''

Patagonia Special ''Top Gear: Patagonia Special'' is a full length special that was aired as a two-part episode for the BBC car show '' Top Gear''; the first part was aired on 27 December 2014, while the second part was aired a day later on 28 December. The speci ...

'' episode of '' Top Gear'', and in 2019 on DW News's documentary "On route 7 into the heart of Patagonia"

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Puyuhuapi Populated places in Aysén Province