Calbuco Island
Calbuco Island (also Caicaén Island) is an island in the commune of Calbuco, Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, Chile. The city of Calbuco is on the island. The island was separated from the mainland by Calbuco Channel, but a causeway was built in 1965 to connect the island to the continent.[1]
Native name: Isla Calbuco | |
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 See topography and toponym of the Region | |
  Calbuco Island | |
| Geography | |
| Coordinates | 41.78014°S 73.13951°W |
| Adjacent to | Reloncaví Sound, Pacific ocean |
| Administration | |
| Region | Los Lagos |
| Province | Llanquihue |
| Commune | Calbuco |
| Additional information | |
| NGA UFI -874659 | |
In 1603 the Spanish under the command of Francisco Hernández Ortiz-Pizarrro established a fort on the island to protect their settlements in the Gulf of Ancud.[2]
Notes and references
- Instituto Hidrográfico (1981). Derrotero de la Costa de Chile: Volumen II. Desde el Canal de Chacao hasta el Golfo de Penas (5th ed.). Valparaíso, Chile: Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada. p. 89.
- Mansilla Almonacid, José D. (2002). "La población de Calbuco evolución de las cifras. Siglos XVII-XX" (PDF). Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales (in Spanish). 6: 125–134.
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