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The Magallanes Region (locally [maɣaˈʝanes]), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region (Spanish: Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena) or Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctica Region in English, [4] is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
This list contains: Name of the stream, in Spanish Language; Coordinates are latitude and longitude of the feature in ± decimal degrees, at the mouth of the stream; Link to a map including the Geonameid (a number which uniquely identifies a Geoname feature)
As a province, Magallanes is a second-level administrative division of Chile, headed by a governor who is appointed by the president. It consists of four communes (Spanish: comunas ): Punta Arenas, Río Verde , Laguna Blanca and San Gregorio .
The world's southernmost national park, [5] it is located 12 hours by boat from Puerto Williams in the Cape Horn Archipelago, which belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos in the Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. The park was created in 1945 [2] and includes the Wollaston Islands and the Hermite Islands.
Land adjacent to the Strait of Magellan has been inhabited by indigenous Americans for at least 13,000 years. Upon their arrival in the region, they would have encountered native equines (), the large ground sloth Mylodon, saber toothed cats the extinct jaguar subspecies Panthera onca mesembrina, the bear Arctotherium, the superficially camel-like Macrauchenia, the fox-like canid Dusicyon avus ...
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Del Toro Lake (Spanish: Lago del Toro) is a lake located in the Magallanes Region, southern Chile.The lake is also known as Lago del Toro or Lago Toro (in English Lake Bull) and its name comes from the lake's ability to generate 4 m swells due to a long (~30 km) fetch and high winds aligned with the long axis of the lake.
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