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The vicuña (Lama vicugna) or vicuna [3] (both / v ɪ ˈ k uː n j ə /, very rarely spelled vicugna, its former genus name) [4] [5] is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes; the other camelid is the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations.
Some mammals native to the reserve are: the llama, the alpaca, the vicuña, the guanaco, the taruca, the vizcacha, the puma, the Andean mountain cat, the colocolo and the Andean fox. [ 1 ] Among the birds native to the reserve are: the Andean goose , the crested duck , the Andean flamingo , James's flamingo , the Tamarugo conebill , the silvery ...
In San Guillermo National Park, the vicuña is the cougar's main prey species, and constitutes about 80% of its diet. [13] However, they will abandon kills if not cached quickly, as they will often be harassed by birds of prey, such as Andean condors ; the presence of large raptors and other scavenging birds causes South American cougars to ...
The boundary-line shall run in that extent over the highest summits of the said Cordilleras which divide the waters, and shall pass between the sources (of streams) flowing down to either side. Articles 2 and 3 recognise the area around the Strait of Magellan (South of the 52°S) as Chilean as well as the islands south of Beagle Channel .
Bauer tower in the center of Vicuña. The Vicuña commune covers an area of 7,609.8 km 2 (2,938 sq mi), making it the largest commune in both the province and the Coquimbo Region, and the second-largest commune in the country. Vicuña occupies the major part of the mid and upper Elqui River basin, and the entire length of the Turbio river.
Chilean statesman Vicuña Mackenna was a major advocate of Chilean expansionism into Polynesia Policarpo Toro Chile's interest in expanding into the islands of the Pacific Ocean dates to the presidency of José Joaquín Prieto (1831–1841) and the ideology of Diego Portales , who considered that Chile's expansion into Polynesia was a natural ...
Territory legally belonging (with or without effective control) to the Captaincy General or Kingdom of Chile in 1775 according to Chilean historiography. The next year the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was created and the territorios of the cities of Mendoza and San Juan were transferred from Chile to the new entity.