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Pucón (Mapudungun: "entrance to the cordillera") is a Chilean city and commune administered by the municipality of Pucón. It is located in the Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region, 100 km to the southeast of Temuco and 780 km to the south of Santiago.
Villarica stands just east of the Chilean Central Valley as the westernmost of an alignment of three large stratovolcanoes.The alignment is attributed to the existence of an old fracture in the crust, the North West-South East trending Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone, [3] the other volcanoes in the chain, Quetrupillán and Lanín, are far less active.
Villarrica National Park is located in the Andes, in the La Araucanía and Los Ríos regions of Chile, near Pucón.The centerpiece of the park is a line of three volcanoes stretching transversely to the Andean range: Villarrica, Quetrupillán, and Lanín.
Lake Villarrica, also known as Mallalafquén [1] (its pre-Hispanic name is Mapudungun), is located about 700 kilometers south of Santiago in Chile's Lake District in the southeast area of the Province of Cautín.
The Araucanía region is the heartland of the indigenous Mapuche people, who resisted both Incan and Spanish attempts at conquest. After sending many forces against the Mapuche, the Spanish would cut their losses, establishing the southern border of their colony at the northern banks of the Biobío River.
Pucón Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Pucón, IATA: ZPC, ICAO: SCPC) is an airport 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Pucón, a city on the eastern shore of Villarrica Lake in the Araucanía Region of Chile.
Patagonia (Spanish pronunciation: [pataˈɣonja]) is a geographical region that includes parts of Argentina and Chile at the southern end of South America. The region includes the southern section of the Andes mountain chain with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west and deserts, tablelands, and steppes to the east.
Villarrica is a city and commune in southern Chile located on the western shore of Villarrica Lake in the Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region 746 km (464 mi) south of Santiago and close to the Villarrica Volcano ski center to the south east.