Llanquihue Province
Llanquihue Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Los Lagos. Its capital is Puerto Montt.
The region is well known for the beauty of its natural environment as well as for the food and seafood from the ports of Puerto Montt and Calbuco.
Settlement history
European settlement of Llanquihue began in 1852 when Germans were encouraged to immigrate to southern Chile and took up wheat farming. A century later, a new wave of Jewish refugees came from Germany in 1945.Geography
Chile's second largest lake, Lake Llanquihue, is located in the province as well as four volcanoes: Osorno, Calbuco, Puntiagudo and Cerro Tronador.Llanquihue is a region of forests, rivers and lakes, and the greater part is mountainous. In addition to Lake Llanquihue, there are other large lakes in the eastern part of the province—Puyehue, on the
northern frontier, Rupanco, and Todos los Santos. The Calbuco and Osorno volcanoes rise from near its eastern shores, the latter to a height of.
The outlet of Lake Llanquihue is through Maullín River, the lower course of which is navigable. The other large rivers of the province are the Bueno, which receives the waters of Lakes Puyehue and Rupanco, and the Puelo, which has its rise in a lake of the same name in Argentinq. A short tortuous river in this vicinity, called the Petrohué, affords an outlet for the picturesque lake of Todos los Santos, and enters the Reloncaví Sound near the Puelo. The southern coast of the province is indented by a number of inlets and bays affording good fishing.