Punta Curiñanco

Área Costera Protegida Punta Curiñanco is a natural reserve from the city of Valdivia, Chile. The park has an area of on the headland of Punta Curiñanco at just at the northern end of Curiñanco beach and village and on the western side of the Valdivian Coast Range. Punta Curiñanco covers area that includes different types of Valdivian temperate rain forest as well as coastal shrublands, wetlands and sea-side rocks.

Flora and fauna

Punta Curiñanco is vegetated by a coastal association of Valdivian forest. Among the tree species that can be found are Aextoxicon punctatum, Luma apiculata, Eucryphia cordifolia, Persea lingue, Drimys winteri, Embothrium coccineum, Amomyrtus meli and Lomatia ferruginea. The olivillos of Punta Curiñanco form pure forests.
As for mammals, pumas, pudús, chungungos, chilla foxes, guiñas, and sea lions are known to be present in the protected area. Some of the birds that have been observed in the reserve are the Cinclodes nigrofumosus, the Elaenia albiceps, the Phalacrocorax gaimardi and the Buteo polyosoma.