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Conguillío National Park

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level. The slope of this volcano is moderate. It is active from the Superior Pleistocene and their products are mainly pyroclastic lava and andesítico-basaltic. It has an extensive history of violent eruptions of Vulcan and bizarre type that have left remainders of fifty meters of fine sand and volcanic capes very well specified and dregs basaltic lava. Also it presents sulfated smoker around the crater. About of the eruptions there is registry of around 37 eruptions counting of 1852, of which those of 1927 and 1957 were the most violent. This record transforms it into one of the most active volcanoes of Chile.
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Llaima volcano was formed during the Quaternary, on lava and granites located throughout the faults system of longitudinal North – South. It is composed of mixed volcano and shield, with a boiler covered with forty accidental dreg cones and presents a secondary chimney to 9.514,44 feet above the sea
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The best time to visit the Conguillío National Park is between the spring and summer (November to March) when the climate is milder and the roads are in excellent conditions. During the winter, the conditions are perfect to visit the Araucarias ski center. Located in the side west of the Llaima
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If you enter Conguillío National Park by the sector of the Captrén lagoon, on the road from Curacautín, there is a footpath that surrounds the entire lagoon and its extension is of 1.24 miles approximately. It is a long but light walk, apt for experience and inexperienced walkers. In the Captrén
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There is another footpath, the one of the Carpenters, 3,11 miles length, that goes into the Araucarias, coigüe and lenga forests, ending at Laguna Captrén. In this route you will reach the “Araucaria Mother” a species whose trunk has a diameter of 6,56 feet.
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There are 5 lookout points on the Sierra Nevada volcano. It is a long walk, of five to six hours, but efforts are awarded with the panoramic view obtained from this height, for the flight of the condor or the Vista of the beginning point of the Blanco River.
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lagoon it is possible to fish, but it is prohibited to swim or to sail in boat, since it is a sanctuary of birds and this type of intervention can affect local species that inhabit there.
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and Cherquenco. The road is asphalted from Cajón to Cherquenco, the rest gravel, all-weather, except snow days in which chains and four-wheel drive are required.
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volcano, side in opposition to the Conguillío Lake, counts with two tow cables, cafeteria, ski school, equipment rental and lodging in refuge.
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and wild landscapes characterized by islands of vegetation completely surrounded by vast areas of lava flows and is a humid and wet area.
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The last eruption of the volcano was on January 1, 2008. The park had to be evacuated, including about 150 tourists and employees of
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Here is located the main park entrance, which is reached via a road that begins in Temuco and that passes through the towns of
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Hiking options include Sierra Nevada – Los Carpinteros- Las Araucarias – Las Vertientes and Cañón de Truful-Truful.
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to Curacautín. The remaining stretch of road until the park entrance is the same route previously mentioned.
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s and solid material to a thousand feet above the main crater, located to 3,150 meters, authorities said.
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This sector is accessed via the route that connects the towns of Cajón,
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It was declared a national park in 1950. In 1983, the park, along with
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administration office is located in the Conguillío Lake sector.
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The birds found in the park include a large variety of
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Index

IUCN category
national park

Conguillío Lake
Map showing the location of Parque Nacional Conguillío
La Araucanía Region
Chile
Melipeuco
Curacautín
38°40′00″S 71°39′00″W / 38.66667°S 71.65000°W / -38.66667; -71.65000
Corporación Nacional Forestal

Sierra Nevada

Chilla fox

Pudú

Andes
Cautín
Malleco
Araucanía Region
Chile
Region IX
Mapuche
Araucaria
Llaima
Sierra Nevada
Araucarias
Nothofagus

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