Las Araucarias, Carahue
Las Araucarias | |
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| Region | UTC-3 (Chilean Daylight) |
| Area code | Country + town = 56 + 45 |
Las Araucarias is a hamlet (Spanish: caserío) in Araucanía Region, Chile.[3] It is located at 640 m asl. in Cordillera de Nahuelbuta next to a small remnant of some of the southernmost Araucaria araucana trees in the Chilean Coast Range.[4] By 1950 there were 1000 ha of Araucaria araucana forest around Las Araucarias, but by 2016 only 40 ha remained,[5] of which 10,3 ha are protected in the Villa las Araucarias site.[4]
Notes
- ^ "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ "Municipality of Carahue" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ a b c "Ciudades, pueblos, aldeas y caceríos 2019" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute. 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
- ^ a b "Villa las Araucarias" (in Spanish). Ministry of National Assets. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ "Manuel Gedda: "Los bosques de araucaria son el único testimonio vivo de la era jurásica que queda en el planeta"". uc.cl (in Spanish). 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2023-05-08.