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    The Carretera Austral (CH-7, in English: Southern Way) is the name given to Chile's Route 7. The highway runs south for about 1,240 kilometers (770 mi)...
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  • 2016 song by American singer Prince Royce Carretera Central (disambiguation) Carretera Austral, Chile Carretera de Cádiz, one of the 11 districts of the...
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    northern portion of Carretera Austral. It had 3,629 inhabitants as of 2017. Hornopirén is an important tourist stop on Chile’s Carretera Austral (Highway 7) and...
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    again, to Quellón on Chiloé Island, and to its continuation as the Carretera Austral. The other part goes east along Chile Route 60, which goes through...
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  • wildlife stand out. In a broad sense, the route also includes the Carretera Austral, which begins south of the Los Lagos Region and crosses through the...
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    didn't have road access to the rest of Chile until 1988, when the Carretera Austral was opened. The town was later named Cochrane in honour of Thomas...
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  • They adjust their expectations, traversing the Aysén region and the Carretera Austral to the port of Chaitén. Here the team elects to cross both the Gulf...
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    showed little interest in exploiting the remote Aisén region. The Carretera Austral southern highway opened in the 1980s. The commune of Coyhaique spans...
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    Province. Villa O'Higgins is connected to the rest of Chile by the Carretera Austral (Southern Highway) – the final 120 km of which were completed southwards...
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    example, the opposition by Douglas Tompkins to the planned route for Carretera Austral in Pumalín Park. A scandal is also brewing about two properties owned...
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    Corcovado. The town is strategically close to the northern end of the Carretera Austral, where the highway goes inland. The Desertores Islands are part of...
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    southwards a well-defined western longitudinal valley, occupied by the Carretera Austral, divides the Andes into two chains, the eastern being the main chain...
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    at the turn of the century. Until the construction of Route 7 (the Carretera Austral, or Southern Highway) in the 1980s, the only overland routes from...
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    km drive from Balmaceda on the Carretera Austral is necessary to reach the park. As of March 2018, the Carretera Austral is only paved between Balmaceda...
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    Chile. Caleta La Arena is located near route CH-7, also known as Carretera Austral, that starts in the city of Puerto Montt, 45 km (28 miles) away. This...
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    southern Chile in the Aysén Region. It is located on Route 7, the Carretera Austral, where the Rio Pascal enters the head of the Puyuhuapi fjord, a small...
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    Sound in southern Chile. It lies along the northernmost portion of Carretera Austral. It had 671 inhabitants as of 2017. In colonial times Contao was a...
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    to the southernmost portion of Carretera Austral and constitutes thus the only discontinuous section of Carretera Austral south of Chaitén. The fjord receives...
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  • airstrip in the Aysén Region of Chile. A service road connects it to the Carretera Austral. The nearest town is Cochrane, 60 kilometres (37 mi) to the northeast...
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    Yanteles. This preserved area has one public access trail along the Carretera Austral. Corcovado National Park represents an innovative joint public/ private...
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  • traditions. Also is remarkable its temperate rainforests. The scenic Carretera Austral crosses or is nearby to many of the most popular destinations in this...
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    by the municipal government of Puerto Aysén. The town lies by the Carretera Austral in an Andean valley. "Ciudades, pueblos, aldeas y caceríos 2019" (PDF)...
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    Chiloe on the other side of the Gulf of Corcovado. Traffic on the Carretera Austral along the western shore of Yelcho Lake was interrupted in December...
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    of the city of Puerto Montt and close to northernmost section of Carretera Austral. The wetland has been the site of various studies of waders and marine...
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  • (es), a small town in the Aysén Region of Chile. La Junta is on the Carretera Austral highway, 50 kilometres (31 mi) inland from the Gulf of Corcovado....
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  • a lakeside hamlet (Spanish: caserío) at the outflow of Yelcho Lake in Chaitén commune, southern Chile. Carretera Austral passes by the hamlet. v t e...
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    after Cerro Castillo, its highest mountain and main attraction. The Carretera Austral passes through the park. Named a national reserve in 1970, Cerro Castillo...
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  • magnificent landscape of narrow channels and solitary islands. The Carretera Austral requires the use of three ferries: a 30-minute crossing about 45 kilometers...
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  • that separates Chiloé from the continent and another route named Carretera Austral (Spanish for Southern Highway) that was opened in the 1980s. The southern...
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    municipality, headed by an alcalde: Cochrane, O'Higgins and Tortel. Carretera Austral "Territorial division of Chile" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics...
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