Puyuhuapi

For the waterway, see Puyuhuapi Channel.
For the group of volcanos, see Puyuhuapi (volcanic group).
Puyuhuapi Harbor

Puyuhuapi (Puyuguapi) is a village in 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 fjord off the Ventisquero Sound.[1] It's harbor on the fjord is called Puerto Puyuhuapi.[2] Puyuhuapi is administratively in the Chilean commune of Cisnes.[1] In the 2002 census it had a population of 535, but by 2007 it had grown to 826.[1] Just southwest of the village are the Puyuhuapi hot springs.[3] Among the local handicrafts are hand-made jerseys.[3]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 "Puerto Puyuhuapi" (in Spanish). Municipalidad de Cisnes. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007.
  2. ↑ Puerto Puyuguapi (Approved - N) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. 1 2 "Puyuhuapi". Visit Chile. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014.

Coordinates: 44°19′29″S 72°33′28″W / 44.32472°S 72.55778°W / -44.32472; -72.55778

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