Commune of Lebu

This city is located to 91 Kilometers of Arauco, its you limit they are for the north Arauco; to the southeast The Poplars; to the east, Curanilahue, and to the west, the Ocean Pacific. It has an extension of 562,9 Km2 of surface and 25.035 inhabitants.

The commune of Lebu, provincial capital, has diverse attractions of tourist character, in its majority related with the mining activity, the coast and the marine gastronomy.


The most important economic activity until a couple of years ago it was the extraction of the black mineral that goes back by the middle of the XIX century, initiative developed then in those by Matías Rioseco Rivera and that later it would be renewed by Maximiliano Errázuriz and José Torres Urmeneta; at the present time, the company is low the administration of the National Company of the Coal CORP. (ENACAR). Today in day Lebu has ended up becoming one of the main ports of handmade fishing of the country, ending up providing around 30% in the capture, to regional scale.

As arriving

From Concepción you 145 kms should travel. toward the south, to cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío and to take the Route 160 Lebu-Concepción, it will go by Colonel, Lota, Chivilingo, Laraquete until arriving to Carampangue from this continuous town the Route of the Araucanian for the interior until Curanilahuerecorre 24km. it arrives to The Poplars it rotates haciala coast (west) 26 km travels. And it arrives to Lebu.

From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that it goes to Angol. Once in Angol it should take the route R-86 to the town of The Sallows and then the route R-60-P that will leave it in Contulmo, it travels 53 km. toward the north until The Poplars tour toward the coast (west) and it travels 26km. and it arrives to the city of Lebu.

• Service Restoration

Complex Tourist "Millaneco"

CONTACT: Jorge Castro.
CAPACITY: 200 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT
National - International

TYPICAL PLATES
Conger Millaneco………………………….. $8 dollars
Caldillo of Conger……………………….…. $6 dollars
Hot marshal…………………………………. $6 dollars

OTHER SERVICES
Living room of Events - Discotheque - Pool
Cabins - Infantile Games

ADDRESS
Mouth North Lebu S/N - Phon / Fax: 41-511540
Email: Jorge@hosteriamillaneco.cl

Restaurant "The Terrace", Complex Tourist Leufu South

CONTACT: Cristian Silva.
CAPACITY: 38 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT
Shellfish - Fish - White and Red Meats.

TYPICAL PLATES
Hot marshal..…………………………………... $$5 dollars
Male to the Parmesan………………………... $$8 dollars
Conger in Sauce of Shellfish…….……………. $7 dollars
Reineta in Sauce of Shellfish..……………...… $6 dollars

OTHER SERVICES
Events - Service of Banquetería - Parking
Feeding service until the 24 hours and Bar up to 2 o'clock AM

ADDRESS
Whitewashed Blanco N° 250, Local N°2 - Lebu
Phons: 41-511825/09-6988273

• Attractions of the Commune of LEBU

Category:

Description: Historical.

MANSION ERRAZURIZ (1884).

Located in Mouth-Lebu.

Built probably in 1884 and dedicated to be the house room of the administrators of the carboniferous company. The constructive solution remembers to the English pavilion of the mining town of High Lota. Surrendered in free loan to the Municipality.

Category: Cultural.

Description:

MUSEUM TAMAYA

The Paleontological, Mineralogical, Archaeological, and Historical Museum "TAMAYA", it is an entity created in 1998, as Playing where the visitor will be able to know our past from a wider perspective, where we will have shortcut to organisms that have existed she makes millions of years and, for ende, they have played a preponderant paper in the organic evolution. This place took to the visitor in a fascinating trip to the same origin of the life and he/she gave him up-to-date data about the world paleontological work.

Category: Natural.

Description:

Caverns of Benavides

It is located to 3 Km. to the north of downtown of Lebu in the tourist sector Millaneco. It is a natural rocky formation of big dimensions and that in the time of the beginnings of the Republic of Chile it served as den to the realistic montonero Vicente Benavides who hid in the grottos of this cavern that stolen to the farmers of the area.