lunes, 8 de junio de 2009

The county of Arauco

The County of Arauco is the most southern in the region. Conformed by seven communes: Arauco, Curanilahue, Contulmo, Tirúa, The Poplars, Cañete and their capital, Lebu. This county has a surface of 5.423.6 km2 where they cohabit about 158 thousand inhabitants approximately. Of these, the 12,7%pertenece to the ethnos Mapuche, becoming the county with bigger autochthonous population of the country.

The territory is characterized by the presence of straits coastal valleys next to the reappearance of the mountain range of Nahuelbuta, besides the existence of the lakes Lanalhue and Lleu Lleu, attractive lakes that attract to tourists' thousands in summer time. In front of the costs of Tirúa one of the three islands of the region, Blunt Island, the one is glimpsed which administratively belongs to the provincial capital, Lebu. Accessible through boats or light planes, this National Reservation is inhabited for less than a thousand people, queens they live for the most part off the agriculture and the fishing.

The county of Arauco is quite privileged since it possesses leafy native, concentrated vegetation mainly in the coast and in the precordillera of the Costa. Inside the range of species, it is possible to admire hazel trees, oaks, ulmos and cinnamon trees; besides araucarias, raulíes and mountain range cypress, among others. In smaller scale lengas is observed, laureles,tineos, lingues, coigües, lumas, mañíos, boldos, quillay and even ñires.

In connection with the fauna, the coastal sector shows the presence of some mammals like the sea wolf, pumas, foxes accuse you, chingues, rabbits, hares, coipos besides some birds like quail, turtledove, choroy, cachaña, ducks, partridge, torcaza, mandola, tucuquere, cahuil and gull franklin. They exist other species that are observed, which traffic for the area in address to The Andes, I eat the black carpenter and the condor for example.

Commune of Tirua

It is the most southern coastal commune in the county of Arauco. It is located to approximately 120 kilometers of the commune of Arauco, it limits to the north with Cañete; to the south with Carahue; to the east with Lumaco; and to the west with the Ocean Pacific. This commune possesses a population that doesn't overcome the 10 thousand inhabitants. The surface is of 629,9 km2 and the ruralidad index reaches 75%.

According to some historians, this town during the XVII century until the conquest of the Araucanía,constituyó the only route among Concepción's yValdivia city. The cacique was the one that controlled the traffic, charging a toll to those that crossed the mountain range for the step of The Pinegroves, among the forests of araucarias, paradescender to Carahue or Trovolhue, stops then to continue for the coast until Valdivia.

Tirúa offers places of remarkable coastal beauty and others of rural court, besides a spa in the town of Quidico. This community is characterized by the strong presence of the ethnos mapuche, element that grants him a rich cultural content, besides interesting development alternatives.
In the coastal area of this town, around 140 families mapuches they are devoted to the gathering of the cochayuyo Durvillea Antarctica, alga that is in the rocky fronts and that it is glimpsed to the moment in that you/they lower the tides. From beginnings of the summer until ends of February is frequent to sight in the route, overflowing carts with this aquatic plant that you/they go toward Temuco, for their commercialization.

It is also famous the craft that women mapuches of Tirúa elaborate, with designs that the tradition of its culture has rooted in them, based on wool and natural tints. In their journey for the commune will be able to find local that will offer him a wide range of products like blankets, scarfs, scarfs, caps, socks and gloves, among others.

As arriving

From Concepción 210 km should travel to arrive to Tirúa. It should cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío and to take laRuta 160 Colonel - Lotaluego for the Route of the Araucanian to go by the town of Laraquete, Carampange, Curanilahue, The Poplars and Cañete;Luego arrive to Peleco and he/she takes the route for the coast (west) 73 Km travels. and it arrives to the city of Tirúa.


From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that he/she goes to Angol. Once in Angol he/she should take the route R-86 to the town of The Sallows and then the route R-60-P that will leave it in the commune of Contulmo, continuous journey toward the north arriving to the crossing of Peleco takes the highway toward the coast (west) about 69 Kms travel. Approximately toward the south and it arrives to Tirúa.


  • Service Restoration


Restaurant "Cüref"

CONTACT: Fernando Fuentealba.

CAPACITY: 150 people.

ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT

Fish - Shellfish - Meats

TYPICAL PLATES

Salmon Cüref……..…………………………….$5 dollars.

Marine Pailas.…………………………………..$5 dollars.

OTHER SERVICES

Lodging - Pool - Court of Tennis - Basketball Living room of Events - Pub

ADDRESS

Coastal S/N, Quidico - Tirúa - Fono/Fax: 41-619999 -

Motive: 09-5387296

www.ecoaventura.cl

Email: director@ecoaventurachile.cl

Restaurant "Miramar"

CONTACT: Mónica Ramírez.

CAPACITY: 80 people.

ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT

Fish - Shellfish - Meats.

TYPICAL PLATES

Turnovers of Shellfish (dozen)..………… $$6 dollars.

Hot marshal……………………………….. $$5 dollars.

Male to the Pilpil………………………….. $$6 dollars.

OTHER SERVICES

Access to Discapacitados Living room of Events - Lodging.

ADDRESS

Coastal S/N Quidico - Tirúa.

Phons: 09-8888362 / 09-8171424


  • Attractions of the Commune of Tirua


Lake Lleu Lleu.

Category: Natural.

Description:

Lake of waters liompias and calm he/she invites it to the rest, to the reencuantro with the nature and to the reflection. Their waters are capable for the bathroom and through walks in boats you can consent to paradisiacal and unexplorable places.

LOCATION:

To 190 km of Concepción. 50 km of Cañete, to 30 km of Tirúa and Contulmo.

Shop Relmu Witral.


Category: Cultural.

Description:

Indigenous association of autonomous character, its name in the language mapuche makes reference to the work of the women (witral, cloths), as well as to its deep connection with the nature (relmu, rainbow), original source of the color and the texture of its works.

LOCATION:

Guerrero s/n (to the side of the firemen, Tirúa).


Commune Of Contulmo

This town located to the southeast of the county and denominated "Place in passing" in Mapudungun, it is located to 193 kilometers to Concepción's south, it limits to the north with Cañete and Curanilahue; to the south with the ninth region; to the west with Tirúa and Quidico and to the east with Purén, Angol and Renaico. It possesses a surface of 650 Km2y it counts with almost six thousand inhabitants, of which 42% resides in the urban area.
The commune of Contulmo was founded as strong in 1868 for Cornelio Saavedra, in its step toward Purén. In 1884 he/she received an immigrant group of artisans and farmers coming from Berlin who gave impulse to the district, even founding the first German school that there was in the country, in 1893. In 1910 the railroad was inaugurated that traveled from Lebu to Peleco, and that in 1938, it crossed the Mountain range of Nahuelbuta; today the brunch is disabled, although it is possible to make the journey and to cross its tunnels in a recreational way.

This commune presents a microclimate that benefits the horticultural activity, especially the cultivation of the murtilla and white strawberry, this last national exclusivity of this area. It is necessary to highlight that this town is near to the two beautiful lakes of the county, the Lanalhue and the Lleu Lleu, where they highlight the sectors of Port Contulmo, in the first one and Huillinco in the second.

Another very important particularity and that it transforms Contulmo into a special town of the rest of the country, it is that in this commune they cohabit to newspaper a trilogy of cultures: descending of the old German colony, communities mapuches and the descendants of Chilean Creoles.
As arriving

From Concepción you 172 km should travel. to arrive to Contulmo. It should cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío to take Route 160 Concepción - High Hill for the Route of the Araucanian, once passing the city of Cañete, in the town of Peleco, takes the Route toward the interior (this), 33 km travels. and it arrives to the commune of Contulmo.

From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that he/she goes to Angol. Once in Angol he/she should take the route R-86 to the town of The Sallows and then the route R-60-P that will leave it in the commune of Contulmo.

  • SERVICE RESTORATION


Restaurant "Ápex"

CONTACT: Isaura Ewert.
CAPACITY: 50 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT
Eat Homemade - Sándwich - Kuchen.

TYPICAL PLATES
Pan with Salad………….……….. $$4 dollars.
Plate of Fund…..………………... $$5 dollars.
Kuchen (portion)……..………….. $$2 dollars.

OTHER SERVICES
Access to Discapacitados Living room of Events Parking

ADDRESS
Ignacio Career Paints S/N - Contulmo - Fono/Fax: 41-618465
Email: isauraewert@yahoo.es



Restaurant "Tatango"

CONTACT: Marta Curin.
CAPACITY: 25 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT
Homemade - German Confectionery.

TYPICAL PLATES
Pan with Salad.……………….............$$3 dollars.
Chicken with Attaché..…………………$$3 dollars.
Meat to the pot with Attaché..………..$$3 dollars.
Lasaña…………………………….....….$$3 dollars.

OTHER SERVICES
Living room of Events - Banquetería.

ADDRESS
Nahuelbuta N° 243 - Contulmo - Phon: 09-3551048

  • Attractions of the Commune of Contulmo


I center handmade and Culture Ruka Lelbun.

Category: Cultural.

Description:

The family Leviqueo builds a ruka traditional mapuche and in her cultural activities are presented: dance, crafts and gastromía.

LOCATION:

Valley of Elicura. I walk Cañete - Contulmo.

Natural monument Contulmo.






category: Natural.

Description:

It was founded in 1941. It is located in the buttresses of the Mountain range of Nahuelbuta. It has a mediterranean climate which is modified by the drop altitude of the sector allowing the penetration of the marine influence and of the western coming humid winds that generate a considerable increment in the precipitations in comparison with the adjacent sectors.

These natural conditions have allowed the growth of a great variety of species like olivillo, ulmo, tepa, tineo, laurel, oak and a dense quila sotobosque, murtilla, ferns and copihue. Under this vegetable formation they take refuge animal species as the puma, fox, monkey of the mount, pudú trusts I trust, hued hued, chucao, cachudito and thrush.

Location: Administratively it is located in the Commune of Purén, County of Malleco, IX Region of the Araucanía; to 6 kilometers at the east of the city of Contulmo and 10 to the west of the city of Purén.

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.

Commune of Arauco

The commune of Arauco is located 71 km. to Concepción's Southwest. It possesses a total of 34.873 inhabitants, of which 69,6% corresponds population seated in the city, its surface fluctuates near to the 957 Km2, and it is known to be the access to the county of Arauco. In 1552, gift Pedro of Valdivia builds the first Strong Spanish, strength that is destroyed in several opportunities by the Mapuches, fact that forces to transfer in 1590, its current location, to the feet of the hill Strained it Strained. In 1886, the commune of Arauco welcomes colonists coming from Europe, French Basque that gave a new impulse to the area.

Arauco or Water of Clay, according to the language would originate; it constitutes cultural historical patrimony due to the countless and wicked episodes that were knitted in their surroundings during the Spanish colonization, as well as to the full places of singular beauty paisajística that highlight when traveling the commune. Their extensive coast of white sands, the presence of creeks and flowing, more those chalky hills, begin a square of special hermosura.Su economy it is linked directly to the plant of cellulose Arauco, the one that has generated the establishment of new neighborhoods and an asset trade lender of services with spending of the years. In a same way, they have left developing the fishing and the tourism.
As arriving
From Concepción, you should travel 71 km. toward the south to arrive to this commune. It should cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío and to take the route 160 Colonel-Lota to go by the towns of Lota, Chivilingo, Laraquete and Carampange, in this point rotate toward the coast (west) and it arrives to the city of Arauco.

From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that he/she goes to Angol. Once in Angol he/she 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, 77 km travels. Until Curanilahue and from this commune 24 km. To arrive to the city of Arauco.

  • SERVICE RESTORATION

It cooks of "Renato"
CONTACT: Renato Coffer.
CAPACITY: 140 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT
Homemade - Fish - Shellfish – Meats.

TYPICAL PLATES
Collate…………………….………………….... $$6 dollars
Turnovers of Shellfish..………………………. $$6 dollars
Hot marshal..………………………………….. $$6 dollars
Carpacho Cold………………………………… $$4 dollars
Fried fish with Attaché..………………………. $$4 dollars

OTHER SERVICES
Living room of Events – Parkings.

ADDRESS
In route to Llico, Sector the Creek, KM 20 - Arauco - Phon: 09-546931


Restaurant "Cappolonio"

CONTACT: Eliana Astorga.
CAPACITY: 180 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT
Chilean - Fish - Shellfish

TYPICAL PLATES
Loin to the Iron.……………………………... $$6 dollars
Ceviche………….……………………….….. $$6 dollars
Pulp of Pig…….………….......…………….. $$3 dollars
Supreme Keff Ave……………………………$$3 dollars

OTHER SERVICES
Living room of Events - Access to Discapacitados Parking - Cabins

ADDRESS
Tip Carampangue S/N - Arauco - Phon / Fax: 41-551689 Email: jthus@Latinmail.com

  • Attractions of the Commune of Arauco


Historical museum Arauco.

Category:Cultural.

Description:

Founded February of 1993, 2 are born as 4 professors' initiative to rescue the cultural past of Arauco. This directed by a corporation that I am able to give him local own, where they carry out extension activities to school, campaigns on the cultural patrimony and investigation has more than enough local history. This museum is a particular institution that looks for to rescue the historical patrimony of the Commune.

LOCATION:

Esmeralda 550 Arauco.

Phon: 41-552643.

Schedules: 10:00 to 13:00 hrs. 15:00 to 18:00 hrs.

Creek of Arauco.


Category: Natural.

Description:

In the extensive coast of Arauco he/she is an avariedad of beaches (tubul, llico, rumena, tip lavapie), luagares of great beauty scenic doinde the visitor will be able to enjoy sport fishing, she fishes handmade.

LOCATION:

Coast of the Commune of Arauco.

Commune of Curanilahue

The city of Curanilahue ubicada35 km is. to the south of Arauco. Lima to the north with Concepción's county; to the south with The Poplars; to the east with Birth and Angol and to the west with Arauco and Lebu. It possesses an extension of 996,6 Km2 and a near population to the 32 thousand inhabitants.


This city arises as mining camp due to the existence of locations of coal and he/she consolidates by the middle of the years '20 when being established the first families of the town. It has also been rewarded by their Juvenile Orchestra, initiative that has allowed to interpret the classic music's more famous representatives' compositions, in diverse scenarios of the country.

It is characterized by an irregular relief that he/she forced to that many of the housings were built in the heights of the hills. In a same way, the square of Weapons has the particularity of possessing on 10 edges, obviating the you practice Spanish urbanísticas that assisted to the square layout, order that guaranteed an uniformity in its four faces. In the accesses to the city highlight emblematical sculptures: in the north entrance a beautiful and singular wooden sculpture exists that represents a giant hand that welcomes to those who visit the city, the one which this accompanied by 2 Chemamûll of 2 mts of high that homenajean to the town mapuche; in the south access he/she is a Catholic Sanctuary that has a cross of 10 mts of high and a kneeling woman to their feet, both also made wooden.

In the economic area it has suffered an evolution, after the peak of the coal, ending up experiencing a commercial dynamism next to a growth in the lumberman-forest item.

As arriving


From Concepción you 95 kms should travel. Toward the south, to cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío and to take the Route 160 Lebu-Concepción will go by Colonel, Lota, Chivilingo, Laraquete until arriving to Carampangue from this continuous town the Route of the Araucanian for the interior until the Commune of Curanilahue.


From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that he/she goes to Angol. Once in Angol he/she 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, recorre 53 km. toward the north until The Poplars and from this town 24 km travels.
To arrive to the Commune of Curanilahue.


  • Service Restoration


Complex Tourist "The Castle"

CONTACT: Patricia Carrasco.

CAPACITY: 800 people.

ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.

EAT

Fish - Shellfish - Meats.

TYPICAL PLATES

Barbecue for 4 people..……………………$16 dollars.

Silver with Attaché.………………….………$6 dollars.

Fish with Attaché…………………………….$$ 6 dollars.

OTHER SERVICES

Living room of Events - Discotheque - Hotel

ADDRESS

Sergeant Village N° 931 - Curanilahue - Phon: 41-690154

Email: pcarrasco5@hotmail.com


  • Attractions of the Commune of Curanilahue



Category: Natural.

Description:

High Trongol

This sector cordillerano, full of araucarias and located to the southeast of Curanilahue, it prepares of several "stones miradors" whose extraordinary panoramic allows to glimpse the snowy of the Mountain range of the Andes, the coast of the County of Arauco and the Reservation National Blunt Island. Camping site areas exist, with basic equipment (taverns, vents), paths autoguiados to carry out on foot or to horse for the different ones "stones mirador" that conform the place, which also possess archaeological vestiges(stones cups).

Commune of the Poplars

The Poplars, geographically located in the center of the county, it limits to the north with Curanilahue and Lebu; to the south with Cañete; to the east with the ninth region and to the west with the Ocean Pacífico.Esta commune has an extension that the 547 Km2 of surface surrounds, it also has a population of 18.632 inhabitants, of which 88% lives in the urban sector.

It highlights for the activities related with the forest area through the operation of several established sawmills, as well as in the agriculture by means of traditional cultivations, it fattens it of animals and the benefit of varied services.
As arriving

From Concepción you 119 kms should travel. toward the south, to cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío and to take the Route 160 Lebu-Concepción will go by Colonel, Lota, Chivilingo, Laraquete until arriving to Carampange, from this continuous town the Route of the Araucanian for the interior until Curanilahue, travels 24km. and it arrives to The Poplars.

From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that he/she goes to Angol. Once in Angol he/she 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, 53 km travels. toward the north and it arrives to The Poplars.

  • SERVICE RESTORATION


Complex Tourist "Quillaitun"

CONTACT: Francisco Ojeda.
CAPACITY: 250 people.
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year.
EAT
Eat Homemade - Arab.

TYPICAL PLATES
Pan Ave of Field.…………………$$2 dollars.
Ñoquis…………..……….… ……..$$2 dollars.
Stew……………….……....……… $$2 dollars.
Arab fillers……………….……….. $$4 dollars.


OTHER SERVICES
Living room of Events

ADDRESS
Ignacio Career Paints N° 1351 - The Poplars.
Fono/Fax: 41-532179Fono: 41-532278 -
Email: evelinojeda@hotmail.com

Hostel "Caramavida"


CONTACT: Sara Carrillo
CAPACITY: 50 people
ESTACIONALIDAD: Open the whole year

EAT
Creole

TYPICAL PLATES
Pig with Potatoes…………………….. $$4 dollars.
Lamb with Attaché..……….…………. $$4 dollars.
Meat to the Juice………………..……..$$5 dollars.

OTHER SERVICES
Living room of Events

ADDRESS
Caramavida - The Poplars - Fono/Fax: 41-533778

  • Attractions of the Commune of The Poplars

Category: Natural.

Description:

Sector of Sara of Lebu This sector, of great scenic beauty, has in its surroundings varied dunes to sea bank, what makes it ideal for he/she practices it of the raid. It is here where in June of every year the most famous Raid in the county, the is carried out "Raid 4x4 The Pangales"