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The Park is located on an area where the active volcanoes, the tectonic and
glacial processes have been the factors that formed the Andes.
The biggest heights correspond to volcanic summits of different antiquity,
standing out the Puntiagudo Volcano (2.490 msnm.) and the Osorno Volcano (2.661
msnm.) the most recent. Picada Volcano (1.710 msnm.) and the Tronador Volcano
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The setback of the glaciers and the appearance of the Osorno Volcano allowed the
formation of the Todos los Santos Lake that is surrounded of high mountains of
delicate slopes and with drainage in the Petrohué River toward the estuary of
Reloncaví.
The volcanic activity is also manifested in an indirect way through a series of
thermal waters, like Viruloche, Ralún, The Callao among others
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cultural attractiveness
Archeological Aspects:
The area of the Park did not have a permanent indigenous occupation;
however it is an area of influence huilliche, town that inhabited in the
occident. By other hand, actually we know about the existence in the
past of a commercial traffic with the poyas and the puelches, indigenous
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Historical Aspects:
One of the most important focus of the Park constitutes the searching of the
Vuriloche Way during the XVIII century by the Jesuits of Chiloé, in order to
found missions in the region of Nahuelhuapi. This path located on the south of
the Tronador Volcano, avoided the risks of the route of the lagoons that
required to cross the Cayutúe Lagoon and the Todos los Santos Lake.
The Nahuelhuapi Way was used, according to the Chronicles, to communicate Chiloé
with the cities of the north, after the great rebellion of the Indians in 1.600.
The search of the City of the Caesars and the evangelism of the Indian poyas and
puelches impelled explorers and missionaries to chancy trips who used the route
of the lagoons going into the Ralún
Mountain, in the Estuary of Reloncaví. From this time the Captain's names were
born like Juan Fernández (1620) and of the priests Nicolás Mascardi, founder in
1670 of the mission of Nahuelhuapi, and Felipe de la Laguna. Finally , the
priest Gullél did not find the Vuriloche Way. In 1900 it was rediscovered by
the Chilean Captain Arturo Barrios.
Finally the colonization of the Park area began at the end of the XIX century,
when it was open the Vicente Pérez Rosales Path, beginning a permanent traffic
with Nahuelhuapi.
Finalmente la colonización de la zona del Parque se inició a fines del siglo XIX,
cuando fue reabierto el Paso Vicente Pérez Rosales, iniciándose un tráfico
permanente con Nahuelhuapi.
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Roads of Access
You can go to the Park by the International Route 225 from Puerto Varas
until Ensenada and Petrohué, with a distance of 64 km. The road has 58
km. asphalted and 6 km. of rubble in good state, requiring an hour of
trip. |
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