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Just a few kilometers off the Chilean coast of South America is a rather large Island called Chiloe. The Island of Chiloe could easily be mistaken for Ireland with rainbows, myths of strange creatures, sea fairing tradition, potatoes, and an almost revolutionary view of the Island as an independent political entity. We want to introduce you to the communities of Quellon and an Ancud, along with some of the local flavors in terms of both food and politics.

Global Warming is one of those things we tend to think about as slowly happening over time in the background; well, at least until a lake just disappears. That is what happened in the Chilean Patagonia recently. A lake fed by a Glacier, suddenly just dried up over about a month. We have reported on the big picture of Global Warming in South America and Southern Chile before, but this is one of those events everyone is perhaps a little to quick to blame on Global warming. Well the lake is now returning. So was this a case of Global Warming in Southern Chile?

The first problem we encountered was their unwillingness to tell us

what properties they had for sale or rent.

The international Gold mining company Geocom Resources, along with Kinross Gold Corp., both United States based companies are quietly buying up the mineral rights to the Espolon Valley in the heart of the Chilean Patagonia totaling over 91,000 hectares (353 square miles), with over 318 claims in the region X. We are closely watching these developments as Gold mining operations have the potential for incredible environmental devastation, even under the closest regulation. We need your help to insure the environmental assault on South America's Patagonia is brought to the full light of day. We even have a simple email in both Spanish and English prepared for you to help us let everyone know.

...the water from the tsunami suddenly raised the level of the lake,
but the water never receded back into the ocean...

A big problem in the city of Valdivia southern Chile, becomes a big tourist attraction. Sea lions weighing up to 2,000+ pounds recently discovered that the fish market along the river was a great place for a free lunch. That is not really the problem however. The problem is when they decide to take walking tours of downtown Valdivia. The city of Valdivia had a good solution to this big problem.

The Los Rios region (The rivers region) was recently split from Los Lagos region (region X), and will be numbered officially as region XIV. The new region will have Valdivia as the capital. The Los Rios region was not the only new region created. In Northern Chile, the Arica-Parinacota Region was also created and will be numbered as region XV.