Wilderness Areas

Description: Valdivia Rainforest located in Cordillera de la Costa in the towns of Corral and La Union. The main access is:

For the T-80 route, which runs from La Union - Hueicolla, the road is 31 km and 17 km gravel ground which are passable only with four-wheel drive vehicles or mountain biking.

Other access wheel drive vehicle along the route of the Union to Santa Elisa, until Cumleufu sector.

From Corral access it is only for four wheel drive vehicles or mountain bike by the Mirador sector, which can be accessed from the towns of La Aguada and Chaihuín Morro Gonzalo.

Created in October 2010, it is the first national park in the region and is the result of collaboration between the state and private. He joined Valdivia National Reserve, Natural Monument Coastal Larch, the land Fiscal Quitaluto and cloth pierced by The Nature Conservancy, which owns the adjoining Valdivian Coastal Reserve. Its aim is to conserve the rich and unique nature of the Cordillera de la Costa in the country, with special emphasis on the millennial larch and endemic species. It has an area of ??24,000 hectares along a gradient height from 650 m to 1048 m, allowing maintain viable for many species of birds and mammals with strict habitat requirements populations. This large contiguous block of coastal temperate forest protects the river basin Chaihuín, and good estdo conservation is key to maintaining the ecosystem services provided by this river to the local community.