Thursday, February 03, 2005

Coihaique

City, capital of Ais�n Region in southern archipelagic Chile, 50 mi (80 km) inland of Puerto Ais�n and 25 mi (40 km) west of the Argentine border. Founded in 1912 by a small group of German colonists, it is situated among grassy steppes between the Coihaique and Simpson rivers, in a densely forested and extremely wet coastal region of Patagonian Chile (rainfall reaches 58 in. [1,485 mm] annually). Although

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