Maullín River
Location
CountryChile
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationLlanquihue Lake
 • elevation70 m (230 ft)
Mouth 
 • location
Pacific Ocean
Length85 km (53 mi)[1]
Basin size3,972 km2 (1,534 sq mi)[1]
Discharge 
 • average100 m3/s (3,500 cu ft/s)[2]

Maullín River (Spanish: Río Maullín) is a river of Chile located in the Los Lagos Region. The river originates as the outflow of Llanquihue Lake, and flows generally southwestward, over a number of small waterfalls, emptying into the Gulf of Coronados.[3] The lower course of the river is a tidal estuary. The wetlands of Maullín stand out for their diversity of aquatic birds when compared to other locations of the Chilean coast.[4] In the estuary Laguna Quenuir is the place known to have the largest diversity of bird fauna.[4]

History

Franciscan Friar Francisco Alvarez Villanueva mention in 1780 Maullín River as the limit between the Spanish possessions and the "Cunco nation" to the north.[5]

The river was first explored extensively in 1856 and 1857 by the Chilean Navy officers Francisco Hudson and Francisco Vidal Gormaz.[6] The area around Llanquihue Lake was settled in the second half of the 19th century by German immigrants, who received land from the government in a scheme to encourage settlement in this area.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cuenca del río Maullín" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Hidrografía Región de los Lagos". Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  3. ↑ Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. NM23-720-597 "Maullin River, Puerto Montt," Chile, Winter/Spring 1997 Archived 2003-04-08 at the Wayback Machine, (16 July 2007)
  4. 1 2 Delgado, Claudio; Espinosa, Luis; Pfeifer, Ana; Cárdnas-Véjar, José; Cursach, Jaime A. (2022). "Humedales costeros del río Maullín: uno de los lugares con mayor diversidad de aves acuáticas en Chile" [Coastal wetlands of the Maullín River: one of the places with the greatest diversity of aquatic birds in Chile]. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia (in Spanish). doi:10.22352/aip202250001.
  5. ↑ Alcamán, Eugenio (1997). "Los mapuche-huilliche del Futahuillimapu septentrional: Expansión colonial, guerras internas y alianzas políticas (1750-1792)" (PDF). Revista de Historia Indígena (in Spanish) (2): 29–76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-28.
  6. ↑ Sepúlveda Ortíz, Jorge (1998), "Francisco Hudson, un destacado marino poco conocido en nuestra historia" (PDF), Revista de Marina (in Spanish): 1–20
  7. ↑ "Colonización alemana en Valdivia y Llanquihue (1850-1910)", Memoria Chilena (in Spanish), retrieved November 30, 2013


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