Chiloé Island
Chiloé Island is in Southern Chile, off-shore from the northern Patagonian regions of Los Lagos and Aysén. The best time to visit is during the summer.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Castro and Ancud.
Castro
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Castro is the capital of Chiloé Island. It is a city of 42,000 people on the island's eastern coast, halfway between Ancud in the north and Quellon in the south, and is a convenient base for exploring the island of Chiloe.
Ancud
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Ancud is the first town most people hit when visiting Chiloé Island from Puerto Montt. It's a relatively nice town of 41,000 people with a port and the usual small town attractions.
Quellon
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Quellón is a town of 24,000 people at the southern end of Chiloé Island. It is a fishing and transportation hub for the area and not a particularly interesting tourist destination, although you might want to experience the thrill of standing at the southern extreme of Chile's longest road, the Ruta 5, which is marked with a plaque and monument just outside of town at Punta de Lapas.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Chiloé National Park and Achao.
Chiloé National Park
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Chiloé National Park is a national park off the western coast of southern Chile in Chiloé Island. In 2019, the year before the COVID Pandemic began, the park received a total of 48,162 visitors.
Achao
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Achao is the main town on the island of Quinchao, off the main Chiloé Island. It is a small quaint town on the sea.
Parque Tantauco
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Parque Tantauco is a 1,180-km² privately owned park on Chiloé Island, Chile. Tantauco Park is an attractive ecotourist destination due to the remarkable biodiversity of its nearly untouched Valdivian temperate rainforest and the rather easy public access.
Chiloé Island
- Type: Island with 150,000 residents
- Description: island of Chile
- Also known as: “Chiloë”, “Chiloe Island”, “Chiloë Island”, and “Isla Chiloe”
- Location: Los Lagos, Southern Chile, Chile, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Chiloé Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chiloé-eiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة شيلوي”
- Azerbaijani: “Çiloe”
- Basque: “Chiloeko uharte handia”
- Bavarian: “Chiloé”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Чылаэ”
- Belarusian: “Чылаэ”
- Breton: “Enez Chiloé”
- Catalan: “illa Gran de Chiloé”
- Catalan: “Illa Gran de Chiloé”
- Cebuano: “Isla Chiloé”
- Chinese: “奇洛埃岛”
- Chinese: “奇洛埃島”
- Czech: “Chiloé”
- Dutch: “Chiloe-eiland”
- Dutch: “Chiloé-eiland”
- Dutch: “Chiloe”
- Dutch: “Chiloé”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره شيلوى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Insulo de Ĉiloeo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Ĉiloe”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Ĉiloeo”
- Finnish: “Chiloe”
- Finnish: “Chiloé”
- French: “Chiloé”
- French: “Grande Chiloé”
- French: “Ile de Chiloe”
- French: “île de Chiloe”
- French: “île de Chiloé”
- French: “Île de Chiloé”
- Galician: “Chiloé”
- Galician: “Illa Grande de Chiloé”
- Georgian: “ჩილოე”
- German: “Chiloe”
- German: “Chiloé”
- Greek: “Νήσος Τσιλοέ”
- Hebrew: “צ’ילואה”
- Icelandic: “Chiloé-eyja”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Chiloé”
- Interlingua: “Chiloé”
- Interlingua: “Insula Chiloe”
- Italian: “Arcipelago di Chiloé”
- Italian: “Chiloé”
- Italian: “Isla Grande de Chiloé”
- Italian: “Isola di Chiloé”
- Japanese: “チロエ島”
- Korean: “칠로에섬”
- Latvian: “Čiloje”
- Lithuanian: “Čiloė”
- Lithuanian: “Čilojė”
- Mingrelian: “ჩილოე”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiloe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiloé”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chiloé-øya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chiloéøya”
- Norwegian: “Chiloé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chiloé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Chiloé”
- Persian: “جزیره شیلوئه”
- Polish: “Chiloé”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Chiloé”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Grande de Chiloé”
- Romanian: “Insula Chiloe”
- Romanian: “Insula Chiloé”
- Russian: “остров Чилоэ”
- Russian: “Чилоэ”
- Serbian: “Чилое”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chiloé”
- Slovenian: “Chiloe”
- Slovenian: “Chiloé”
- Spanish: “Chiloé”
- Spanish: “Futa Wapi Chillwe”
- Spanish: “Füta Wapi Chillwe”
- Spanish: “Isla de Chiloe”
- Spanish: “Isla de Chiloé”
- Spanish: “Isla Grande de Chiloe”
- Spanish: “Isla Grande de Chiloé”
- Swedish: “Chiloe”
- Swedish: “Chiloé”
- Turkish: “Chiloé Adası”
- Turkish: “Chiloé eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Chiloe”
- Turkish: “Chiloé”
- Turkish: “Şiloe Adası”
- Turkish: “Şiloe”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Чилое”
- Ukrainian: “Чилое”
- Ukrainian: “Чілое”
- Vietnamese: “Chiloé (đảo)”
- Vietnamese: “Chiloé”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô Chiloé”
- Welsh: “Chiloé”
- Welsh: “Ynys Chiloé”
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