Southern Chile
Zona Sur is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950. Its northern border is formed by the Bío-Bío River, which separates it from the Central Chile Zone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Concepción and Monte Águila.
Concepción
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Concepción is Chile's second largest city with a population of almost 227,000 as of 2016. It is a city rich in culture, history and beauty on the coast of Southern Chile.
Monte Águila
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Monte Águila is a town of 6,600 people in the Bío Bío Region and in the Province of Bíobio, in Chile.
Los Ríos
Los Ríos, the Rivers Region of southern Chile has not only rivers but also lakes, mountains, volcanoes, virgin forests, ecological parks and ocean beaches.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Biobío and Los Lagos.
Biobío
The Biobío Region is one of Chile's sixteen regions. With a population of 1.5 million, thus being the third most populated region in Chile, it is divided into three provinces: Arauco, Biobío and Concepción.
Los Lagos
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Los Lagos is a region in Southern Chile where ski resorts, hot springs and recreational fishing draw visitors. Known as the lake district of Chile, the region hosts Monte Verde, one of the oldest archaeological sites of the Americas.
Araucanía
Araucanía is in Southern Chile. It is characterized by fertile valleys and many lakes that are popular travel destinations. The Andean slopes merge here from the dry central Andes into the humid southern Andes.
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.
Southern Chile
- Type: Region
- Description: natural region of continental Chile
- Also known as: “Chile Southern zone” and “Zona Sur”
- Category: locality
- Location: Chile, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-40.445° or 40° 26′ 42″ southLongitude of center
-72.9021° or 72° 54′ 8″ westOpenStreetMap ID
node 8281529705OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q1746706
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Southern Chile” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المنطقة الجنوبية في تشيلي”
- Chinese: “南智利”
- Chinese: “智利南部地區”
- Dutch: “Zona Sur”
- Esperanto: “Ĉilia Suda Zono”
- French: “Sud du Chili”
- German: “Chilenische Schweiz”
- German: “Kleiner Süden”
- Greek: “Νότια Χιλή”
- Hebrew: “דרום צ’ילה”
- Indonesian: “Zona sur”
- Indonesian: “Zona Sur”
- Italian: “Cile meridionale”
- Japanese: “チリ南部”
- Japanese: “南部地域 (チリ)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zona sur”
- Portuguese: “Zona Sul do Chile”
- Spanish: “Chile austral”
- Spanish: “Chile del sur”
- Spanish: “Chile meridional”
- Spanish: “Chile sud”
- Spanish: “Chile sur”
- Spanish: “Sud chileno”
- Spanish: “Sur chileno”
- Spanish: “Sur de Chile”
- Spanish: “Sur”
- Spanish: “Zona sud de Chile”
- Spanish: “Zona sur de Chile”
- Spanish: “Zona Sur de Chile”
- Venetian: “Ciłe meridionałe”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Southern Chile”. Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.