Península de Taitao: The SRTM map doesn't show the connection between the Laguna San Rafael and the Moraleda Channel.
The Taitao Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Taitao) is a westward-facing landmass on the south-central Pacific west coast of Chile. The peninsula is connected to the mainland via the narrow Isthmus of Ofqui, over which tribal peoples and early missionaries often traveled to avoid navigating the peninsula's treacherous waters, carrying their boats and belongings overland between the Moraleda Channel and Gulf of Penas.[1] The Taitao Peninsula is situated in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region, and part of the landmass is located inside the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park. The Presidente Ríos Lake, with a surface area of 352 square kilometres (136 sq mi), lies in the center of the peninsula. A southward-incurving projection of its outer shoreline is known as Tres Montes peninsula, the most southerly point of the cape of the same name.[1]
Spanish explorers and Jesuits that sailed south from Chiloé Archipelago in the 17th and 18th centuries regularly avoided rounding Taitao Peninsula entering instead the Gulf of Penas after a brief land crossing at the isthmus of Ofqui.[2] While attempting to pass the Gulf of Penas in 1741, a storm caught the British ship, HMS Wager, causing it to wreck on (the eventual) Wager Island, on the Guayaneco Archipelago.[3][2] Some of the survivors, including John Byron, were led into the Spanish settlements of the Chiloé Archipelago by the Chono chieftain Martín Olleta via Presidente Ríos Lake.[2]
Writer Benjamín Subercaseaux visited the Taitao Peninsula in 1946, reportedly having seen footprints and fresh human feces he thought indicated the indigenous Chono people, as known from the historical record, still lived in the region.[4]
As result of its difficult terrain and rugged isolation, the peninsula is largely unexplored.[5]
^ abChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chile" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 143–146. spelled "Taytao"
^ abcVásquez Caballero, Ricardo Felipe. "Aau, el secreto de los chono" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved January 24, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Sepúlveda Ortíz, Jorge. "Exploraciones efectuadas en la región de Trapananda antes del siglo XIX" (PDF). Boletín de la Academia de Historia Naval y Marítima de Chile (in Spanish): 95–110. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
^Urbina Burgos, Rodolfo (2007). "El pueblo chono: de vagabundo y pagano a cristiano y sedentario mestizado". Orbis incognitvs: avisos y legados del Nuevo Mundo(PDF) (in Spanish). Huelva: Universidad de Huelva. pp. 325–346. ISBN 9788496826243.
^Nelson, Eric; Forsythe, Randall; Diemer, John; Allen, Mike (1993). "Taitao ophiolite: a ridge collision ophiolite in the forearc of southern Chile (46°S)". Revista Geológica de Chile. 20 (2): 137–165. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
The TaitaoPeninsula (Spanish: Península de Taitao) is a westward-facing landmass on the south-central Pacific west coast of Chile. The peninsula is connected...
Plate to the east, and the ridge has been subducting underneath the TaitaoPeninsula since 14 million years ago (Ma). The ridge-collision has generated...
Tres Montes Peninsula (Spanish: Península Tres Montes, English: Three Hills Peninsula) is a southwestward projection of TaitaoPeninsula which in turn...
Yaghan (Yámana) to the south of Tierra del Fuego, the Kaweshqar between TaitaoPeninsula and Tierra del Fuego, and the Chono people in the Chonos Archipelago...
Ríos Lake in the interior of TaitaoPeninsula instead of rounding to the west of the treacherous Tres Montes Peninsula. Of this group, three survivors...
is likely the party travelled across Presidente Ríos Lake in inland TaitaoPeninsula, a lake Chile regarded as officially discovered in 1945. Eventually...
the Andean Mountains, extending from Morro de Arica in the north to TaitaoPeninsula, where it ends at the Chile Triple Junction, in the south. The range...
Patagonia so that the Chile Triple Junction lies at present in front of TaitaoPeninsula at 46°15' S. The subduction of the Antarctic Plate beneath South America...
Taitao ophiolite (Spanish: Ofiolita de Taitao) is an ophiolite in TaitaoPeninsula of western Patagonia, Chile. The ophiolite crops out about 10 km w to...
meaning "gulf of distress") is a body of water located south of the TaitaoPeninsula, Chile. It is open to the westerly storms of the Pacific Ocean, but...
Ofqui, Península de Taitao, Región de Aysén" [Exploratory references on Presidente Ríos lake, for routes round the Ofqui Isthmus, TaitaoPeninsula, Aysén...
to Chiloé Archipelago in the north while some Chono moved south of TaitaoPeninsula, effectively depopulating the territory. The Chono in Chiloé ended...
Junction where the Chile Rise subducts under South America at the TaitaoPeninsula giving origin to the Patagonian Volcanic Gap. Further south lies the...
the AVZ, where the Antarctic Plate subducts. West of Hudson and the TaitaoPeninsula, the Chile Ridge enters the Peru-Chile Trench, forming the Chile Triple...
called Chiloé, Guaitecas and Chonos archipelagoes, lie North of the TaitaoPeninsula. The largest island of this portion of Austral Chile is Chiloé, which...
junction located on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean off Taitao and Tres Montes Peninsula on the southern coast of Chile. Here three tectonic plates...
the Nazca Ridge and the Juan Fernández Ridge, respectively. Around TaitaoPeninsula flat-slab subduction is attributed to the subduction of the Chile Rise...
to TaitaoPeninsula, making up most of Chile's land surface. South of Taitao, only the Andes Mountains are present. North of the TaitaoPeninsula, the...
Chile's thickest forest are found between the Bío-Bío River and the TaitaoPeninsula. Among those trees are the alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides), the ciprés...
Chiloé Archipelago in the north while other Chonos moved south of TaitaoPeninsula effectively depopulating the territory. After this relations between...
series of archipelagos, such as Chiloé and the Chonos, disappearing in Taitaopeninsula, in the parallel 47°S. The Andes mountain range loses height and erosion...
coast range so that it now of islands and is not present south of TaitaoPeninsula. The Intermediate depression is under the sea level. Fjords penetrate...
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