Online Encyclopedia

Area, 8649 sq. m. Pop. (1895) 60,687; (1902, esti- mated) 76,000. The province is roughly mountainous in the E., is heavily forested and is traversed by numerous See also:

rivers. There is a See also:

CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain of lakes across its eastern See also:

side near the See also:

ANDES

Andes, the largest of which are Villarica, Rinihue and Ranco. The rivers are the Tolten on the See also:

NORTHERN

northern boundary, the Valdivia, or Calle-Calle, with its large tributaries in the central See also:

PART

part of the province, and the Bueno on the southern frontier. The Valdivia (about Too m. See also:

long) has its See also:

SOURCES

sources in the Andes and flows W. to the Pacific. Its largest tributary on the N. is the Rio Cruces. The Valdivia is the outlet for See also:

Lake Rinihue and is navigable for a long distance. Valdivia is one of the most recently settled provinces and has a large immigrant See also:

ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element, chiefly See also:

German. Its most important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is that of clearing away the heavy forests and marketing the See also:

TIMBER

timber.

Stock-raising is an important industry, and See also:

wheat is grown on the cleared lands. See also:

LUMBER

Lumber, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

leather, See also:

FLOUR

flour and See also:

BEER

beer are ex-ported. The See also:

capital is Valdivia, a flourishing See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city on the Valdivia See also:

RIVER

river, 12 M. above its See also:

PORT

port, See also:

CORRAL (Span. from corro, a circle)

Corral, near the mouth of the river. Pop. (1895) 8062; (1902, estimated) 9704. It is a roughly built See also:

PIONEER

pioneer See also:

TOWN

town, in which See also:

wood is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

BUILDING

building material. The mean See also:

ANNUAL

annual temperature is 59.9° and its annual rainfall is 115 in. A See also:

government railway runs to Osorno on the S., and in 1909 was being connected with the central See also:

LINE

line See also:

RUNNING

running S. through Bio-Bio and Cautin. The port of Corral, at the mouth of the Valdivia river, in See also:

lat. 390 49' S., long. 730 19' W., is situated on the S. side of a broad, See also:

LAGOON (Fr. lagune, Lat. lacuna, a pool)

lagoon-like See also:

SHEET

sheet of See also:

WATER

water, forming one of the best natural harbours on the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast. It is a port of See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call for several lines of steamers, including those of the Pacific See also:

MAIL

Mail running between See also:

Liverpool and See also:

VALPARAISO

Valparaiso.

End of Article: VALDIVIA

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.

Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
VALDES, JUAN DE (c. 1500-1541)

[next]
VALDOSTA