Colún River is a river in
La Unión, Chile
La Unión is a city and commune of the Ranco Province in the Los Ríos Region in Chile. It is situated approximately 40 km north of Osorno and 80 km southeast of Valdivia. Covering an area of 2,136.7 km2, it has a population of 36,4 ...
It is fed by the Yugo Largo, Mañío and El Puente streams at the Colún Hill. The end of the river opens into the
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
at Punta Colún, the
Colún Beach
Colún is a beach in southern Chile located south of Corral and west of La Unión. The beach is about 9 km long and runs like many other Chilean beaches from north to south along the Pacific Oceans shores. In a ranking made the newspaper El ...
inside the
Valdivian Coastal Reserve
Valdivian Coastal Reserve is a natural reserve located in the Cordillera Pelada, in Los Ríos Region of Chile, near Corral.
History
In 2003, the WWF Chile program, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other local organizations acquired a nearly 60, ...
.
See also
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List of rivers of Chile
This list of rivers of Chile includes all the major rivers of Chile. See each article for their tributaries, drainage areas, etc. Usually significant tributaries appear in this list, under the river into which they drain.
Rivers by name
Following ...
References
Rivers of Chile
Rivers of Los Ríos Region
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