Huar Island or Guar Island ( es, Isla Guar, Isla Guar) is an island of
Calbuco Archipelago
Calbuco Archipelago is located in the Reloncaví Sound, Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, Chile.
The archipelago is composed of 14 islands.
List of islands
The islands are:
# Puluqui
# Caicué / Lagartija
# Queulín
# Chaullín / Helv ...
located in the
Reloncaví Sound
Reloncaví Sound or ''Seno de Reloncaví'' is a body of water immediately south of Puerto Montt, a port city in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. It is the place where the Chilean Central Valley meets the Pacific Ocean.
The Calbuco Archipelago comp ...
. The island is located about northeast of
Calbuco
Calbuco is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Calbuco. Administratively Calbuco belongs to the Llanquihue Province of Los Lagos Region. The origin of the city was the Spanish Fort Calbuco founded in 1603, an ...
and south of
Puerto Montt. There are 5 settlements in the island and 5 schools: Quetrolauquén, Alfaro, Nalcahue, Chucagua y Colhue. The island was one of the last places of the
Chono people
The Chono people, or GuaitecoUrbina Burgos 2007, p. 334. were a nomadic indigenous people or group of peoples of the archipelagos of Chiloé, Guaitecas and Chonos.
The Chono people lived as hunter-gatherers traveling by canoe.
Much of what is ...
.
There is no electricity network on the island, but the 5 schools are connected with
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
.
[Article in Chilean newspaper ]El Mercurio
''El Mercurio'' (known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and it is considered the oldest daily in ...
br>Niños de Isla Huar ya no se sienten aislados
on 21 May 2006, retrieved on 13 February 2013
References
Calbuco Archipelago
Islands of Los Lagos Region
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