San Pedro Bay ( es, Bahía San Pedro) is a bay in southern Chile located in the southern coast of

Osorno Province Osorno Province ( es, Provincia de Osorno) is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos (X). The province has an area of and a population of 221,496 distributed across seven communes ( Spanish: ''comunas''). The provi ...

. In 1965 the ships ''Janequeo'' and ''Leucoton'' sank in the bay. The bay has the form of a half-circle open to the west and has several small coves. On

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, 1544 twelve men of the expedition of

Juan Bautista Pastene 200px, Map showing the September 1544 expedition led by Pastene. Giovanni Battista Pastene (1507–1580) was a Genoese maritime explorer who, while in the service of the Spanish crown, explored the coasts of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru ...

made landfall in San Pedro Bay,

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, with

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claiming the territory for the

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and the King of Spain. The landfall was likely in what is today known as Caleta Guayusca. The Spanish captured two male and two female indigenous inhabitants as proof of their discovery. Thereafter, on the same day, the expedition sat sail to the north. The site Futawillimapu.org refers to this event as the beginning of the

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Bays of Chile Bodies of water of Los Lagos Region Coasts of Los Lagos Region {{LosLagos-geo-stub

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