Vicente Pérez Rosales (; 5 April 1807 – 6 September 1886) was a politician, traveller, merchant, miner and
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
an
diplomat
A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...
that organised the
colonisation by Germans and Chileans of the
Llanquihue area.
Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park
Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park () is located in Los Lagos Region, Llanquihue Province, of Chile. Its western entrance is close to the Ensenada locality, northeast of the provincial capital of Puerto Montt, and from Puerto Varas along Ruta ...
is named after him.
See also
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Carlos Anwandter
Carlos Anwandter (1 April 1801, in Luckenwalde, Prussia – 10 July 1889, in Valdivia, Chile) was a German political exile who emigrated to Valdivia, Chile in 1850 after participating in the Revolutions of 1848.
Biography
He migrated to Valdi ...
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Chan Chan (forest)
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Bernhard Eunom Philippi
Bernhard Eunom Philippi (September 19, 1811, in Charlottenburg – September 6, 1852) was a German naturalist, explorer and colonization agent for Chile. He played an important role in the Chilean colonization of the Strait of Magellan and th ...
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German colonization of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue
Sources
Memoria chilena
1807 births
1886 deaths
People from Santiago
Chilean people of Spanish descent
National Party (Chile, 1857) politicians
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
Members of the Senate of Chile
Chilean diplomats
People of the California Gold Rush
Chilean memoirists
19th-century memoirists
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