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The name Aisen is African name for a boy or a girl meaning « I am in the light » . The name is not common due to its pronunciation. Also, Aisén or Aysén is the name of several places in
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 ...
. –––––––– The Aysén or Aisén Region is the least populous of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
Aysén Province Aysén Province ( es, Provincia de Aysén) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Aysen (XI). Its capital is Puerto Aysén. Demographics The province had a 2002 population of 23,498 according to the census by the National Statistics I ...
is one of four provinces in the region.
Aysén, Chile Aysén or Aisén (pronounced: ) is a Chilean commune located in Aysén Province, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region. It is home to the city of Puerto Aysén and to the towns of Villa Mañiguales and Puerto Chacabuco. A note on ...
is also the name of a
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the province, which in turn is home to the city of
Puerto Aisén Puerto, a Spanish word meaning ''seaport'', may refer to: Places * El Puerto de Santa María, Andalusia, Spain *Puerto, a seaport town in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines * Puerto Colombia, Colombia * Puerto Cumarebo, Venezuela * Puerto Galera, O ...
, the capital of both the commune and the province. The etymology of the province’s name is uncertain, but may come from the Huillice language or possibly the
Chono language Chono is a poorly attested extinct language of confusing classification. It is attested primarily from an 18th-century catechism, which is not translated into Spanish. There are various placenames in Chiloé Archipelago with Chono etymologies d ...
. While official documents spell the name ''Aisén'', people in the region often prefer to spell it as ''Aysén''. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The name Aisen is also of Sakha origin (a native Siberian tribe from the Russian Far East), meaning "the grandson of the Creator."


Etymology

The name Aisén may come from the
Huilliche The Huilliche , Huiliche or Huilliche-Mapuche are the southern partiality of the Mapuche macroethnic group of Chile. Located in the Zona Sur, they inhabit both Futahuillimapu ("great land of the south") and, as the Cunco subgroup, the north hal ...
word "Achen," meaning "to crumble". Another theory suggests that it was a term used by the Chonos culture meaning "going more to the interior," in reference to the Fjord of Aisén that stretches east from the Moraleda strait. During the 1990s, it was suggested that the name might be derived from an 1831 map made by captain Robert Fitz-Roy, who made an expedition to the coast on board the ''
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'' with
Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...
and labeled the area around modern Aisén province with the words "Ice End." This theory, however, was largely dismissed because the name "Aysen" appears in documents of the explorer Father Garcia, who made an expedition to this region in 1766, more than 60 years prior to the arrival of the Beagle. Despite this, the Fitz-Roy myth has become popular among the many European tourists who visit Patagonia each year.


Spelling

All current official documents use ''Aisén'', as this is the name given by the Military Geographic Institute, the authority sanctioning official Chilean place names. This is legally established in Decree 1,439 The spelling ''Aysén'' is preferred by people living in the region and is used by the Municipality of Aisén website. Another argument in favor of ''Aisén'' is in the nature of the Spanish orthography, which does not use the letter ''y'' as a vowel. For example, the word ''aymará'' was changed by the
Royal Spanish Academy The Royal Spanish Academy ( es, Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is affiliated with ...
to ''aimará''.Cómo se escribe: ¿Aisén o Aysén?
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EMOL ''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 t ...
'', accessed May 1, 2007


References

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