Llecué is a mountain in the commune of
Los Lagos in
Los Ríos Region
The Los Ríos Region (Spanish: ''Región de Los Ríos'', , ''Region of the Rivers'') is one of Chile's 16 regions, the country's first-order administrative divisions. Its capital is Valdivia. It began to operate as a region on October 2, 20 ...
,
southern Chile. The mountain lies west of mount
Tralcán and immediately south of
San Pedro River. The eastern slope of the mountain is a sharp
fault scarp
A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other. The topographic expression of fault scarps results from the differential erosion of rocks of contrastin ...
as is part of its western slope.
The name of the mountain is
Mapuche
The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...
based on ''llecu'', meaning near, and ''hue'', meaning place.
The mountain lies next to the catastrophic
landslide of 1575 which dammed San Pedro River causing a flood when the dam burst.
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References
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Mountains of Los Ríos Region