Tarahuín Lake () is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

in south-central

Chiloé Island Chiloé Island (, , ), also known as Greater Island of Chiloé (''Isla Grande de Chiloé''), is the largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago off the west coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean. The island is located in southern Chile, in the Los L ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. It has an area of 7.7 km². The lake's catchment basin is mostly made up of hilly terrain that is covered by native forest, and to a lesser extent natural

prairies Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the ...

.Villalobos, L., Parra, O., Grandjean, M., Jaque, E., Woelfl, S., Campos, H. (2003)
A study of the river basins and limnology of five humic lakes on Chiloé Island
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Revista Chilena de Historia Natural The ''Revista Chilena de Historia Natural'' is a bilingual open access scientific journal published by the Sociedad de Biología de Chile covering research in many areas of biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organis ...

'', 76 (4), 563–590.

Chile Route 5 Chile Highway 5 or Route 5 known locally as ''Ruta 5'' is Chile's longest route, . It is part of the Pan-American Highway. Stretch It runs from the Peruvian border connecting with Peru Highway 1 north of Arica to Puerto Montt where it conn ...

passes next to the lake's western end.

References

Lakes of Chiloé Archipelago Lakes of Chile {{LosLagos-geo-stub