Key facts
- Location
- Llanquihue Province and Osorno Province
- Primary outflows
- Maullín River
- Catchment area
- 4,738 km (1,829 sq mi)
- Basin countries
- Chile
- Max length
- 40 km (25 mi)
- Max width
- 32 km (20 mi)
- Surface area
- 871 km (336 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 182 m (597 ft)
- Max depth
- 317 m (1,040 ft)
- Water volume
- 158.6 km (38.1 cu mi)
- Shore length
- 197 km (122 mi)
- Surface elevation
- 51 m (167 ft)
- Frozen
- never
- Settlements
- Puerto Varas , Llanquihue , Frutillar , Puerto Octay , Las Cascadas
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Llanquihue Lake is the second-largest lake in Chile with an area of about 871 km (336 sq mi), after Lake General Carrera which is shared with Argentina. It is situated in the southern Los Lagos Region in the Llanquihue and Osorno provinces. The lake's fan-like form was created by successive piedmont glaciers during the Quaternary glaciations. The last glacial period is called Llanquihue glaciation in Chile after the terminal moraine systems around the lake.
Some historians consider Llanquihue Lake to have been within the range of ancient Chono nomadism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Llanquihue Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.