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Aisén Region |
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| Intendant | Viviana Betancourt Gallegos |
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Ranked 3rd 108,494.4 km² |
| Population - 2002 Census |
Ranked 15th 91,492 |
| ISO 3166-2 | CL-AI |
The XI Aisén Region of General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (Spanish: XI Región Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo), also spelled Aysén, is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is the least populous of the fifteen regions. The shape of the landscape is marked by several glaciations that formed a lot of lakes, channels and fjords. The region still has icefields including the Northern Patagonian Ice Field and the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the world's largest after those in Antarctica and Greenland. Laguna San Rafael National Park, reachable only by boat or plane, is one of its most popular tourist destinations. Until the construction of Route 7 (the Carretera Austral, or Southern Highway) in the 1980s, the only overland routes from north to south through the region were extremely primitive tracks.
Municipalities
Aisén Region has ten municipalities (
See also
External links
- http://www.goreaysen.cl/ - Official website of the Region
- http://www.coyhaique.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Coyhaique
- http://www.pronap.uchile.cl/lagoverde/ - Official website of the Commune of Lago Verde
- http://www.puertoaysen.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Aysén
- http://www.cisnes.org/ - Official website of the Commune of Cisnes
- http://www.cochranepatagonia.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Cochrane
- A non-official website containing information on the Commune of O'Higgins
- http://www.municipalidaddetortel.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Tortel
- http://www.chilechico.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Chile Chico
- http://www.pronap.uchile.cl/rioibanez/ - Official website of the Commune of Río Ibáñez
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