NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aysen Region

Aysen (also spelled Aisén) is Chile's eleventh administrative region from north to south. It is the least populous of the thirteen regions. Its terrain and form are very similar to those of the Alaska Panhandle, the northern Norwegian coast, and New Zealand's Milford Sound region. 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. ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Senators Ted Stevens (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,067,653 miÂ² / 1,717,854 kmÂ² (1st) - Land 1,481,347 kmÂ² - Water... Panorama of Milford Sound showing Bowen Falls in full flow on the far right. ...

Etimology

The name Aysen, has an indigenous origin, and comes from the Huilliche word "Achen" that means "to crumble". Another theory explains that it was a term used by the Culture of Chonos, whose meaning is "going more to the interior", thus responding to the natural configuration of the Fiord of Aysen, that, seen from the coast of the Moraleda strait, is like a piece of sea that enters deeply into the territory with direction to the orient. The physical relation between Culture of Huilliches and Culture of Chonos is a signal of the name's origin. Huillice is an Araucanian language spoken in Chile. ... Chonos Archipelago (Spanish Archipelago de los Chonos) is a series of low mountainous elongated islands with deep bays are traces of a drowned coastal range. ...

During the last time (decade of the '90) appeared the rumor that the term would have been put in 1831 by captain Robert Fitz-Roy, who made an expedition to the coast onboard the Beagle with Charles Darwin, relating that Fitz-Roy would have drawn detailed maps of the zone and to mark the point where the ice finished, wrote the English words "Ice end". Despite this theory is not more than a rumor, because the name Aysen with and "Y Greek" (common used in XVIII century), figure in documents of the religious explorer Father Garcia, who make an expedition to this zone in 1766, reason why the name is more than 60 years previous to the arrival of the Beagle. 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Country of origin United Kingdom Classification and breed standards A Beagle is a medium-sized dog breed and a member of the hound group, similar in appearance to a Foxhound but smaller with shorter legs, and with longer, softer ears. ... Charles Darwin in 1854, five years before he published The Origin of Species. ... 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

In spite of the clear historical references, the rumor has taken forces this last time, appearing in tourist script writings, surely due to the great arrival of European tourists who visit these land of the Patagonia every year. Patagonia is that portion of South America which, to the east of the Andes, lies south of the NeuquÃ©n and RÃo Colorado rivers, and, to the west of the Andes, south of (42Â°S). ...

Municipalities

Capital city of the XI region Founded in 1929 by settlers, this is a young city to operate a young government. ... Puerto Aysen is a city of Chile located in the Aysen Region. ... Clan Cochrane Origin There are various theories on the origins of the name Cochrane. ...

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Categories: Chile geography stubs | Regions of Chile | Geography of Chile Chile is divided into thirteen regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular regiÃ³n), each of which is headed by an intendant (intendente), appointed by the president. ... Image File history File links Chile flag 300px height unified for the national flags serie, by user:Marc Mongenet, from CIA World Factbook, borders removed, high compression ratio, some color or ratio corrections from http://www. ... TarapacÃ¡ is Chiles northernmost administrative region, hence also known as I RegiÃ³n (1st Region) in the standard north-to-south numbering of Chilean regions. ... Antofagasta is Chiles second administrative region from north to south. ... Atacama is Chiles third administrative region from north to south. ... Coquimbo is Chiles fourth administrative region from north to south. ... ValparaÃso is Chiles fifth administrative region from north to south. ... OHiggins is Chiles sixth administrative region from north to south. ... Maule is Chiles seventh administrative region from north to south. ... BÃo-BÃo is Chiles eighth administrative region from north to south. ... AraucanÃa is Chiles ninth administrative region from north to south. ... Los Lagos (Spanish The lakes) is Chiles tenth administrative region from north to south. ... Magallanes y la AntÃ¡rtica Chilena is the southernmost, largest and second least populated region of Chile. ... The Santiago Metropolitan Region (in Spanish, RegiÃ³n Metropolitana de Santiago) is a landlocked administrative region in central Chile. ...

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