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Coihaique Coihaique, Chile.

Coihaique

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Coihaique, city, southern archipelagic Chile. It is situated 50 miles (80 km) inland of Puerto Aisén and 25 miles (40 km) west of the Argentine border. Founded in 1912 by a small group of German colonists, it is situated among grassy steppes between the Coihaique and Simpson rivers, in a densely forested and extremely wet region of Patagonian Chile (rainfall reaches 58 in. [1,485 mm] annually). Although wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, and fruit have long...

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