41°32′42″S 72°19′42″W / 41.54500°S 72.32833°W
Reloncaví Estuary (Spanish: Estuario de Reloncaví, archaic: Sin Fondo) is a fjord off Reloncaví Sound, located in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. Several National Parks and Wilderness Areas are situated in the vicinity of this fjord. Among them are: Alerce Andino National Park, Hornopirén National Park, Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park, Llanquihue National Reserve and the Cochamó Valley. The Yate Volcano towers above this fjord. The Puelo River empties into this estuary. It also receives the outflow of the Todos los Santos Lake through the short tortuous Petrohué River.[1]
The Caicura Islets lie where Reloncaví Estuary meet Reloncaví Sound in the southwestern mouth of the fjord.[2]
Sources
edit- ^ Lamoureux, Andrew Jackson (1911). Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 144. . In
- ^ Cursach, Jaime A.; Vilugrón, Jonnathan; Rau, Jaime M.; Tobar, Claudio; Carlos, Carlos (2022). "Islas Caicura (41°S): sitio importante para la reproducción de aves y mamíferos marinos del seno de Reloncaví, sur de Chile". Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia (in Spanish). 50: 1–13. doi:10.22352/AIP202250003.
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