Las Araucarias, Carahue

Las Araucarias
Region	Araucanía
Province	Cautín
Municipalidad	Carahue
Comuna	Carahue
Government [1][2]
• Type	Municipality
• Alcalde	Héctor Alejandro Sáez Veliz (UDI)
Population  (2017[3])
• Total	66
Sex [3]
• Men	38
• Women	28
Time zone	UTC-4 (Chilean Standard)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (Chilean Daylight)
Area code	Country + town = 56 + 45

Las Araucarias is a hamlet (Spanish: caserío) in Araucanía Region, Chile.^[3] It is located at 640 m asl. in Cordillera de Nahuelbuta next to a small remnant of some of the southernmost Araucaria araucana trees in the Chilean Coast Range.^[4] By 1950 there were 1000 ha of Araucaria araucana forest around Las Araucarias, but by 2016 only 40 ha remained,^[5] of which 10,3 ha are protected in the Villa las Araucarias site.^[4]

Notes

1. "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
2. "Municipality of Carahue" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
3. "Ciudades, pueblos, aldeas y caceríos 2019" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute. 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
4. "Villa las Araucarias" (in Spanish). Ministry of National Assets. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
5. "Manuel Gedda: "Los bosques de araucaria son el único testimonio vivo de la era jurásica que queda en el planeta"". uc.cl (in Spanish). 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2023-05-08.

38°29′43.2″S 73°14′12.49″W