Queule

For the tree known as "Queule", see Gomortega.
Queule
List of towns in Chile

Quele as seen on November 2013.
Queule

Location in Chile

Coordinates: 39°23′S 73°14′W / 39.383°S 73.233°W / -39.383; -73.233
Country Chile
Admin. division Araucanía Region
Province Cautín Province
Commune Toltén
Population (2002 )
 • Total 1,422

Queule is a Chilean town in the commune of Toltén in Cautín Province, Araucanía Region. It is located just north of Mehuín and close to the border of Araucanía Region with Los Ríos Region.

Days after the 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami a police officer stationed in Queule reported hundreds of people from Quele to be dead or missing. Historians Yoselin Jaramillo and Ismael Basso report that people in Queule decades later know about 50 people to have died because of the earthquake and tsunami.[1]

Coordinates: 39°23′S 73°14′W / 39.383°S 73.233°W / -39.383; -73.233

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References

  1. ↑ Jaramillo, Yoselin; Basso, Ismael (2013). Queule, Entre Mar y Tierra 1950-2012 (in Spanish). Valdivia: Arte Sonoro Austral Ediciones. p. 64. ISBN 978-956-8716-04-2.
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