Qualla: Cochamó Valley https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cochamó Valley https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley Cochamó Valley: Introduction https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley/ There is no road in. To reach the heart of the Cochamo Valley you walk - four or five hours along a muddy, root-laced trail through temperate rainforest, or you ride it on horseback behind a Chilean huaso who has made the trip a hundred times. And then the forest opens, and you understand the comparison everyone makes. Sheer walls of grey granite rise more than a thousand meters straight out of the green, polished smooth and streaked with waterfalls, catching the last light gold. People call this the "Yosemite of South America," and for once the label undersells it. Cochamo is wilder, wetter, and harder to reach than its California namesake - a valley that has kept its remoteness precisely because the road never came.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/s/s/cochamo-valley-wk/62ss-cocham-valley-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cochamó Valley: A Valley Carved by Ice https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley/ The shape tells the story. Cochamo is a textbook U-shaped glacial valley, its floor scooped flat and its walls planed vertical by an immense glacier that ground through here over the course of millions of years before melting back into the Andes. What the ice left behind is a tie...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/s/s/cochamo-valley-wk/62ss-cocham-valley-a-valley-carved-by-ice.mp3 0:06 2 full Cochamó Valley: The Ancient Forest https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley/ Among Cochamo's true treasures are its alerce trees - Fitzroya cupressoides, a relative of the giant sequoia and one of the longest-living organisms on Earth, capable of standing for over 3,600 years. To walk beneath them is to move among living things that were already ancient w...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/s/s/cochamo-valley-wk/62ss-cocham-valley-the-ancient-forest.mp3 0:06 3 full Cochamó Valley: Gauchos, Bandits, and a Maverick Sailor https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley/ The trail through Cochamo has carried traffic for more than a century. Long before tourists, it was the path of gauchos driving cattle, of missionaries, and of the occasional outlaw - local legend holds that the American bandits Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid passed this way ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/s/s/cochamo-valley-wk/62ss-cocham-valley-gauchos-bandits-and-a-maverick-sailor.mp3 0:06 4 full Cochamó Valley: A Climber's Promised Land https://qualla.com/cochamo-valley/ Today Cochamo's upper basin, called La Junta, is one of the great big-wall rock climbing destinations on the planet. The first routes went up on the Cerro Trinidad wall in the late 1990s, after the climber Crispin Waddy and his partner spent days hacking a trail through the jungl...

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