Qualla: Puerto Montt https://qualla.com/puerto-montt 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: Puerto Montt https://qualla.com/puerto-montt Puerto Montt: Introduction https://qualla.com/puerto-montt/ The roads run out here. For most of Chile, the Pan-American Highway is a spine that runs the length of the country, but at Puerto Montt the mainland frays into a thousand islands, and the highway gives up and lets the ferries take over. This is where the continent ends and Patagonia begins - a gritty, hardworking port city wrapped around a harbor, with the perfect white cone of the Osorno volcano floating on the horizon behind it. Travelers headed for the fjords, for Chiloé, for the long blue thread of channels leading south all pass through here. Puerto Montt is not a place most people set out to see. It is the place they go through to reach everywhere else.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/2/s/h/puerto-montt-wp/62sh-puerto-montt-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Puerto Montt: Melipulli, the Four Hills https://qualla.com/puerto-montt/ The native Mapuche-Huilliche people called this place Melipulli - "four hills" - long before anyone wrote it on a map. On the 12th of February, 1853, the explorer and politician Vicente Perez Rosales founded a city on those hills and named it for Manuel Montt, the Chilean preside...

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