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The Steam Engines of Carahue, Southern Chile
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Lago Budi, Boca Budi, and Puerto Saavedra
There is perhaps fifty to a hundred steam engines
 scattered throughout Carahue (that we found).

Southern Chile's history is sometimes found in some strange places. About 35 minutes outside of Temuco, on the main road to the coast and Lake Budi, the small town of Carahue would strike any passerby as just another Southern Chilean town. However, you can not pass through this town without running into an old steam engine, literally at every turn and on every corner of the town.

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The Mapuche Indians of Lago Budi ( Lake Budi )
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Lago Budi, Boca Budi, and Puerto Saavedra
...the water from the tsunami suddenly raised the level of the lake,
but the water never receded back into the ocean...
Lago Budi is one of those geological wonders of the World that defies proper description. As South America's only salt water lake, situated just a few Kilometers from the Pacific ocean, it is as if Lake Tahoe was directly on the California Coast. From the high ridges on the eastern side, you can look out over the lake to the ocean; you feel, as much as hear, the ocean surf crashing on the beach and echoing across Lago Budi.  Past the islands of lake budi is the pacific ocean
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The Kayak and Canoe Club in Nueva Imperial, on the River Cholchol
Lago Budi, Boca Budi, and Puerto Saavedra

What we did not expect to find was one of the major sources of talent for Chile's national Olympic Kayak and Racing Canoe teams.

Just about every time we set out on one of our reconnaissance trips for allsouthernchile.com, we encounter something new and surprising.  This time we found something very surprising, in the very unlikely town of Nueva Imperial. While taking photos of the Cholchol River, we were suddenly struck by a racing canoe zipping under the bridge, then another and another. Everywhere we looked there were canoes and kayaks. Canoe and Kayak club Nueve Imperial chile South America
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