German Settlement

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German Settlement of Chile

 

statue in Puerto Montt
commemorating 100 years of settlement

 

many of the settlers came from Eastern Germany

 

Vincente Perez Rosales
agent for the German settlement

statue in Puerto Varas

 

 

they lived as farmers

 

building substantial dwellings
 covered with the weather resistant redwood shingles, from the Alerce tree

 

and a mill

 

built Lutheran churches

 

 

and Catholic churches

 

 

chapels

 

 

some no longer used

 

 

with grave yards of German descendants often with Spanish names

 

beside pastures for sheep

 

or for llama

 

 

nalca, large plants along the roadside which resemble rhubarbrb

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