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ISLAND OF THE DEAD MEN
The sector where there is located the Island of the Dead men, of 39 hectares of surface and distant to 3 kilometres of the people of Cove Tortel is an area characterized by a particular geomorphology, shaped by the mouth of the Rio Baker (the most deep of Chile) and an estuary of fjords and channels, between Field of North and South Ice.
In the zone big mountains exist, with glaciers, rivers and lakes, causing the biggest reservations of sweet water of the world. It generates besides diverse ecosystems where forest species interact and arbustivas with a varied fauna. The existing vegetation corresponds to more terrestrial three, coigüe mixed (Monte Arbóreo Perennifolio), ñire (Bioma Arbóreo Caducifolio) and mallín (Bioma Herbáceo Estepario), very slightly common conjunction that Diplodon and Chilina constitutes a very particular habitat enriched by banks of two species of molluscs of sweet water in danger of extinction, which grants him to the place a high scientific interest.
In 1898 the geographer Hans Steffen realizes the first explorations of the area. Later between the year 1904 and 1908 the Exploitative Society of the Baker establishes infrastructure in the named sector Low Pisagua, place very near to the Island of the Dead men and to Cove Tortel, which is born with vocation of port. In the above mentioned historical frame, the pioneering colonists were establishing in the whole territory of the basins of the rivers Baker, Brave and Easter, of the Lake Vargas and of the snowstorms Montt and Steffen and along some islands in the fjords.
In the winter of the year 1906 they die in the zone and are buried in the Island, approximately 120 workpeople of the Exploitative Company of the Baker, situation that has determined his current name. the Island of the Dead men is constituted in his cemetery with individual graves with human remains buried in coffins worked in cypress, with his respective crosses done in the same wood, to 2 meters of depth.
According to the investigations historiográficas of the events, several theories exist relating to the deaths: they would have taken place for an epidemic of scurvy, for an accidental poisoning for ingestion with flour contaminated with antisárnico or seafood with red, or intentional tide, not to pay the salaries of the workpeople, theories all the contradictory ones between yes, by what a definitive or official version could not have be established, which grants him to this historical fact a fascinating and mystical character. The cemetery, of approximately 248 m2, it is the most ancient place with western constructions in the Region of Aysén, presenting in the actuality 33 crossings as the only testimony of the happened facts.
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