Aisén Region

XI Región Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

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Capital	Coyhaique
Provinces	Coyhaique Aisén (province) General Carrera Capitán Prat
Intendant	Viviana Betancourt Gallegos
Area   - Total	Ranked 3rd 108,494.4 km²
Population   - 2002 Census   - Density	Ranked 13th 91,492 0.8/km²
ISO 3166-2	CL-AI

The XI Aisén Region of General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (XI Región Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo), also spelled Aysén, is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is the least populous of the fifteen regions. The shape of the landscape is marked by several glaciations that formed a lot of lakes, channels and fjords. The region still has icefields including the Northern Patagonian Ice Field and the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the world's largest after those in Antarctica and Greenland. Laguna San Rafael National Park, reachable only by boat or plane, is one of its most popular tourist destinations. Until the construction of Route 7 (the Carretera Austral, or Southern Highway) in the 1980s, the only overland routes from north to south through the region were extremely primitive tracks.

Municipalities

Aisén Region has ten municipalities (communes)

• Coihaique
• Lago Verde
• Aisén
• Cisnes
• Guaitecas
• Cochrane
• O'Higgins
• Tortel
• Chile Chico
• Río Ibáñez

See also

• Aisén

External links

• http://www.goreaysen.cl/ - Official website of the Region
• http://www.coyhaique.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Coyhaique
• http://www.pronap.uchile.cl/lagoverde/ - Official website of the Commune of Lago Verde
• http://www.puertoaysen.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Aysén
• http://www.cisnes.org/ - Official website of the Commune of Cisnes
• http://www.cochranepatagonia.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Cochrane
• A non-official website containing information on the Commune of O'Higgins
• http://www.municipalidaddetortel.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Tortel
• http://www.chilechico.cl/ - Official website of the Commune of Chile Chico
• http://www.pronap.uchile.cl/rioibanez/ - Official website of the Commune of Río Ibáñez