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6 unusual facts about Osorno


García Fernández Manrique, 3rd Count of Osorno

García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete

Jorge Mandrú

Jorge Mandrú (born May 5, 1986 in Osorno) is an alpine skier from Chile.

Martín Vargas

Martín Vargas Fuentes (born January 24, 1955 in Osorno) is a former boxer from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Osorno

Osorno la Mayor, a municipio in Palencia Province, Castile and León, Spain


Alfredo Duhalde

Duhalde also was director and president of the Banco Osorno- La Unión (1960–1966), Presidente of the Athletic Federation of Chile, partner of the Duhalde, Dibarrant and Co. and honorary director of Colo-Colo F.C. He died in the city of Santiago in 1985.

Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquis of Osorno

This caused alarm among the Huilliche of the Llanos de Osorno (flatlands of Osorno) who decided to ally with the Huilliche Aillarehues of the Río Bueno valley and those around Lake Ranco to the north and ask for the intervention of the Governor of Valdivia, Mariano Pusterla.

Eleuterio Ramírez

Eleuterio Ramírez Molina (April 18, 1837 in Osorno- November 27, 1879 in Tarapacá) was a Chilean military figure.

German colonization of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue

Land conflicts appeared as German colonization expanded into new areas like the coastal region of Osorno and Andean lakes and valleys beyond the colonization area in the shores of Llanquihue Lake.

From 1850 to 1875 the Chilean region around Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue in Southern Chile received thousands of German immigrants as part of a state-led colonization scheme.

Llanquihue Province

Chile's second largest lake, Lake Llanquihue, is located in the province as well as four volcanoes: Osorno, Calbuco, Puntiagudo and Cerro Tronador.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Osorno

The diocese, which comprises the entire province of Osorno in the Los Lagos region of Chile, covers a territory of 9,236 km² and has 22 parishes.


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