Corcovado Forest

The Corcovado forest stretches across the wet Andean coast east of the Gulf of Corcovado. Dense temperate woodland covers mountain slopes cut by rivers descending towards the Pacific. The Chaitén caldera rises in this region; its obsidian was used by Indigenous people and carried along the coast. Rain, steep terrain and a maze of inlets distinguish these forests from the drier Patagonian steppe beyond the mountains.