Llankiwe Lake

Llankiwe, usually written Llanquihue, lies in the wooded country south of Osorno, beneath the volcano of that name. Its waters drain west through the Maullín River toward the Pacific. Forested banks and the scale of the water made its full outline hard for outsiders to establish. José de Moraleda's surveys of 1792 to 1796 placed the Osorno volcano between a lake called Purahillo and Todos los Santos, and showed the Maullín issuing from Purahillo.