Cordillera del Piuchén

{{Short description|Mountain range on Chiloé Island, Chile}}

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Cordillera del Piuchén is one of the two mountain ranges located on Chiloé Island, in southern Chile. It is located along the Pacific Coast, and is part of the Chilean Coast Range System.

Its northern boundary is the Chacao Channel,{{fact|date=December 2023}} while to the south it is separated from the Pirulil Range by Cucao Lake.

The vegetation in the uplands of Cordillera del Piuchén is made up of Magellanic moorland.{{cite journal |last1=Villagrán |first1=Carolina |author-link=Carolina Villagrán |date=1988 |title=Expansion of Magelianic Moorland during the Late Pleistocene: Palynological Evidence from Northern isla de Chiloé, Chile|journal=Quaternary Research |volume=30 |pages=304–314 }}{{cite journal|last1=Ramírez |first1=Carlos |last2=San Martin |first2=Cristina|last3=Vidal |first3=Osvaldo|last4=Pérez |first4=Yéssica|last5=Valenzuela |first5=Jorge |last6=Solís |first6=José-Luís|last7=Toledo |first7=Gisela |date=2014 |title=Tundra Subantártica en la Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile: Flora y vegetación turbosa de campañas|trans-title=Subantarctic Tundra in Chiloé Island, Chile: Flora and vegetation of "Campañas" peat bogs |url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-686X2014000200002&script=sci_arttext |journal=Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia |volume=42 |issue=2 |doi=10.4067/S0718-686X2014000200002 |access-date=January 29, 2018|language=es |doi-access=free }}

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Category:Chilean Coast Range

Category:Mountain ranges of Chile

Category:Landforms of Los Lagos Region

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