Curanipe
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File:Puesta sol San Pedro2.jpg
Curanipe (in mapudungun: "plum tree that grows in the rock") is a town and seat of the municipality of Pelluhue, Province of Cauquenes, in VII Maule Region of Chile.
A popular and charming coastal resort, Curanipe used to be a well-known and secluded hangout for the Cauquenes elite and a proud regional "minor port", during the mid- and late 19th century. The town has a quaint architectural style that echoes the colonial rural architecture of Chile.
The Curanipe parish church of Santo Toribio, is a beautifully preserved religious building overlooking the town.
On 27 February 2010 at 06:34:14 GMT (03:34:14 AM local time), a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck the seafloor 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Curanipe.[https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/events/us/2010tfan/index.html USGS 8.8 Earthquake in Chile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302200203/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/events/us/2010tfan/index.html |date=March 2, 2010 }}