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Hualqui
South America is the fourth largest continent of the Western Hemisphere. It is divided politically into 12 independent countries namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela and the overseas department of French Guiana. The continent extends to 7,640 kilometers from Punta Gallinas, Colombia, in the north to Cape Horn, Chile, in the south. At its broadest point, near where it is crossed by the equator, the continent extends to 5,300 kilometers from east to west. South America is connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama.
Hualqui is a small commune located at about 24 kilometers to the southwest part of Conception, by the shore of the Bio-Bio River in the VIII region of the Biobio and at about 30 kilometers from its opening. Its population is of approximately 17,000 inhabitants, 11,000 of them in the urban nucleus and about 6,000 dispersed ones in the rest of the commune. Hualqui has stayed aside from the urban development of the metropolitan area of Conception, conserving a certain rural air. In fact its main source of wealth continues being the logging, although it has been accentuated the tourist facet, being frequent destiny of excursionists and veraneantes that accede in search of colorful landscapes and of places of bath in summer.
Hualqui, justifiably so, enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers, and is one of the most visited place. It is also said the place of best geographical environment and can trace its origin back to prehistoric times.
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