Last updated:: 1:35 PM ET, Wed December 16, 2020 Chiloé Island is located in southern Chile and is known as a place of Chilean myths and legends. Houses stand on stilts here; the elaborate churches ...

After a two-day stopover in Santiago, Chile’s capital city, where Salina, a new friend and movie fan, said Chiloe Island, also known as Chiloe Grande, reminded her of “the shire,” I wasn’t ...

CHILOE ISLAND, Chile – Food and gasoline were running dangerously low Friday on this Chilean island that has been blocked from the mainland by desperate fishermen demanding compensation for ...

St. Francis Church in Castro, Chile, a World Heritage Site The stately wooden church at Castro, Chiloe Island, Chile, with the antics that happen outside of it on Plaza de Armas.

Chile's Chiloe Island, which is home to a UNESCO Heritage Site-listed group of sixteen wooden Jesuit churches, is so remote that even some Chileans will tell you that they've never heard of the ...

Chiloé is the second largest island in South America and just one island of an archipelago of southern Chile. Chilotes, as the residents are known, consider themselves a people apart, a proud ...

From Castro, it's a 35-mile drive across the island to the Pacific shore. Once there, you still need to hike one mile across the dunes in Chiloe National Park, just west of the ranger station.

December 23, 2019 Why Your Next Island Getaway Should Be in Chile Visit the island of Chiloé before the crowds catch on and this natural paradise loses an ounce of its traditional charm.

CASTRO, Chile — The farm woman selling the orange and pink hand-knit dolls at the farm market in Castro, on Chiloe Island, is telling me where she gets the wool; I’m trying to answer, and we ...

Chilean island -- In a map with an article in Sunday’s Section A about a planned bridge linking Chiloe Island to mainland Chile, the distance scale should have been labeled 50 miles, not 500.