Details About Valdivia

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Valdivia is an attractive and original city founded on 9th February 1552, with two big rivers that make of navigable water and then join in the estuary of river Valdivia. The gentle slopes along the road will give you different images where the rumour of the water mingles with the green of cultivated lands and intermitent forests. The design of the city is adapted to the irregular topography and the curves of river Calle Calle, what originates multiple corners that will surprise you with their rich architecture inherited from German colonization.

Activities

The jetty Schuster, tourist port with walk ships and the market of the city where the boats arrive with the products of the sea and the boats that get off the rivers with agricultural merchandise.
The museum Mauricio Van de Maele (historical and anthropological), it belongs to the Southern University of Chile. It possesses dedicated rooms to remind the arrival of the first German colonists in 1849 and it also possesses pieces that remember the archaeology and customs mapuches like objects carved in wood, silver crafts, ceramic, leather and textile.
The Southern University of Chile and particularly their botanical garden with native plants.
The coastal of Valdivia: the one that surrounds to the residential neighborhood next to the river and that of Collico with a popular beach.

Currency

Currency of Chile is the Chilean Peso($).

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