Puyuhuapi


Puyuhuapi is a village in southern Chile in the Aysén Region. It is located on Route 7, the Carretera Austral, where the Rio Pascal enters the head of the Puyuhuapi fjord, a small fjord off the Ventisquero Sound. Its harbor on the fjord is called Puerto Puyuhuapi. Puyuhuapi is administratively in the Chilean commune of Cisnes. In the 2002 census it had a population of 535, but by 2007 it had grown to 826. Just southwest of the village are the Puyuhuapi hot springs.
It is served by Puyuhuapi Airport.
Among the local handicrafts are hand-made jerseys.

In popular culture

Puyuhuapi was featured in the 2014 episode of Top Gear, and in 2019 on DW News's documentary "On route 7 into the heart of Patagonia"