Cambios

[[ES:Península Lican Ray]]

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The signage used for this route is divided into two types according to its function:

==Route description==

'''Milestone Nº1 - Entrance to the peninsula'''

At the beginning of this century, all the land that currently occupies Lican Ray was a forest of "Nothofagus oblique" in which dominated the pellín, laurel and lingue. Among the species were also cinnamon, hazel, lleuque, mañío, ulmo, tepa, among others. The historic development of Lican Ray begins with its foundation in 1942 by Don Francisco Jaramillo, who turns Lican Ray into a town, located on the ancestral lands used by an indigenous community called Loncopan. The process of colonization consisted in the free delivery of sites, reaching the population of the surroundings to be established; all of them reinforced by the installation of the company of Ferrocarriles del Estado and logging companies. In 1948 the exploitation of the forest, the main wealth of the area, ends, diminishing employment due to the exhaustion of the resource, which is why the town began to decline and people left. In 1966, to diminish migration, the government of the time defined Lican Ray as a town with a tourist vocation, selling and selling sites, with the condition of building houses and finishing their urbanization. According to the censuses, in 1960 there were 68 dwellings, in 1970 these increased to 533 and today there are between 600 and 700 houses, with an approximate population of 3,000 inhabitants. Of these two thirds are summer homes, which are only occupied during this season. In the summer homes there are several architectural styles dominating widely the constructions of wood of a single floor, varying its size and terminations. On the other hand, the houses of the residents, more modest, stand out for having intensively used orchards.

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At 100 meters from the fork there is Hito N ° 5 or Viewpoint of the glacial modeling. Here you can appreciate a general view of the Lican Ray, especially the Playa Chica, observing the northern sector of Lake Calafquén. In this natural viewpoint you can see the landscape of high mountains and valleys, formed by the glaciations, in a period of very long times. The last ice age began a million and a half years ago. It is in this period that the glaciers covered all the mountains and moved down the slopes, generating strong erosion. In this area, mountain summits average 1,800 m.s. The topographic relief here would have been softened by the volcanism present in the area, highlighting as the highest the Lanin volcano with 3.776 m.s.n.m.

At 300 meters from Hito Nº6 is Hito Nº7 or Risk Zone. In this sector of the circuit, the path is narrower and it is recommended to travel this area following the path without approaching the banks, as there are steep slopes with abundant organic material loose, which gives instability to the ground.

'''Milestone Nº8 - Main viewpoint of the lake and its islands'''

If you continue the path that borders the lake, at 130 meters you will find Hito No. 9 or Access to Playa Grande, which has a railing that facilitates the descent through a steep slope to that place.

'''Milestone Nº10 - Playa Grande'''

During the visit to the peninsula, in the spring and summer seasons, the significant presence of the copihue will draw attention. A climbing shrub of the lilac family, which receives the scientific name of '' Lapageria rosea ''. The copihue is the national flower of Chile since 1977, it is currently a species in extinction, and therefore, its commercialization as a cut flower is forbidden, currently being sold as a plant. Its red, pink, yellow, white or mixed flowers are hanging and fleshy between 5 and 10 cm in length, formed by 6 petals (3 internal and 3 external), bell-shaped appearance. This plant takes about 10 years to flower, with flowering from March to May. It grows in dark forests where there is great humidity present. In the Mapuche language the copihue is called '' Copiu ''.

There are two legends in Mapuche mythology that narrate the birth of the '' copihue ''. One of them says that the Mapuche warriors, survivors of the battles, climbed the trees to see the result of the fight. When they realized that their companions lay dead on the ground and that only destruction reigned, they shed tears that turned into flowers of blood. These flowers or copihues allowed to remember the spirits of the dead in battles. The second legend tells that the Mapuche princess '' Hues '' and the Pehuenche prince '' Copih '', loved each other in secret. One day they were found by Copiñiel, her father, on the shores of the Nahuel lagoon, at the same moment, '' Copih '' and '' Hues '' were pierced in the heart with spears, both dying and sinking in the lagoon. Some time later, the Mapuche and Pehuenche peoples, saddened by the absence of them, gathered on the shores of the lagoon to remember them. At dawn, two spears emerged from the waters, both were intertwined and tied by a vine and there were two beautiful elongated flowers, one red as blood and one as white as snow. These flowers were baptized as copihue, in honor of the union of lovers.

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