Huishue Lake Explained

Huishue Lake
Location:Lago Ranco, Chile
Coords:-40.4392°N -71.9964°W
Outflow:Melpue River
Basin Countries:Chile
Area:~15.1km2
Elevation:~ 500m (1,600feet)
Cities:nearest town Llifén (30 km)
Pushpin Map:Chile
Pushpin Map Alt:Location of Huishue Lake in Chile.

Huishue Lake (Spanish; Castilian: Lago Huishue, pronounced as /es/), Mapudungun for bad place to live, is located in the Andes of the Lago Ranco commune in southern Chile. More precisely the lake is located 10 km south of Maihue Lake (the drainage basin to which it belongs), 15 km northeast of Puyehue Volcano and 10 km west of the Chile-Argentina border.

Around the year shift of 1948-1949 Chilean poet Pablo Neruda hid in the Fundo Huishue forestry estate from the then legalized persecution of communists. Neruda left Huishue March 1, 1949 and fled Chile via the Ipela Pass to his exile in Argentina and then Europe.