Official Name: | Queule |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Chile |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 80 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Chile |
Subdivision Type1: | Admin. division |
Subdivision Name1: | Araucanía Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Cautín Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Commune |
Subdivision Name3: | Toltén |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2002 http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/demografia_y_vitales/demografia/demografia.php |
Population Total: | 1422 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | -39.3833°N -87°W |
Queule is a Chilean town in the commune of Toltén in Cautín Province, Araucanía Region. It is located just north of Mehuín and close to the border of Araucanía Region with Los Ríos Region.
Days after the 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami a police officer stationed in Queule reported hundreds of people from Quele to be dead or missing. Historians Yoselin Jaramillo and Ismael Basso report that people in Queule decades later know about 50 people to have died because of the earthquake and tsunami.[1]