“We will be as rightful and industrious Chileans as any could be. Joining the ranks of our new compatriots, we will defend our adoptive country against every foreign agression, with the determination and firmness of the man who defends his homeland, his family and his interests”.

Carlos Anwandter, German colonizer in the Chilean Patagonia, 1850

“The water from this lake is as clear as Geneva's in Switzerland, its surface is about seven leagues long and similar width, in such a way that I could not distinguish the front border. It has, like Geneva's snowed Alps, the Andes mountain raising from its Eastern borders together with a volcano covered by snow up to a half of it and that it gets into the waters.”

Bernardo Eunom Philippi – February 1842

“When coming out of the dark forest, suddenly the most splendid panorama of the Llanquihue Lake appeared in front of us. It was like raising a theatre drop curtain that transforms a decoration into the sky.”

Vicente Pérez Rosales – December 1851