Large Lake in Southern Chile Has Disappeared

"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal...We went again in May and to our surprise, we found the lake had completely disappeared. The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake bed and an enormous fissure."

- Juan Jose Romero, Reg. Dir., CONAF

Perhaps as much as 10 acres of lake water one hundred feet deep are gone from the Magallanes region of southern Chile.Ice chunks were left behind and a new, large ground fissure, which might have resulted from an earthquake between March and May 2007. Perhaps the lake water is underground. Image courtesy CONAF.

June 21, 2007 Santiago, Chile - Chile's National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) reports that water in a well known lake covering perhaps as much as ten acres 100-feet-deep in the Magallanes region near Chile's southern tip has vanished.

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