Lemuy Island

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Lemuy ( Mapudungun for forested ) is an island in the south of Chile in the Región de los Lagos. It is the third largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago Chiloé by itself and Quinchao. It has an area of ​​97 km ². The island is dominated by agriculture, easy to reach and slightly hilly with an hourly car ferry from the larger Isla de Chiloé.

On the island there are nine towns, which together form the Municipality ( Communa ) Puqueldón with 4125 inhabitants.

On the north coast:

• Puqueldón
• Aldachildo
• Ichuac

On the south coast:

• Chulchuy. From here the ferry operates according to Huicha far from Chonchi on the larger neighboring island of Chiloé.
• Lincay, with around 1900 erbauter wooden church
• Liucura, with a built in the mid- 19th century wooden church

On the east coast:

• Detif
• Puchilco. The wooden church from the 19th century are notable paintings of Peruvian artist Miguel Gamarra

In the middle of the island:

• San Agustín, the only village on the island, which is not located on the coast. In the center a wooden church from the 20th century is worth seeing, in a forest near the village of the small sanctuary La Animita from the late 19th century.

Some of the wooden churches of Lemuy, namely Jesús Nazareno in Aldachildo, Virgen de la Candelaria in Ichuac and Virgen de Lourdes in Detif were included along with other of the Chiloé Archipelago in the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.

The church, Iglesia San Jesús Nazareno in Aldachildo on the north coast of Isla Lemuy was built in the late 19th century and declared on 10 August 1999 to the National cultural monument before it was recorded in November 2000 in the World Heritage Site. Renovations - particularly in the area of Tower and facade - made ​​in 2005 and 2007 The conspicuous church is located in the center and near the beach. .