Temuco Univerciudad

The Cerro Ñielol (Ñielol Hill) is one of the most emblematic attractions of Temuco. It has a high historical and cultural meaning for the city, since today it is a park where the “Patagua del Armisticio” (“Patagua of Armistice”) grows, a big old native tree, that remembers the realization of the parliament between Mapuche and Chilean who signed the peace in its shade.

Cerro Ñielol as a park has the category of “Natural Monument” and covers 89 hectares lying 200 m above sea level. It has four hiking trails and a nice viewpoint on its top, many lagoons, outlooks, picnic places, children playgrounds, a visitor information center and a restaurant with the complete view over the city.

In it´s native forest trees like laurel, raulí, coigüe and roble grow, decorated by our national flower, the copihue, a climbing plant. There is also abundant fauna, especially birds like the bandurria and the tiuque, mammals like the chilla fox and marsupials like the monito del monte, considered the tiniest marsupial of the world.

At the top of the hill we find the “Observatorio Vulcanológico de Los Andes del Sur “. Cerro Ñielol is the only Chilean protected area that is located within the urban radius of a city. To get there you have to take Prat Street, it is open during the whole year until 10.00 pm.

Opened April 1929, the Municipal market is a traditional place for selling Mapuche handicrafts, so it is an obligatory place to visit in the center of Temuco. Textile, silverware, carved wood and antique shops offer their products, many restaurants prepare typical plates of local gastronomy and seafood.

Entrances lie on the streets Portales, Rodríguez, Aldunate and Bulnes. In the winter it opens from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm Monday to Saturday and from 8.00 am to 3.00 pm on Sundays and holydays, in the summer from 8.00 am to 8.00 pm Monday to Saturday and from 8.00 am to 3.00 pm on Sundays and holydays.

Dreams Casino, Hotel & Spa, is a complete entertainment center of 36 thousand square meters that opened recently on Avenida Alemania in Temuco. It has 580 machines, 36 play tables and 352 bingo positions. The five stars hotel has 96 rooms distributed in five stories. The boulevard has six specialty and thematic restaurants. The complex has also a convention center, discotheque, spa and stores like “El Mundo del Vino” (“The World of Wines”) and Artesanías de Chile (Handicrafts of Chile). It opens from Sunday to Tuesday from 10:00 am to 05:00 am, and Fridays and Saturdays from 10.00 am to 06:00 am.

On approximately 54 thousand square meters, the Mall Portal Temuco has over hundred shops, seven movie rooms, two retail stores, one family entertainment center “Aventura Center” and the supermarket “Hipermercado Jumbo”. Located at the center of Avenida Alemania and five minutes from downtown, it is one of the most important commercial centers of the country and the only one in La Araucanía. Address: Avenida Alemania 0671, contact phone (56-45) 297900.

Open market built 1945 near the Railroad Station to be used as a storage and trade center of agricultural products of the surroundings. It has 700 stands distributed on three blocks, where it is possible to find fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products, legumes and handicraft. Located at Aníbal Pinto Street, by the Railroad station (sector Estación de Ferrocarriles). It is open from 8:00 am to 5.00 pm in the winter and from 8:00 am to 6.00 pm in the summer.

This space for distribution and sale brings together the best of craftsmanship and design with regional approach, promoting the traditional handicrafts and innovation in product development, in order to raise their standards of quality and competitiveness. Lotusland artisans of great experience and diversity of territories, with local young designers who have contributed to giving an identity and its own seal.

Pertaining to the Craft Program of the Department of Design at the Catholic University of Temuco and located in the Campus Menchaca Lira, offers a wide variety of parts textiles, wood, silver and metalwork contemporary Mapuche, among others. Avenue is located in Germany 0422, Menchaca Lira on campus, is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 to 13:00 hours and 15:00 to 20:00 hours on Saturday mornings only, Phone: 045-553839.

Created to promote textile, pottery and silverware handicrafts production and sale, it gets together women of different Mapuche communities of the Region in order to maintain old techniques and designs transmitted from one generation to the next, guaranteeing its heritage character and the continuity of own cultural manifestations. Located at 283 Prat Street.