Isla de Yáquil

Village in Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile

Isla de Yáquil
Village
Isla de Yáquil
Country	Chile
Region	Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins
Province	Colchagua
Commune	Santa Cruz

Isla de Yáquil (Spanish for Island of Yáquil; also known as La Isla) is a Chilean town located in Santa Cruz, Colchagua Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region.

In 1899 it was described in Francisco Solano Astaburuaga y Cienfuegos' Diccionario Geográfico de la República de Chile as "a location of the northern section of the Curicó Department located in some hills of the same name, north of the village of Santa Cruz and Quinchañihue".^[1]

Notable residents

Juan José Cañete (d. 1896)
Sergio Espejo, Chilean deputy and Minister of Transport during the first Government of Michelle Bachelet

References

^ Astaburuaga Cienfuegos, Francisco, ed. (1899). "Yaquil" . Diccionario Geográfico de la República de Chile (Geographic Dictionary of the Republic of Chile) (in Spanish).

34°38′S 71°11′W / 34.633°S 71.183°W / -34.633; -71.183