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Academic unit: Villarrica Campus


Photo: Dientes de Navarino. In the back are brown and green hills. In the front are some white and brown roots above the green grass. In the middle of both is water.

CHIC Project: A Look at Climate Change from the Far Reaches of the World

The Cape Horn International Center, a consortium of seven universities, seeks to study and monitor how sub-Antarctic ecosystems respond to climate change.

Lake in the middle of snow-capped mountains

Three faculty urging action to protect the Chilean mountains

They want Chilean scientists to come together with communities and stakeholders to tackle the degradation of Chile's mountains.

Maria Lara reading a book to children in a library

The ancient language of Mapudungun is very alive today

A group of faculty members from the Villarrica Campus is actively working towards revitalizing the Mapuche language through the celebration of the ……

Elisa Loncon in a traditional Mapuche outfit..

Elisa Loncon: The decolonization of language

In 2016, Revista Universitaria (the University Magazine) interviewed professor Elisa Loncon. On Sunday, July 4, the professor and researcher of the Mapudungún…

an eclipse of the sun is shown in this image

Why solar eclipses are important to science?

Araucanía will be the scenery of one of the most captivating Astronomy events: an eclipse. For two minutes, the sky will darken completely, revealing only a…