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PUERTO MONTT |
 | | Puerto Montt was founded on February 12, 1853, by Vicente Perez Rosales, accompanied by a group of German settlers - those courageous and hardy men and women who settled on the apparently inhospitable land of the south of Chile. |
 | | However, nature dealt it a nasty blow in 1960, when an earthquake almost totally destroyed it; that event rekindled the pioneering spirit of the old settlers, and it was rebuilt thanks to the drive and courage of its population. |
 | | Puerto Montt is now a city of 110,000 inhabitants whose main industry is salmon fish farming, a constantly growing activity since 1985. |
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