- Aisén
Aisén or Aysén may refer to the following places in
Chile :*
Aisén Region
*Aisén Province
*Aisén, Chile - a commune
*Puerto Aisén - a cityEtymology
The name Aisén may come from the
Huilliche word "Achen," meaning "to crumble". Another theory suggests that it was a term used by theChonos culture meaning "going more to the interior," in reference to the Fjord of Aisén that stretches east from the Moraleda strait.During the 1990s, it was suggested that the name might be derived from an 1831 map made by captain
Robert Fitz-Roy , who made an expedition to the coast onboard theBeagle withCharles Darwin and labeled the area around modern Aisén province with the words "Ice End." This theory, however, was largely dismissed because the name "Aysen" appears in documents of the explorer Father Garcia, who made an expedition to this region in 1766, more than 60 years prior to the arrival of the Beagle. Despite this, the Fitz-Roy myth has become popular among the many European tourists who visit Patagonia each year.pelling note
All current official documents use "Aisén", as this is the name given by the Military Geographic Institute, the authority sanctioning official Chilean place names. This is legally established in Decree 1,439 [ [http://transparente.recoleta.cl/descargar_archivos/normativa_procedimientos/1439.pdf Decree 1,439, Interior Ministry of Chile] ] The spelling "Aysén" is preferred by people living in the region and is used by the Municipality of Aisén website. Another argument in favor of "Aisén" is in the nature of the Spanish orthography, which does not use the letter "y" as a vowel. For example, the word "aymará" was changed by the Royal Spanish Academy to "aimará". [" [http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=253698 Cómo se escribe: ¿Aisén o Aysén?] ." "EMOL", accessed
May 1 2007 ]References
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