Coigue

El camino continua por la otra ribera del Pichitrankura, una vasta pradera con renovales de coigues y roble pellin.

"laurel", Nothofagus dombeyi (Mirb.) Oerst "coigue", Laureliopsis philippiana (Looser) Schodde "tepa", among others) mixed with radiata pine wood at a ratio of 50/50.

The course, which has drawn the likes of Bill Clinton, Ted Turner and Fidel Castro, features several fine holes--with views of the snow-capped Andes--routed through old cypress, coigue and cinnamon-colored arrayan trees.

Myrtle beeches, also known as red myrtle and Tasmanian myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii), are similar to rauli, but the trees that grow in many of the same areas include coigue and roble.

But last July, Santiago's daily El Mercurio published a front-page photograph showing land once covered by coigue, lenga, and other species unique to Chile that had been cut and burned.

The cool beech forests of Tierra del Fuego, composed of rare lenga and coigue species, are now in danger of destruction.

Spanish conquistadors of present-day Chile encountered huge forests of coigue, rauli, lenga, alerce, araucaria, and pitao - trees that were named by the Mapuche, or "people of the earth." With the defeat of the defiant Mapuche south of the Biobio River in 1891, the conquistadors razed area forests to deprive the Mapuche of protective cover.

Nothofagus dombeyi Coigue Heartwood pale pinkish-brown to reddish or yellowish brown, sapwood paler; pith flecks may occur.

Of the southern beeches found in Chile, coigue looks similar to cherry veneer and is sometimes called Brazilian cherry.