Puerto Montt Sights

  1. Av Angelmó Street Stalls

    Along busy, diesel-fume-laden Av Angelmó is a dizzying mix of streetside stalls (selling artifacts, heaps of smoked mussels, cochayuyo - edible sea plant - and mysterious trinkets), crafts markets and touristy seafood restaurants with croaking waiters beckoning you to a table. Enjoy the frenzy, but keep on going..

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  2. Casa del Arte Diego Rivera

    The upstairs Sala Hardy Wistuba at the Casa del Arte Diego Rivera, a joint Mexican-Chilean project finished in 1964, displays work by local and foreign artists and photographers. The downstairs Sala de Espectáculos offers theater, dance and film.

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  3. Iglesia Catedral

    Built entirely of alerce in 1856, the Iglesia Catedral on the Plaza de Armas is the town's oldest building.

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  4. Isla Tenglo

    Offshore Isla Tenglo, reached by inexpensive launches from the docks at Angelmó, is a favorite local beach spot.

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  5. Museo Juan Pablo II

    Puerto Montt's waterfront Museo Juan Pablo II has displays on natural history, archaeology, the island of Chiloé, maritime history and weapons, religious iconography, German colonization and local urbanism.

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  7. Parque Nacional Alerce Andino

    Although lightly visited, the mountainous 40,000-hectare (98,842-acre) Parque Nacional Alerce Andino provides excellent opportunities to hike through rare and protected old-growth alerce forest. Lush evergreen forest ranges from sea level to 900m (2953ft), a thick twisting medley of coigue and ulmo , ferns, climbing vines and dense thickets of quila .

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