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| Placename | Meaning | Region (Chile) or Province (Argentina) |
Type | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caburgua | dug with a spoon | Araucanía | lake, waterfall | |
| Calafquén | lake like a sea | Araucanía, Los Ríos | lake | |
| Calbuco | blue waters | Los Lagos | channel, city/town, peninsula, volcano | |
| Caleufú | Neuquén | river | ||
| Callaqui | Bío-Bío | volcano | ||
| Calle-Calle | lot of Iridaceaes | Los Ríos | river | once called Guadalfquén |
| Carahue | the city that was | Araucanía | city/town | |
| Carelmapu | green territory | Los Lagos | headland | |
| Carirriñe | green chusquea coleou cane | Los Ríos, Neuquén | mountain pass, river | |
| Carrenleufú | Chubut | city/town | ||
| Catirai | callyíi, to cut, and raigheii, the flower of the trees, meaning short flowers | Bío-Bío | valley | |
| Cau-Cau | kawkaw 'seagull' | Los Ríos | river | |
| Chacay | Discaria serratifolia | Atacama | valley | |
| Chacao | protected harbour | Los Lagos | bay, channel, village | |
| Chapelco | chapel (a local bush) water | Neuquén | mountain, river | |
| Chillán | Bío-Bío | city | ||
| Chiloé | chille 'small seagull' and -we 'place' | Los Lagos | archipelago, island | |
| Chimbarongo | crooked head or place between fogs | O'Higgins | city/town | |
| Choshuenco | yellow water | Los Ríos | city/town, volcano | |
| Cochamó | confluence/estuary | Los Lagos | bay, river, village | |
| Conguillío | water with Araucaria araucana pine nuts | Araucanía | lake | |
| Copahue | Bío-Bío | volcano | ||
| Colhué Huapi | red island | Chubut | lake | |
| Concón | place of owls | Valparaíso | city/town | |
| Coñaripe | way of the warrior | Los Ríos | city/town | |
| Cucao | Pteroptochus | Los Lagos | bay, lake, river | |
| Curarrehue | Araucanía | city/town | ||
| Curicó | kurü 'black' and ko 'water' | Maule | city/town | |
| Curiñanco | kurü 'black' and ñamko 'red-backed hawk' | Los Ríos | beach, village |
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