Chiloé Foodways

Island

An archipelago with its own identity, its own wooden churches on the UNESCO list and its own mythology. POTATOES above all — Chiloé is a centre of potato origin and holds hundreds of native varieties; CURANTO, cooked in a pit on hot stones under nalca leaves with shellfish, fish, pork, chicken, potatoes, MILCAO and CHAPALELE; seaweed — luche, cochayuyo; the apple chicha and the minga work-party; and a Mapuche-Huilliche and Spanish population that was the last royalist stronghold in South America.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Región de los Lagos territory

Communities and languages

Chilotes community documented
Huilliche community documented

Languages: Spanish, Mapudungun

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

related to Pachamanca documented
Curanto, pachamanca, huatia and the Rapa Nui umu are four earth-oven traditions of the same broad kind and different origins.