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Dalcahue Channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ5210282 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dalcahue Channel (Spanish: "Canal de Dalcahue") is a body of water of the Sea of Chiloé that separates Quinchao Island from Chiloé Island, both part of the Chiloé Archipelago in southern Chile. The town of Dalcahue is located close to the narrowest part.

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“Dalcahue Channel” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dalcahue, Channel and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dalcahue, Channel and Open-knowledge.
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“Dalcahue Channel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dalcahue, Channel and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q5210282. Authority coordinates are -42.385, -73.656. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dalcahue Channel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.