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Pilolcura

beach and hamlet in Chile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7194302 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pilolcura (Mapudungun for hollow stone) is a beach and hamlet in Valdivia Province, Los Ríos Region, Chile. It is named after the conglomerate formations on its beach, which resemble a stone castle with large arches.

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The public source identifies “Pilolcura” as beach and hamlet in Chile. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pilolcura, beach and hamlet.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 35-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pilolcura, beach and hamlet providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7194302. Authority coordinates are -39.667, -73.350. 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 “Pilolcura” 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.