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Puerto Toro is a village on the eastern coast of Navarino Island, Chile. It belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. It claims to be the southernmost community on the globe (if one discounts the Argentine government's claim that its Antarctic research stations are communities), located at Coordinates: . Puerto Toro is inhabited by 36 people according to INE's 2002 census, including fishermen and their families.

Over a hundred years ago, Puerto Toro was one of the most important towns in the region of the Beagle Channel as a result of "gold fever." Once interest in exploring for gold passed, however, Puerto Toro's importance diminished. Today, Puerto Toro is known for "centolla", the prized southern king crab.

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Isla Navarino is a Chilean island located strategically between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and the Cape Horn, to the south. The island forms part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, southernmost in the country and in the world, belonging to the Antártica Chilena
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Motto
Por la Razón o la Fuerza
(Spanish: "By right or might")
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Chile
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Provincia Antártica Chilena is one of four provinces in its southernmost region, Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. The capital is Puerto Williams. The province is nearly 1,250,000 km² in area, which makes it almost twice as large as all other provinces of Chile combined.
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Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region is the southernmost, largest and second least populated region of Chile. In Chile's Roman numeral system of designation of regions, it is Region XII.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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Beagle Channel is a strait separating islands of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, in extreme southern South America. It separates Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego from several smaller islands to the south.
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The term king crab is also sometimes used for the horseshoe crab Limulus.

King crabs

Paralithodes californiensis


Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
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The southernmost settlements in the world, excluding research bases in Antarctica (there are already permanent settlements there), are:

Location Latitude Population
Estación Naval Islas Diego Ramirez, Chile 56º30' S
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