from Mapudungun "Green Land") is a port and town (Spanish: pueblo) at the western end of Chacao Channel, southern Chile.
In 1643 Carelmapu was sacked and its church vandalized by the Dutch corsair Hendrick Brouwer.
[2][3] On March 6, 1676 Carelmapu received the exhausted survivors of Pascual de Iriarte's expedition to the Strait of Magellan.
The last two were not located in Carelmapu proper but further east along the northern shores of Chacao Channel.
The original Fuerte de Carelmapu was built in wood in 1603.