Guayaneco Archipelago

These glaciers dissected these mountain islands into a series of deep river valleys and glacial troughs.

The archipelago is thought to have been a cohabitational contact zone between different canoe-faring indigenous peoples living north and south of it.

[1] John Montgomery Cooper points out that it possibly made up a "meeting ground of quasi-friendly bilingual tribes".

The survivors of the wreck were rescued by a party of indigenous Chono travelling in dalcas and led by Martín Olleta.

[4][5] With some likehood, this led to the assimilation of Chono families into the Kawésqar who survive into the present.