Lighthouses in Chile

Chile has a large and intricate coastline of 4000 km with myriads of islands, islets, straits, bays, and fjords.

In order to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, and safe entries to harbors, the Chilean authorities maintain 650 lighthouses from the border with Peru to the Atlantic Ocean.

He was a Scottish engineer who moved to Chile and eventually became the head of the Chilean Maritime Signaling Service.

There are no lightvessels in Chile, but 2 shipwrecks are used as a basis for lighthouses: the County of Peebles is used as breakwater in the harbour of Punta Arenas, and the Capitán Leonidas is located in the Messier Channel.

3007) by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA)[2] Navigational aids in Chile are provided by the Servicio de Señalización Marítima [Maritime Signalling Service], a department of the Dirección de Seguridad y Operaciones Marítimas (Dirsomar) [Directorate of Maritime Security and Operations], of the Dirección General del Territorio Marítimo y de Marina Mercante (Directemar) [Directorate General of the Maritime Territory and the Merchant Marine] of the Chilean Navy.

Punta Tablas lighthouse, 7 km north of Los Vilos in Central Chile
The Capitán Leonidas , sitting firmly on the flattened top of an underwater mountain called Bajo Cotopaxi in the Messier Channel of Chile, serves as a warning, both as shipwreck and lighthouse: 2068/G 1552(Bajo Cotopaxi) 48°44'45" S, 74°25'44" W