[2] The species is endemic to central Chile, where it has been found in a wide variety of habitats, from coastal to montane.

[1] Coruros are robust rodents with large heads, short necks and stocky bodies.

[1] Coruros are colonial rodents, a number of individuals occupying a single burrow system.

They leave behind bulbs in order for them to grow, thus allowing them to return to the area for vegetation.

[3] Coruros feed entirely underground on grasses, herbs, roots and bulbs of geophytes such as Leucocoryne ixioides (which forms the bulk of its diet),[5] Dioscorea longipes,[6] or species of Libertia, Sisyrinchium or Alophia.