Tralcán

Tralcán (Mapudungun for thunder) is a triangular-shaped mountain, which is located near Riñihue Lake, Chile.

It is located south of the outflow dividing western Riñihue in two arms.

Despite having been sacred to the Huilliches for centuries, the mount became famous when several landslides near Tralcan dammed the Riñihue Lake after the 1960 Valdivia earthquake.

The water levels in the lake rose more than 20 m and became a threat to the existence of Valdivia city.

The mountain is made of volcanic sediments from the Triassic making it one of the few fossiliferous sequences from the Mesozoic in Zona Sur.