Elementos Eco Lodge

Sur Chico


This new sustainable lodge on the road to Caburgua features eight grass-roofed rooms and suites made from straw and mud with Río Liucura views from the bathtubs and showers. Each room is themed after a Mapuche Ngen (spirit element) and features corresponding color and aromatherapy. The wooden furniture was carved by a Mapuche mamuillñfe (ceremonial sculptor) to match the theme.

You can take the Chilean-German-Mapuche-style breakfast on the outdoor terrace overlooking the organic gardens shaped like a kultrün (Mapuche drum). It's run by Elementos, a great Pucón-based etnotourism agency, who can obviously get you out and about on a wealth of culture, nature and gastronomy tours.


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