LrD114-0867_0871 - Haverbeck Islet - Valdivia - Chile

Description:
Printed with a 12 inkjet printer over Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Signed certificate of authenticity.

Story:

I found the Naguilán Hotel with a curious construction design that captured my attention.

Checking Google, I found it was adjacent to the Valdivia River and in front of an islet. Called the hotel asking for a higher floor with a river view; which they did, assigning a room with a balcony.

Reading Valdivia history, I discovered that the islet was the shipyard of the Haverbeck Skalweit shipping company.

It was May 22nd, 1960, on a Sunday afternoon one of the greatest earthquakes and tsunami destructed Valdivia. Therefore, the telluric force unleveled the land by 209 centimeters (82.3 inches), flooding all surrounding islands.

The city of Valdivia is at sea level, so the Islet disappeared under water for 36 years. Only in 1996 when a subsidiarity of the Haverbeck company reconstructed the islet by dredging the river, recovering 20 hectares (49 acres) of land.

Mother Nature made miracles, which recovered the splendor that the Haverbeck Islet had before the earthquake.