Puerto Gala

Puerto Gala

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	Puerto Gala
	Coordinates: 44°15′27″S 73°12′33″W / 44.257524°S 73.209253°WCoordinates: 44°15′27″S 73°12′33″W / 44.257524°S 73.209253°W
Region	Aysén
Province	Aysén
Municipality	Cisnes
Commune	Cisnes
Government
• Type	Municipal
Time zone	UTC−04:00 (Chilean Standard)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−03:00 (Chilean Daylight)
Area code(s)	Country + town = 56 + 67

Puerto Gala or Gala is a hamlet and fishing community in , southern Chile. It is located at the meeting point of with Moraleda Channel. The hamlet was established consequence of the merluza boom of the late 1980s.^[1] Some early settlers arrived to Gala escaping persecution from the military dictatorship of Pinochet as they lacked the resources to flee abroad.^[2] Other early settlers were delinquents who feared torture or death by the authorities.^[2] There was a distinct lack of rule of law in the first decades of existence, with police being unable to prevent theft or murder limiting themselves to recover corpses.^[2] Because of this police attempted to dissolve the settlement by threatening to evict settlers under the pretext that the settlements were illegal.^[2] Evictions attempts failed in the end.^[2]

As the merluza boom unraveled, artisan fishermen of Puerto Gala and Puerto Gaviota came into conflict with industrial fisheries.^[2] Overexploitation led eventually the government to put a ban on merluza fishing leading to unemployment and the return to Chiloé of some settlers.^[2]

References[]

^ Saavedra G., Gonzalo (2007). "Prácticas Económicas en las Costas Insulares de Aisén. Testimonios de Persistencia y Transformación" (PDF). Actas del 6º Congreso Chileno de Antropología. VI Congreso Chileno de Antropología (in Spanish). Valdivia: Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile A. G. pp. 1696–1703.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Marín Lleucún, Alejandro (2015). "Puerto Gala y Puerto Gaviota (1985-1993): Una mirada desde el triángulo de la violencia" [Port of Gala and Port of Gaviota (1985-1993): A look from the triangle of violence]. Magallania (in Spanish). 43 (2). Retrieved January 10, 2019.

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[Gonz-1] Saavedra G., Gonzalo (2007). "Prácticas Económicas en las Costas Insulares de Aisén. Testimonios de Persistencia y Transformación" (PDF). Actas del 6º Congreso Chileno de Antropología. VI Congreso Chileno de Antropología (in Spanish). Valdivia: Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile A. G. pp. 1696–1703.

[marin-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Marín Lleucún, Alejandro (2015). "Puerto Gala y Puerto Gaviota (1985-1993): Una mirada desde el triángulo de la violencia" [Port of Gala and Port of Gaviota (1985-1993): A look from the triangle of violence]. Magallania (in Spanish). 43 (2). Retrieved January 10, 2019.

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