Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region, Chile Genealogy

Guide to Region of Aysén ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.



History
The Aysén region was the last to be joined to make the country, long after even the southernmost region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica. Its geographical location and transport difficulties explain the lack of interest aroused in the nineteenth century for these lands, to the point that no one even thought of colonizing them with immigrants, as happened with the other southern regions. Following the signing of the Boundary Treaty with Argentina in 1881, settlers came from the Pampas to the valleys that cross the Andes from east to west. The anonymous and private effort led to the spontaneous creation of cities in Puerto Aysen in 1904, Balmaceda Coyhaique in 1917 and 1929. The oldest of the towns is Melinka (the local legend says that it is "darling" or "lovely" in Russian, but it is not), established by mid-nineteenth century, on Ascension Island, the archipelago of the Guaitecas. The Aysen region is the least populated of the country. According to the 2002 census there were only 91,492 inhabitants. The largest cities according to the 2002 census are Coyhaique (population 44,850), Puerto Aysen (16,936), Chile Chico (3042), Puerto Cisnes (2517), Cochrane (2217), Melinka (1411) and Mañihuales Villa (1401).

Provinces
This province did not produce records until after the time period being microfilmed, indexed and digitized by FamilySearch.

Cemetery Records

 * 1821 - 2015 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Civil Registration

 * 1885-1932 - at FamilySearch — index and images