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Ninety seconds on Fuerte Ahui
Start in the small site museum. Its finds, dug from this ground, show how the garrison lived, so the cannons and powder magazine outside make more sense afterwards.
Four hectares or so of stone walls stand above the water, with some of the Spanish cannons and the powder magazine still in place. The fort guarded the western entrance to the Chacao channel.
Below the walls, a beach of the same name opens onto the bay. Chaicura, the nearest of the other Spanish batteries, is a short way along the peninsula.
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