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Ninety seconds on Península de Lacuy
An hour or two past the fort and the lighthouse takes in the Chaicura and Balcacura gun batteries, with trails and lookouts over the water on both sides. At Balcacura you can see mounds of shells from early indigenous settlements.
Out of town, the coast road passes Lechagua beach and the mussel and seaweed lines of Quetalmahue, then crosses the Río Quilo. The island's first known inhabitants camped by the river here about 6,200 years ago.
Beyond the bridge the peninsula is farmland and forest. Chaicura looks back across both gulfs to the town, and Balcacura, the battery furthest from Ancud by land, has a small site museum.
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