Puerto Pichidangui (32°09'S., 71°33'W.) recedes about 1 mile E between Punta Quelen and Punta Salinas, about 1.5 miles SSW. The bight affords a completely sheltered anchorage from the SW, but is exposed to the sea during NW winds. The holding is poor and large vessels should use the bay as a temporary anchorage only. The Rio Quilimari, which flows into the head of the bay, is spanned by two prominent bridges about 125m apart which lie about 0.5 mile above the mouth of the river. A wreck lies in about 4.6m of water, near the NE shore of the harbor off the mouth of the Rio Quilimari.

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