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She is from Cauquenes in the Maule region, where the local industry association reports damage to around 100 small vineyards.

Around 100 small vineyards in Cauquenes alone had been damaged so far, said the local industry association.

"All my fields burned, there were four hectares that I had and it all burned," she said, from Cauquenes in the Maule region.

Its greatest tributary is the Cachapoal, in the valley of which, among the Andean foothills, are the popular thermal mineral baths of Cauquenes, 2306 ft. above sea-level.

Of late years two other provinces have been formed by the disjunction of Maule, and the provinces of Cauquenes and Cunco are nominally added to the former number, but without any addition of territory.