Commune of Lebu

This city is located to 91 Kilometers of Arauco, its you limit they are for the north Arauco; to the southeast The Poplars; to the east, Curanilahue, and to the west, the Ocean Pacific. It has an extension of 562,9 Km2 of surface and 25.035 inhabitants.

The commune of Lebu, provincial capital, has diverse attractions of tourist character, in its majority related with the mining activity, the coast and the marine gastronomy.


The most important economic activity until a couple of years ago it was the extraction of the black mineral that goes back by the middle of the XIX century, initiative developed then in those by Matías Rioseco Rivera and that later it would be renewed by Maximiliano Errázuriz and José Torres Urmeneta; at the present time, the company is low the administration of the National Company of the Coal CORP. (Enacar). Today in day Lebu has ended up becoming one of the main ports of handmade fishing of the country, ending up providing around 30% in the capture, to regional scale.

As arriving

From Concepción you 145 kms should travel. toward the south, to cross the bridge of the river Bío Bío and to take the Route 160 Lebu-Concepción, it will go by Colonel, Lota, Chivilingo, Laraquete until arriving to Carampangue from this continuous town the Route of the Araucanian for the interior until Curanilahuerecorre 24km. it arrives to The Poplars it rotates haciala coast (west) 26 km travels. and it arrives to Lebu.

From the Route 5, the alternative quicker vial is to arrive to Collipulli to take the route 182 that it goes to Angol. Once in Angol it should take the route R-86 to the town of The Sallows and then the route R-60-P that will leave it in Contulmo, it travels 53 km. toward the north until The Poplars tour toward the coast (west) and it travels 26km. and it arrives to the city of Lebu.