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The Name, “Paine.” The Paine peaks of Patagonia did not receive their name from some wandering Gringo. (The name is pronounced “pine-eh.”) The name originated around 1886 when an Argentine trav - eler, trekking into southernmost Chile, saw the peak and christened it Paine because the Chilean massif has three peaks looking very much like an Argentine massif called “Paine” which was of religious importance to the Huilliches, an Argentine branch of the Araucanians of Chile. The word means “sky-blue.” The Argentine writer Estanislao Zeballos has written novels about those Indians. One refers to a princess of the Paine. E velio E chevarría
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The Name, “Paine.” The Paine peaks of Patagonia did not receive their name from some wandering Gringo. (The name is pronounced “pine-eh.” ) The name originated around 1886 when an Argentine traveler, trekking into southernmost Chile, saw the peak and christened it Paine because the Chilean massif has three peaks looking very much like an Argentine massif called “Paine” which was of religious importance to the Huilliches, an Argentine branch of the Araucanians of Chile. The word means “sky-blue.” The Argentine writer Estanislao Zeballos has written novels about those Indians. One refers to a princess of the Paine.
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