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{{Short description|Mountain range in Chile}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Valdivian Coast Range<br/>''Cordillera de Mahuidanchi''
| photo = Oncolvista.jpg
| photo_caption = View from [[Cerro Oncol]]
| country = Chile
| region = [[Los Ríos Region]]
| parent= [[Chilean Coast Range]] (''Cordillera de la Costa'')
| range_coordinates = {{coord|40|04|S|73|25|W|type:mountain_region:CL_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| highest = [[Cerro Oncol]]
| elevation_m= 715
| coordinates = 
| length = | length_orientation = north-south
| width = | width_orientation = North-South
| area = 
| geology = |period= [[Carboniferous]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=h4DBQR9jDsoC&dq=edad%22cordillera+de+la+costa%22+chile+geologia&pg=PA364 The Geology of Chile]</ref> | orogeny= [[Toco orogeny|Toco]]
| map_image=SRTM-W73.75E71.33S40.00N39.00.Valdivia.png
| map_caption=Map showing the Valdivian Coast Range (''Cordillera de Mahuidanchi'') in the west. 
}}
The '''Cordillera de Oncol''' (sometimes called '''Valdivian Coast Range''') is a [[mountain range]], located along the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] coast in southern [[Chile]]. It is part of the [[Chilean Coast Range]] System (''Cordillera de la Costa''). It was named for the city of [[Valdivia, Chile|Valdivia]]. The highest point of the range is [[Cerro Oncol]], at 715 m.

==Natural history==
The Valdivian Coastal Range has about 1 million acres (4,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of [[Valdivian temperate rain forests]] habitat, approximately one-quarter of which are protected.

The region has long been geographically isolated, making it a haven for [[endemism|endemic]] species. Some of the rare species that inhabit the Valdivian Coastal Range include the [[pudu]] (the smallest deer in the world), the [[common degu]], the [[marine otter]], and the [[monito del monte]], or mountain monkey (actually a [[marsupial]]).

==See also==
*[[Chilean Coast Range]]
*[[Cruces River]]
*[[Punucapa]]
*[[Valdivia (city)|Valdivia]]
*[[Valdivian Coastal Reserve]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100702214045/http://www.nature.org/wherewework/southamerica/chile/work/art5116.html Conservation efforts in the Valdivian Coastal Range]

[[Category:Mountain ranges of Chile]]
[[Category:Chilean Coast Range]]
[[Category:Landforms of Los Ríos Region]]
[[Category:Valdivian temperate forests]]