A brief glimpse into the past

Team, Place & City Details

Tinguiririca San Fernando

Club Deportivo Tinguiririca San Fernando, commonly referred to as Tinguiririca SF, is a Chilean professional basketball club that is based in the city of San Fernando. They currently participate in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol.

Tinguiririca

Tinguiririca may refer to:

Tinguiririca Volcano
Tinguiririca Volcano

Tinguiririca Volcano is a massive and active stratovolcano located in Chile's VI Region and near the Argentinian border. Constant fumarolic activity occurs within and on the NW wall of its summit crater and hot springs and fumaroles can also be seen on the western flanks, as illustrated by the image on the right.

Tinguiririca, Chile

Tinguiririca is a Chilean town in the commune of Chimbarongo in Colchagua Province, O'Higgins Region.

Tinguiririca fauna

The fossil Tinguiririca fauna, entombed in volcanic mudflows and ash layers at the onset of the Oligocene, about 33-31.5 million years ago, represents a unique snapshot of the history of South America's endemic fauna, which was extinguished when the former island continent was joined to North America by the rising Isthmus of Panama. The fossil-bearing sedimentary layers of the Abanico Formation were first discovered in the valley of the Tinguiririca River, high in the Andes of central Chile.

Tinguiririca River
Tinguiririca River

Tinguiririca River is a river of Chile located in the Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region. It rises in the Andes, at the confluence of the rivers Las Damas and Del Azufre.

Tinguirirican

The Tinguirirican age is a period of geologic time (36.0–29.0 Ma) within the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene epochs of the Paleogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America. It follows the Divisaderan and precedes the Deseadan age.