Chilean dolphin
Cephalorhynchus eutropia
A small dolphin that stays within a few hundred metres of the shore and near river mouths. The Puyuhuapi Channel holds a small resident population, estimated at fewer than one hundred animals: 42 adults in the upper channel and 55 between Puerto Cisnes and Magdalena Island. It is seen regularly in summer.
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More species from the same habitat
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- Southern river otterLontra provocaxHuillínabove the surfaceEndangered in Chile (MMA 2011)
- Marine otterLontra felinaChungungoabove the surface
- Killer whaleOrcinus orcaOrcaabove the surface
- South American sea lionOtaria byroniaLobo marino comúnabove the surface