Queule is a Chilean town in the commune of Toltén in Cautín Province , Araucanía Region . It is located just north of Mehuín and close to the border of Araucanía Region with Los Ríos Region . Days after the 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami a police officer stationed in Queule reported hundreds of people from Quele to be dead or missing . Historians Yoselin Jaramillo and Ismael Basso report that people in Queule decades later know about 50 people to have died because of the earthquake and tsunami .
1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami
1960 Valdivia earthquake
Queule