Catiray

Catiray or Catirai is part of the Santa Juana commune of the Concepcion Province of the Bío-Bío Region, of Chile. It includes the eastern slope of the mountains of the Nahuelbuta Range in its northern extremity where they decend toward the town of Santa Juana, and that contains the sources of the gorges and of streams that flow into the Culenco River, tributary of the Tavolevo River. Catiray is also the name used for a portion of the opposite slope of that mountain range. Catiray comes from the Mapudungun callyíi, to cut, and of raigheii, the flower of the trees, meaning short flowers.

Source

• Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile (Geographic dictionary of the Republic of Chile), SEGUNDA EDICIÓN CORREGIDA Y AUMENTADA, NUEVA YORK, D. APPLETON Y COMPAÑÍA, 1899. pg. 135