Location: Caguach village, Caguach Island
Patron and main holiday: Jesus the Nazarene, august 30th and third Sunday of January.

The Caguach Church holds the most important religious holiday from the archipelago of Chiloé, Jesus the Nazarene. The celebration was established in 1778, when five neighboring island communities compromised to worship with special devotion the image of Jesus the Nazarene, made in Spain and taken to Caguach by the Franciscan missionary Fray Hilario Martínez. From that time, every August the 30th this massive religious celebration takes place. Since some years ago it has a second version every third Sunday of the year. This celebration maintains the old Colonial structure of council meetings, processions, bands, patrons and rituals such as flag games.

In 1919 a fire completely destroyed the old Church, but people got to save the image. In 1925 the five villages that had subscribed the compromise for this devotion, on a new proof of their union and piety, finished the building of the current temple, the third raised on Caguach.

It is built on wood from that area and shows ceilings totally covered by larch tiles. It has a porch made out of six simple square columns. Its main characteristic is the quadrangular tower, very rare on the Churches from that area.

It was declared Mankind's Heritage before the UNESCO in June 2001.

Sources: National Monuments Council, National Tourism Service (SERNATUR) and www.iglesiaschilotas.cl.