Infobox settlement
| official_name = Valdivia
| other_name =
| native_name =
| nickname = The City of Rivers, The Pearl of the South of Chile, Chile's Brewery Capital
| named_for = Pedro de Valdivia
| motto = Muy Noble y Muy Leal("Most noble and most loyal")
| settlement_type = City and Commune
| image_skyline = Montaje de Valdivia.png
| image_caption = From top to bottom, left to right: Valdivia waterfront, Town Square, Hotel Naguilán (top), Sciences Building of Austral University (bottom), Los Canelos tower, Rodolfo Amando Philippi Museum, Historical and Anthropologic Museum Maurice van de Maele, St. Francisco Church, Prochelle House, Dreams Hotel & Casino, Los Lotos Lagoon on Teja Island, Mapuche's Rewe, Botanical Garden of Valdivia.
| image_flag = Flag of Valdivia, Chile.svg
| flag_size =
| image_shield = Escudo de Valdivia.svg
| shield_size =
| image_map = Comuna de Valdivia.svg
| map_caption = Location of the Valdivia commune in Los Ríos Region
| map_alt = Location of the Valdivia commune in Los Ríos Region
| pushpin_map = Chile
| pushpin_map_narrow = yes
| pushpin_mapsize = 150
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Chile
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Chile
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = Los Ríos
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Valdivia
| government_footnotes =
| government_type = Municipality
| leader_title = Alcaldesa
| leader_party = RD
| leader_name = Carla Amtmann
| established_title = Founded as
| established_date = Santa María la Blanca de Valdivia
| established_title2 = Founded
| established_date2 = 9 February 1552
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes =
| area_total_km2 = 1015.
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Zona Sur (Southern Zone) is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950. Its northern border is formed by the Bío-Bío River, which separates it from the Central Chile Zone. The Southern Zone borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, and to the east lies the Andean mountains and Argentina. Its southern border is the Chacao Channel, which forms the boundary with the Austral Zone. While the Chiloé Archipelago belongs geographically to the Austral Zone in terms of culture and history, it lies closer to the Southern Zone.
The Valdivian temperate forests (NT0404) is an ecoregion on the west coast of southern South America, in Chile and Argentina. It is part of the Neotropical realm. The forests are named after the city of Valdivia. The Valdivian temperate rainforests are characterized by their dense understories of bamboos, ferns, and for being mostly dominated by evergreen angiosperm trees with some deciduous specimens, though conifer trees are also common.
Fitzroya is a monotypic genus in the cypress family. The single living species, Fitzroya cupressoides, is a tall, long-lived conifer native to the Andes mountains and coastal regions of southern Chile, and only to the Argentine Andes, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate forests. Common names include alerce ("larch" in Spanish), lahuán (Spanish, from the Mapuche name lawal), and Patagonian cypress. The genus was named in honour of Robert FitzRoy.