El Cuero reports in Chilean and Argentine Patagonia

Record summary

El Cuero is a South American aquatic monster tradition, especially associated with Chilean and Argentine lakes and rivers. It is often described as a hide-like, flattened creature with grasping appendages, though modern accounts vary and may recast it as a large unknown animal. Recent folklore writing, local media, and cryptid discussions provide identifiable routes for tracking continuing reports and their relationship to Mapuche and broader colonial traditions. The uncertainty involves substantial regional variation and the frequent absence of independently dated, first-person documentation.