Universidad de La Frontera | |
Motto | Itinerarium mentis ad veritatem |
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Established | 1981 |
Students | 11,053 (2020) |
Undergraduates | 10,427 |
Postgraduates | 626 |
Location | 38°44′51″S 72°37′04″W / 38.7474°S 72.6177°W |
Campus | Andres Bello Campus, Medicine Campus |
Affiliations |
Consejo de Rectores de las Universidades Chilenas Consorcio de Universidades Estatales de Chile |
Website | www.ufro.cl |
University of the Frontier ( Spanish: Universidad de La Frontera) or UFRO is a public university in Temuco, Araucanía Region, Chile. It is a derivative university and part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. UFRO boasts a student body with a variety of abilities and from a variety of backgrounds, many of them are Mapuche descent.
The university owns a property called Rucamanque, that is used for research, environmental education, and conservation. Rucamanque holds old-growth and second-growth forest.