Canelo: sweet-smelling small tree (Central Chile), the “South American cinnamon.”
Capacho: bag used for carrying ore, made of hide.
Capataz: foreman of workers.
Carbonado: a Chilean soup.
Cardón: applied to various thistles and especially to the big blue-flowered Cynara cardunculus, growing through Central and South Chile, but the term is also used for many spiny plants and leaves, for the wild artichoke and the thorny leaves of the Puya.
Cateo: the search for a mine.
Cazuela: thick stew, made with chicken, rice, potatos, aji, etc.
Chacolí: country wine, lightly fermented.
Chacra: a small cultivated plot of land.
Chagual: applied generally to Puya chilensis or Puya coarctata, growing freely from the sea-border to Andean slopes in all Central Chile: the tall spike of blue, or in other varieties yellow flowers is the “chagual,” while the spiny leaf is called “cardón” and the big thorns used as knitting-needles; the flowers are gathered for their honey.