Economy

The county of Arauco centers its development in the proliferation of the productive activities related with the handmade fishing, the forest company, the industry silvoagropecuaria and especially the tourist one. It also has a special point the mining activity that although he/she has gone losing importance in the region, in the County Arauco the only 2 underground locations of coal still exist in exploitation, in the country. The coal is the mineral that for the most part is extracted in the area, representing the provincial quota around 46% of the national production.

In the agriculture, the county is characterized by the presence of peasants that habitually appeal to traditional they plant as potatoes and cereals; among these last ones it highlights the wheat, the oat and some leguminous ones. Equally a percentage not smaller, It practice the shepherding.

In the related with the extraction of products of the sea, the county along its coast has eight creeks of fishermen. Among those that Tubul highlights, Tip Lavapié and Lebu.
The forest environment is one of those most consolidated ones of the territory, because around 40% of the surface it is planted, I motivate for which companies of medium span like sawmills exist and others of more hierarchy that are devoted to produce cellulose and paper.
In the item of the tourism an increment has also been presented sustained in varied investments summoned in the riversides of the lakes and rivers, as well as in the coast of the county; which go from restaurants, hotels, cabins, rooms of meetings until a catamaran; infrastructure in general guided to the family segment.