The wind in Patagonia is strong and turns up unexpectedly. When it does, it can stir up a wave front on a calm lake like the one shown in the video below (online).
The video posted on Instagram was jokingly titled "Mounstro del lago Panguipulli" (Lake Panguipulli Monster), and all the comments joke about it being waves, a wave front, kurruf, which is the Mapuche word for wind.
The lake is set at low altitde (140 m - 460 ft.), and is almost 30 km long (18.50 mi.), its maximum widht is almost 15 km (9.2 mi.) it covers an area of 117 km2 (45 sq.mi.) and reaches a depth of nearly 270 m (880 ft.), its name means "Land of pumas".
Just waves. No monster.
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