 The first hotel in Pucón was the Gudenschwager, established in 1923, but it was in 1934 with the establishment of Gran Hotel Pucón that tourism became a popular activity in the area.In 1940 the first road between Villarrica and Pucón was built and in the 1970s the road to Caburgua Lake was finished.According to the 2002 census carried out by the Chilean National Statistics Institute, Pucón spans an area of and has 21,107 inhabitants (10,705 men and 10,402 women).