Luis Gatica is comforted by longtime friend Carmen Gloria Vasquez in Constitucion. Gatica lost his wife and daughter and other family members in the tsunami after the 8.8 earthquake last month. The family was camping with relatives on Isla Orrego, a woodsy islet off Constitucion, in the mouth of the Maule River. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Sunday mass is held outside the damaged main cathedral in Constitucion, Chile. The names of those confirmed dead were read aloud. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Congregants mourn as the names of the dead are read at Sunday Mass outside Constitucion’s damaged cathedral. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
A crucifix is carried to a Sunday mass at a school in Constitucion, Chile, that is sheltering those left homeless by the earthquake and tsunami. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
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Daniella Calderon, 17, scaled a tree on Isla Cancun, a popular summer camping spot in the Maule River near Constitucion, Chile, to escape the massive tsunami waves. Calderon, four months pregnant, said she was only thinking of her baby as she watched the pounding waves. Three members of her family were killed. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Constitucion was devastated after the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami last month. But congregants gathered to hear Mass outside its ruined cathedral and to hear the names of the dead. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
