The finding of Cyclospora cayetanensis in a stool sample from a 50 year old Chilean female patient is reported. The patient had recently returned from a visit to Cuba and exhibited diarrhoeal symptons in the fifth day after arriving to Chile. The stool sample was obtained 30 days after her return to the country. Direct microscopic abservation were made in preparations of the stool sample preserved in phenol, alcohol, fonmalin (PAF) with iodine, merthiolate, iodine-fonmalin (MIF) and iodine de D'Antoni. In addition, three smears of the faecal sedimenl were stained with madified Ziehl-Neelsen, Kinyou, and Safranin. The oocyst sizes were measured. The identification of C. cayetanensis was confinmed in this sample by the Center for Disease control and Prevention from Atlanta, Georgia. USA and by the Department of Parasitology, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London. UK this report constitutes the finding of C. cayetanensis in Concepción, Chile