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- 1818 establishments in Chile
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- Countries in South America
- G15 nations
- OECD members
- Spanish-speaking countries and territories
- States and territories established in 1818
Aconcagua River
The Aconcagua River is a river in Chile that rises from the conflux of two minor tributary rivers at above sea level in the Andes, Juncal River from the east (which rise in the Nevado Juncal) and Blanco River from the south east.
Adventism
Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ.
Agrarian reform
Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land (see land reform) or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land reform measures.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Agustín de Jáuregui
Agustín de Jáuregui y Aldecoa (17 May 1708/1711 – 29 April 1784) was a Spanish politician and soldier who served as governor of Chile (1772–80) and viceroy of Peru (1780–84).
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Airline
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and/or freight.
Alberto Hurtado
Alberto Hurtado (born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga on January 22, 1901 in Viña del Mar, Chile – August 18, 1952 in Santiago, Chile), popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado (Spanish for "Father Hurtado"), was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer, of Basque ancestry.
All Saints' Day
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Church, whether they are known or unknown.
Alliance (Chile)
The Alliance (Alianza), previously known as Alliance for Chile (Alianza por Chile), is a coalition of centre-right to right-wing Chilean political parties.
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Alpine tundra
Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
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Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport
Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport is an airport serving Antofagasta, capital of the Antofagasta Region of Chile.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Anita Lizana
Anita Lizana de Ellis (19 November 1915 – 21 August 1994) was a world No.
Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Antofagasta
Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.
Antofagasta Region
The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's sixteen first-order administrative divisions.
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Apple
An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus spp.'', among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica).
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Apruebo Dignidad
(in English, Approve Dignity, AD) was a democratic socialist Chilean electoral coalition officially created on 11 January 2021, by the Broad Front and Chile Digno in preparation for the Constitutional Convention election.
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Araucanía Region
The Araucanía, La Araucanía Region (Región de La Araucanía) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions, and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south.
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Araucaria araucana
Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, piñonero, pewen or Chilean pine, is an evergreen tree growing to a trunk diameter of and a height of.
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Arauco War
The Arauco War was a long-running conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people, mostly fought in the Araucanía region of Chile.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. Chile and Argentina are countries in South America, former Spanish colonies, G15 nations, member states of the United Nations, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Argentine War of Independence
The Argentine War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de Argentina) was a secessionist civil war fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli, Martin Miguel de Guemes and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown.
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Argentine–Chilean naval arms race
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the South American nations of Argentina and Chile engaged in an expensive naval arms race to ensure the other would not gain supremacy in the Southern Cone.
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Arica
Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 222,619 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region.
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Arica y Parinacota Region
The Arica y Parinacota Region (Región de Arica y Parinacota) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
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Army general
Army general is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System.
Army of the Andes
The Army of the Andes (Ejército de los Andes) was a military force created by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Argentina) and mustered by general José de San Martín in his campaign to free Chile from the Spanish Empire.
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Arturo Alessandri
Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma (December 20, 1868 – August 24, 1950) was a Chilean political figure and reformer who served thrice as president of Chile, first from 1920 to 1924, then from March to October 1925, and finally from 1932 to 1938.
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Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport
Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, also known as Santiago International Airport and Nuevo Pudahuel Airport, located in Pudahuel, north-west of central Santiago, is Chile's largest aviation facility and busiest international airport.
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Asado
Asado is the technique and the social event of having or attending a barbecue in various South American countries: especially Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay where it is also a traditional event.
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Asparagus
Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus native to Eurasia.
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.
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Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.
Atacama Desert border dispute
The Atacama Desert border dispute was a dispute between Bolivia and Chile from 1825 to 1879 for the territories of the Atacama Coast due to the different views of both countries of the territory inherited from the Spanish Empire.
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Atacama Region
The Atacama Region (Región de Atacama) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
Atamu Tekena
Atamu Tekena or Atamu te Kena, full name Atamu Maurata Te Kena ʻAo Tahi (c. 1850 – August 1892) was the penultimate ‘Ariki or King of Rapa Nui (i.e. Easter Island) from 1883 until his death.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
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Aymara language
Aymara (also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes.
Aysén Region
The Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region (Región de Aysén,, Región de Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo), often shortened to Aysén Region or Aisén,Examples of name usage:, official regional government site refers to the region as "Región de Aysén".
Ñuble Region
The Ñuble Region (Región de Ñuble) officially the Region of Ñuble (Región de Ñuble), is — since 5 September 2018 – one of Chile's sixteen regions.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Baháʼí House of Worship
A Baháʼí House of Worship or Baháʼí temple is a place of worship of the Baháʼí Faith.
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Baltimore crisis
The Baltimore crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States, after the 1891 Chilean Civil War, as a result of the growing American influence in the Pacific Coast region of Latin America in the 1890s.
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Baptists
Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Basque Chileans
Many Basques arrived in Chile in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century from their homeland in northern Spain (see Basque Provinces) and parts of southwestern France, as conquistadors, soldiers, sailors, merchants, priests and labourers.
Battle of the Maule
The Battle of the Maule (in Mapudungun: Mawlen Weichantun, in Quechua: Mawlli Ch'iraqi) was fought between a coalition of Mapuche people of Chile and the Inca Empire of Peru.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bean
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
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Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (Bos taurus).
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Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
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Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (20 August 1778 – 24 October 1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence.
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Bicameralism
Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.
Binomial voting
The binomial system (Sistema binominal) is a voting system that was used in the legislative elections of Chile between 1989 and 2013.
Biobío Region
The Biobío Region (Región del Biobío) is one of Chile's sixteen regions (first-order administrative divisions).
Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
Blueberry
Blueberry is a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plant with blue or purple berries.
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. Chile and Bolivia are countries in South America, former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina
The Boundary Treaty of 1881 (Tratado de Límites de 1881) between Argentina and Chile was signed on 23 July 1881 in Buenos Aires by Bernardo de Irigoyen, for Argentina, and Francisco de Borja Echeverría, for Chile, with the aim of establishing a precise border between the two countries based on the uti possidetis juris principle.
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.
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Broad Front (Chilean political coalition)
The Broad Front (Frente Amplio, FA) was a Chilean political coalition founded in early 2017, composed of left-wing parties and movements.
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Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
In the United States government, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) is a part of the U.S. Department of State, charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy and promoting U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere, as well as advising the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
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Cacique
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places.
Caldera, Chile
Caldera is a port city and commune in the Copiapó Province of the Atacama Region in northern Chile.
Callao
Callao is a Peruvian seaside city and region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area.
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Campanula
Campanula is the type genus of the Campanulaceae family of flowering plants.
Capital flight
Capital flight, in economics, occurs when assets or money rapidly flow out of a country, due to an event of economic consequence or as the result of a political event such as regime change or economic globalization.
Carabineros de Chile
The italic (Carabiniers of Chile) are the Chilean national law enforcement gendarmerie, who have jurisdiction over the entire national territory of the Republic of Chile.
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Caravan of Death
The Caravan of Death (Caravana de la Muerte) was a Chilean Army death squad that, following the Chilean coup of 1973, flew by helicopters from south to north of Chile between September 30 and October 22, 1973.
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Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (3 November 1877 – 28 April 1960) was a Chilean Army officer and political figure.
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Carlos Pezoa Véliz
Carlos Pezoa Véliz (July 21, 1879 – April 21, 1908) was a poet, educator and journalist from Chile.
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Carriel Sur International Airport
Carriel Sur International Airport is located in Talcahuano, Greater Concepción in the Bío Bío Region, 8 km (5 mi) from Concepción downtown.
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Casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.
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Casma River
The Casma River, which upstream is called Río Grande, is a river that crosses northern Casma province in the Ancash Region of Peru.
Castile (historical region)
Castile or Castille is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cazuela
Cazuela is the common name given to a variety of dishes, especially from South America.
Central bank
A central bank, reserve bank, national bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union.
Central Bank of Chile
The Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile) is the central bank of Chile.
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Central Chile
Central Chile (Zona central) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Centre-left politics
Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre and broadly conform with progressivism.
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Centre-right politics
Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre.
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Chacalluta International Airport
Chacalluta International Airport (Aeródromo de Chacalluta Arica) is an airport serving the city of Arica, capital of the Arica Province in the northern Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile.
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Chamber of Deputies of Chile
The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados) is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress.
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Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
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Cherry
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
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Chile Davis Cup team
The Chile men's national tennis team represents Chile in Davis Cup tennis tournament and is governed by Federación de tenis de Chile.
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Chile Digno
italics (Spanish for "Worthy Chile") is a Chilean political coalition of left-wing parties with a Marxist–Leninist, ecologist, regionalist and humanist ideology.
Chile national football team
The Chile national football team (Selección de fútbol de Chile), nicknamed La Roja, represents Chile in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895.
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Chile Route 5
Chile Highway 5 or Route 5 known locally as Ruta 5 is Chile's longest route,.
Chile Vamos
Chile Vamos (Spanish for "Let's go Chile") is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile.
Chilean Air Force
The Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACh) is the air force of Chile and branch of the Chilean military.
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Chilean Antarctic Territory
The Chilean Antarctic Territory, or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena), is a part of West Antarctica and nearby islands claimed by Chile.
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Chilean Army
The Chilean Army (Ejército de Chile) is the land arm of the Chilean Armed Forces.
Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830
The Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830 (Guerra Civil de 1829–1830) was a civil war in Chile fought between conservative Pelucones and liberal Pipiolos forces over the constitutional regime in force.
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Chilean Civil War of 1891
The Chilean Civil War of 1891 (also known as Revolution of 1891) was a civil war in Chile fought between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the President, José Manuel Balmaceda from 16 January 1891 to 18 September 1891.
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Chilean Coast Range
The Chilean Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa) is a mountain range that runs from north to south along the Pacific coast of South America parallel to the Andean Mountains, extending from Morro de Arica in the north to Taitao Peninsula, where it ends at the Chile Triple Junction, in the south.
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Chilean Constitution of 1833
The Constitution of 1833 was the constitution used in Chile from 1833 to 1925 when it was replaced by the Constitution of 1925.
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Chilean Constitution of 1980
The Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile of 1980 is the fundamental law in force in Chile.
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Chilean cuisine
Chilean cuisine stems mainly from the combination of traditional Spanish cuisine, Chilean Mapuche culture and local ingredients, with later important influences from other European cuisines, particularly from Germany, the United Kingdom and France.
Chilean Declaration of Independence
The Chilean Declaration of Independence is a document declaring the independence of Chile from the Spanish Empire.
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Chilean football league system
The Chilean football league system, called the Campeonatos Nacionales de Fútbol en Chile or Liga Chilena de Fútbol in Spanish, is a series of interconnected leagues for football clubs in Chile.
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Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts
The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes or MNBA), located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art.
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Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces.
Chilean peso
The peso is the currency of Chile.
Chilean Primera División
The Chilean Primera División (First Division of Chile) is a professional football league, being the highest division of Chilean football league system.
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Chilean rodeo
Rodeo is a traditional equestrian sport in Chile, declared the national sport in 1962.
Chilean schooner Ancud (1843)
The schooner Ancud was the ship sent by Chile in 1843 to claim sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan and establish Fuerte Bulnes, the first Chilean settlement in the strait.
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Chilean Sign Language
Chilean Sign Language (LSCh) is the sign language of Chile's seven deaf institutions.
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Chilean Spanish
Chilean Spanish (español chileno or castellano chileno) is any of several varieties of the Spanish language spoken in most of Chile.
Chilean takeover of the Strait of Magellan
The Chilean takeover of the Strait of Magellan began in 1843 when an expedition founded Fuerte Bulnes.
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Chilean Traditional Universities
In Chile, universidades tradicionales ("traditional universities") refer to universities founded before the 1980s.
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Chilean War of Independence
The Chilean War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de la Independencia de Chile, 'War of Independence of Chile') was a military and political event that allowed the emancipation of Chile from the Spanish Monarchy, ending the colonial period and initiating the formation of an independent republic.
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Chileans
Chileans (Chilenos) are an ethnic group and nation native to the country of Chile and its neighboring insular territories.
Chile–Philippines relations
Chile–Philippines relations are the interstate and bilateral relations between Chile and the Philippines.
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Chillán
Chillán is the capital city of Ñuble Region, Diguillín Province, Chile, located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the center of the country.
Chiloé Archipelago
The Chiloé Archipelago (Archipiélago de Chiloé) is a group of islands lying off the coast of Chile, in the Los Lagos Region.
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Chiloé Island
Chiloé Island (Isla de Chiloé) also known as Greater Island of Chiloé (Isla Grande de Chiloé), is the largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago off the west coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean.
Chiloé Province
Chiloé Province (Provincia de Chiloé) is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos (X).
Chilote mythology
The Chilote mythology or Chilota mythology is formed by the myths, legends and beliefs of the people who live in the Chiloé Archipelago, in the south of Chile.
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Chonos Archipelago
The Chonos Archipelago is a series of low, mountainous, elongated islands with deep bays, traces of a submerged Chilean Coast Range.
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Christian Democratic Party (Chile)
The Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in Chile.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Chungará Lake
Chungará is a lake situated in the extreme north of Chile at an elevation of, in the Altiplano of Arica y Parinacota Region in the Lauca National Park.
Churches of Chiloé
The Churches of Chiloé in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago are a unique architectural phenomenon in the Americas and one of the most prominent styles of Chilotan architecture.
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Civil resistance
Civil resistance is a form of political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Climate of Chile
The climate of Chile comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale, extending across 38 degrees in latitude, making generalizations difficult.
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Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, known as Universidad Católica, is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile.
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Club Universidad de Chile
Club Universidad de Chile is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, that plays in the Primera División.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
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Coastal plain
A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.
Coat of arms of Chile
The coat of arms of Chile dates from 1834 and was designed by the English artist Charles Wood Taylor (1792–1856).
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Codelco
The National Copper Corporation of Chile (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile), abbreviated as Codelco, is a Chilean state-owned copper mining company.
Colina, Chile
Colina is a Chilean city and commune, capital of the Chacabuco Province, in the northern part of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, approximately 30 kilometers north of Santiago Centro.
Colo-Colo
Colo-Colo, officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. Chile and Colombia are countries in South America, former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations, OECD members, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Communes of Chile
A commune (comuna) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.
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Communist Party of Chile
The Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile, italics) is a communist party in Chile.
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Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states proposed on February 23, 2010, at the Rio Group–Caribbean Community Unity Summit, and created on December 3, 2011, in Caracas, Venezuela, with the signing of the Declaration of Caracas.
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Competition (economics)
In economics, competition is a scenario where different economic firmsThis article follows the general economic convention of referring to all actors as firms; examples in include individuals and brands or divisions within the same (legal) firm.
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Computer security
Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from threats that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of (or damage to) hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.
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Concepción, Chile
Concepción (originally: Concepción de la Madre Santísima de la Luz, "Conception of the Blessed Mother of Light") is a city and commune in south-central Chile, and the geographical and demographic core of the Greater Concepción metropolitan area, one of the three major conurbations in the country.
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Concertación
The Concertación, officially the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia (Coalition of Parties for Democracy), was a coalition of center-left political parties in Chile, founded in 1988.
Condor
Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus.
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Conguillío National Park
Conguillío National Park is in the Andes, in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, in the Araucanía Region of Chile also known as Region IX.
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Conquest of Chile
The Conquest of Chile is a period in Chilean historiography that starts with the arrival of Pedro de Valdivia to Chile in 1541 and ends with the death of Martín García Óñez de Loyola in the Battle of Curalaba in 1598, and the destruction of the Seven Cities in 1598–1604 in the Araucanía region.
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Conquistador
Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.
Constituent Unity
Constituent Unity (Unidad Constituyente, UC) was a political alliance in Chile.
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Constitutional Convention (Chile)
The Constitutional Convention was the constituent body of the Republic of Chile in charge of drafting a new Political Constitution of the Republic after the approval of the national plebiscite held in October 2020.
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Constitutional Council (Chile)
The Constitutional Council in Chile was tasked to draft a new constitution in 2023, submitted to referendum on 17 December 2023.
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Copa América
The CONMEBOL Copa América (Americas Cup; known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship), often simply called the Copa America, is the top men's quadrennial football tournament contested among national teams from South America.
Copa América Centenario
The Copa América Centenario (Copa América Centenário, Coupe Amérique Centennaire, Centennial Cup America; literally Centennial America Cup) was an international men's soccer tournament that was hosted by the United States in 2016.
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Copa Libertadores
The Copa Libertadores de América (Copa/Taça Libertadores da América, officially known as the CONMEBOL Libertadores) is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960.
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Copa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, also known as the Copa Sudamericana (Copa Sul-Americana), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL, the governing body of football in South America, since 2002.
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Copiapó
Copiapó is a city and commune in northern Chile, located about 65 kilometers east of the coastal town of Caldera.
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Copper extraction
Copper extraction refers to the methods used to obtain copper from its ores.
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Coquimbo
Coquimbo is a port city, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.
Coquimbo Region
The Coquimbo Region (Región de Coquimbo) is one of Chile's 16 regions (first order administrative divisions).
Cordillera de Nahuelbuta
The Nahuelbuta Range or Cordillera de Nahuelbuta is a mountain range in Bio-Bio and Araucania Region, southern Chile.
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Cost of living
The cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living for an individual or a household.
Cougar
The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 severely affected Chile.
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Coyhaique
Coyhaique, also spelled Coihaique in Patagonia, is the capital city of both the Coyhaique Province and the Aysén Region of Chile.
Credit rating
A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting.
Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. Chile and Croatia are member states of the United Nations and republics.
Crossing of the Andes
The Crossing of the Andes (Cruce de los Andes) was one of the most important feats in the Argentine and Chilean wars of independence, in which a combined army of Argentine soldiers and Chilean exiles invaded Chile crossing the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, leading to Chile's liberation from Spanish rule.
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Crudo alemán
A crudo alemán or bistec alemán ("raw German" or "German beefsteak") is a typical German-Chilean dish similar to a steak tartare.
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island. Chile and Cuba are former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Cueca
Cueca is a family of musical styles and associated dances from Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia.
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Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument
Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is a Natural Monument located in the Chilean Patagonia, northwest of Puerto Natales and north of Punta Arenas.
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Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.
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Culture of Chile
The culture of Chile reflects the population and the geographic isolation of the country in relation to the rest of South America.
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Curanto
Curanto (from kurantu 'stony') is a traditional Chilote method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in an earth oven that is covered with pangue leaves and turf.
Current account (balance of payments)
In macroeconomics and international finance, a country's current account records the value of exports and imports of both goods and services and international transfers of capital.
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D'Hondt method
The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties.
Dakar Rally
The Dakar Rally or simply "The Dakar" (French: Le Rallye Dakar ou Le Dakar), formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally" (French: Le Rallye Paris-Dakar), is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation.
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis.
De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
De jure
In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
Democratic Socialism (Chile)
Democratic Socialism (Socialismo Democrático, SD) is a Chilean centre-left political coalition established on 2021, by the Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, Radical Party, Liberal Party and the platform New Deal.
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Democratization
Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
Desventuradas Islands
The Desventuradas Islands (Islas Desventuradas,, "Unfortunate Islands" or Islas de los Desventurados, "Islands of the Unfortunate Ones") is a group of four small oceanic islands located off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean.
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Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
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Diego Aracena International Airport
Diego Aracena International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Diego Aracena) is an airport serving Iquique, capital of the Tarapacá Region in Chile.
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Diego de Almagro
Diego de Almagro (– July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits in western South America.
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Diego de Rosales
Diego de Rosales (Madrid, 1601 - Santiago, 1677) was a Spanish chronicler and author of Historia General del Reino de Chile.
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Diego Portales
Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos (June 16, 1793 – June 6, 1837) was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur.
Diego Portales University
Diego Portales University (Universidad Diego Portales, UDP) is one of the first private universities founded in Chile and is named after the Chilean statesman Diego Portales.
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Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Rainsford Tompkins (March 20, 1943 – December 8, 2015) was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist.
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Drake Passage
The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Drosophilidae
The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies.
Dual carriageway
A dual carriageway (BrE) or a divided highway (AmE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE).
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Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute
The East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute or the Patagonia Question was the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile during the 19th century for the possession of the southernmost territories of South America on the basis of disagreements over the boundaries corresponding to the uti possidetis juris inherited from the Spanish Empire.
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Easter Island
Easter Island (Isla de Pascua; Rapa Nui) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Economic depression
An economic depression is a period of carried long-term economic downturn that is the result of lowered economic activity in one major or more national economies.
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Economic freedom
Economic freedom, or economic liberty, refers to the agency of people to make economic decisions.
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Economic inequality
Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).
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Economy of Chile
The economy of Chile is a market economy and high-income economy as ranked by the World Bank.
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Editorial Universitaria
Editorial Universitaria is Chilean university press based in Santiago.
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Eduardo Frei Montalva
Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva (16 January 1911 – 22 January 1982) was a Chilean political leader.
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Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz–Tagle (born 24 June 1942) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who served as president of Chile from 1994 to 2000.
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El Tepual International Airport
El Tepual International Airport is a commercial and private aviation facility which serves the tourist area of Puerto Montt, Chile.
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Empanada
An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Spain, other Southern European countries, Latin American countries, and the Philippines.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.
Enel Generación Chile
Enel Generación Chile S.A., formerly known as Endesa Chile and Empresa Nacional de Electricidad, is the largest electric utility company in Chile.
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English Opens Doors
The English Opens Doors Program (Spanish language: Programa Inglés Abre Puertas) is an initiative of the Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) to apply technical expertise and improve English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, making it more accessible to Chilean people.
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Equestrian events at the Summer Olympics
Equestrian sports were first included in the Olympic Games in the Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris.
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Escondida
Escondida is a copper mine at elevation in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile.
Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
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European emigration
European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents.
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Evópoli
Political Evolution, also known in Spanish by its shorthand Evópoli, is a Chilean centre-right political party, founded in 2012.
Externality
In economics, an externality or external cost is an indirect cost or benefit to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity.
Faja Maisan
Faja Maisan is a coastal town located in the Chilean commune of Pitrufquén, Araucanía Region.
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a liturgical feast in honor of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which is observed on 29 June.
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Feast of the Immaculate Conception
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8 December, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary on 8 September.
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history.
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Ferdinand VII
Ferdinand VII (Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century.
Fernando González
Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi (born 29 July 1980) is a Chilean former professional tennis player.
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FIBA Basketball World Cup
The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an international basketball competition between the senior men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body.
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FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup
The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, also known as the Basketball World Cup for Women or simply the FIBA Women's World Cup, is an international basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially.
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Fiestas Patrias (Chile)
The Fiestas Patrias (literally Homeland Holidays) of Chile consist of two days, with a third one added on some years.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
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Flag carrier
A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations.
Flag of Chile
The flag of Chile consists of two equal-height horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center.
Flag of Texas
The Lone Star Flag is the official flag of the U.S. state of Texas.
Flag of the United States
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
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Fodor's
Fodor's is a producer of English-language travel guides and online tourism information.
Fondo Nacional de Salud
Fondo Nacional de Salud, also known as FONASA, is the financial entity entrusted to collect, manage and distribute state funds for health in Chile.
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Foreign exchange market
The foreign exchange market (forex, FX (pronounced "fix"), or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies.
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Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
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Forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.
Fragile States Index
The Fragile States Index (FSI; formerly the Failed States Index) is an annual report mainly published and supported by the United States think tank the Fund for Peace.
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Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos (– 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
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Free trade agreement
A free trade agreement (FTA) or treaty is an agreement according to international law to form a free-trade area between the cooperating states.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
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Frutillar
Frutillar is a city and commune located in southern Chile, Chilean Patagonia, in Llanquihue Province, within the Los Lagos Region, the lake district.
Fuel gas
Fuel gas is one of a number of fuels that under ordinary conditions are gaseous.
Fuel oil
Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).
Fuerte Bulnes
Fuerte Bulnes is a Chilean fort located by the Strait of Magellan, 62 km south of Punta Arenas.
Gabriel Boric
Gabriel Boric Font (born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean politician serving as the president of Chile since 11 March 2022.
Gabriel Salazar
Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is a Chilean historian.
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic.
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Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator west of the mainland of South America.
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Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium.
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Garrison
A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it.
Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
German colonization of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue
From 1850 to 1875, some 30,000 German immigrants settled in the region around Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue in Southern Chile as part of a state-led colonization scheme.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness.
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Globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
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Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Gonzalo Rojas
Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro (December 20, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was a Chilean poet.
Good Friday
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.
Government Junta of Chile (1810)
The First Government Junta of Chile, officially the Provisional Government Junta of the Kingdom in the name of Ferdinand VII, was the organization established to rule post-colonial Chile following the deposition and imprisonment of King Ferdinand VII of Spain by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year.
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Grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
Greater Concepción
Gran Concepción is the third largest conurbation in Chile, after Greater Santiago and Greater Valparaíso, with 945,650 inhabitants according to the 2012 pre census.
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Greater Valparaíso
Greater Valparaíso (Gran Valparaíso) is the third largest metropolitan area in Chile, after the Greater Concepción and Greater Santiago.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guanaco
The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama.
Guayaquil
Guayaquil (Wayakil), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. Chile and Haiti are former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations and republics.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University.
Hazelnut
The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus Corylus, especially the nuts of the species Corylus avellana.
Hemp
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a plant in the botanical class of Cannabis sativa cultivars grown specifically for industrial and consumable use.
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Hernán Büchi
Hernán Alberto Büchi Buc (born March 6, 1949) is a Chilean economist who served as minister of finance of the Pinochet government.
Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
Hippocamelus
Hippocamelus is a genus of Cervidae, the deer family.
Hockey
Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium.
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Holding company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.
HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet
Human rights abuses in Chile under Augusto Pinochet were the crimes against humanity, persecution of opponents, political repression, and state terrorism committed by the Chilean Armed Forces, members of Carabineros de Chile and civil repressive agents members of a secret police, during the military dictatorship of Chile under General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.
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Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile.
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Humita
Huminta (from Quechua umint'a), Huma (from Quechua possibly uma head) or Humita (possibly employing the Spanish diminutive -ita) is a Native South American dish that dates back to pre-Hispanic times.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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IFFHS
The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) is an organisation that chronicles the history and records of association football.
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Illapel
Illapel is a Chilean city, which is the capital of the Choapa Province, Coquimbo Region.
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
Incas in Central Chile
Inca rule in Chile was brief, it lasted from the 1470s to the 1530s when the Inca Empire was absorbed by Spain.
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Independent Democratic Union
The Independent Democratic Union (Unión Demócrata Independiente, UDI) is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1983.
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Independent politician
An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.
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Index of Chile-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Republic of Chile.
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Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169.
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International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)French: Union Internationale des Télécommunications is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies.
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Inti-Illimani
Inti-Illimani (from Quechuan Inti and Aymara Illimani) are an instrumental and vocal Latin American folk music ensemble from Chile.
Iodine
Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53.
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Iquique
Iquique is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region.
Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.
Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Isabel Allende
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer.
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (English: Big Island of the Land of Fire) also formerly Isla de Xátiva is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan.
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Isla Negra
Isla Negra is a coastal area in El Quisco commune in central Chile, some 45 km (70 km by road) south of Valparaiso and 96 km (110 km by road) west of Santiago.
Isla Salas y Gómez
Isla Salas y Gómez, also known as Isla Sala y Gómez (Motu Motiro Hiva), is a small uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean.
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Ivonne Coñuecar
Ivonne Coñuecar (born September 26, 1980) is a Mapuche writer, poet and journalist from Coyhaique, Chile.
Jaime Guzmán
Jaime Jorge Guzmán Errázuriz (June 28, 1946 – April 1, 1991) was a Chilean constitutional law professor, politician, and founding member of the conservative Independent Democratic Union party.
James the Great
James the Great (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.
Jörg Baten
Jörg Baten (born 24 June 1965 in Hamburg) is a German economic historian.
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Joaquín Lavín
Joaquín José Lavín Infante (born 23 October 1953) is a Chilean politician of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and former mayor of Las Condes, in the northeastern zone of Santiago.
Joaquín Prieto
Joaquín Prieto Vial (August 20, 1786 – November 22, 1854) was a Chilean military and political figure.
John Williams Wilson
John Williams Wilson (1798–1857), also known as Juan Guillermos, was an English-Chilean sailor and politician.
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Jorge Alessandri
Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez (19 May 1896 – 31 August 1986) was the 26th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador Allende.
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José de San Martín
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 177817 August 1850), nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru.
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José Donoso
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor.
José García Ruminot
José Gilberto García Ruminot (born 22 May 1955) is a Chilean politician and accountant who has served as member of the Senate of Chile.
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José Miguel Carrera
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (October 15, 1785 – September 4, 1821) was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile.
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Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Giuseppe di Buonaparte,; Ghjuseppe Napulione Bonaparte; José Napoleón Bonaparte; 7 January 176828 July 1844) was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Juan Fernández Islands
The Juan Fernández Islands (Archipiélago Juan Fernández) are a sparsely inhabited series of islands in the South Pacific Ocean reliant on tourism and fishing.
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Julio Leiva Molina
Julio Leiva Molina (born 21 January 1960) is the past commander-in-chief of the Chilean Navy.
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Julio Pinto
Julio Pinto Vallejos (born 1956) is a Chilean historian.
Junta (governing body)
Junta is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian term for a civil deliberative or administrative council.
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Karol Cariola
Karol Aída Cariola Oliva (born April 1, 1987) is a Chilean politician, and former president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Concepción (University of Concepción Student Federation) for 2010.
Kawésqar language
Kawésqar (Qawasqar), also known as Alacaluf, is a critically endangered Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
King George Island (Argentinian Spanish: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chilean Spanish: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian: Ватерло́о Vaterloo) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.
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Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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Kiwifruit
Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia) or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia.
Kris Tompkins
Kristine Tompkins (born June 1950) is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist and former CEO of Patagonia, Inc..
La Araucanía International Airport
La Araucanía International Airport, also known as Temuco Airport, is the main airport in the Araucanía Region and southern Chile.
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La Frontera (Chile)
La Frontera is a name used in Chile to refer to the region around the Bío Bío River, or to the whole area between there and the Toltén River.
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La Ley (band)
paren) were a Chilean rock band formed by Andrés Bobe, Rodrigo Aboitiz, Luciano Rojas and Mauricio Claveria with Beto Cuevas. The band has won one Grammy Award, two Latin Grammy Awards, three Lo Nuestro Awards and three Premios MTV Latinoamérica. La Ley has released eight studio albums, sixteen compilation albums, two EPs, thirty-one music videos, four video albums, one live album, one double format album, one soundtrack and thirty single albums.
La Moneda Palace
Palacio de La Moneda (Palace of the Mint), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the president of the Republic of Chile.
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La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper.
La Serena, Chile
La Serena is a city and commune in northern Chile, capital of the Coquimbo Region.
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Laguna San Rafael National Park
Laguna San Rafael National Park is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile.
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Lake Villarrica
Lake Villarrica, also known as Mallalafquén (its pre-Hispanic name is Mapudungun), is located about 700 kilometers south of Santiago in Chile's Lake District in the southeast area of the Province of Cautín.
Land bridge
In biogeography, a land bridge is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonize new lands.
Lapageria
Lapageria is a genus of flowering plants with only one known species, Lapageria rosea, commonly known as Chilean bellflower or copihue (copeewueh, from Mapudungun kopiwe).
LATAM Airlines Group
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. is a Chilean multinational airline holding company headquartered in Santiago, Chile.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
Latinobarómetro
Latinobarómetro Corporation is a private non-profit organization, based in Providencia, Chile.
Lauca River
The Lauca River is a binational river.
Lava tube
A lava tube, or pyroduct, is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava from a volcanic vent that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.
Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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Legal education
Legal education is the education of individuals in the principles, practices, and theory of law.
Liberal Party of Chile (2013)
The Liberal Party of Chile (Partido Liberal de Chile) is a social-liberal political party in Chile, founded 26 January 2013 in Santiago, Chile.
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Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players
The PIF ATP rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis.
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List of Chilean artists
This is a list of notable of visual artists from, or associated with, Chile.
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List of Christian denominations
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.
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List of countries by intentional homicide rate
The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year.
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List of museums in Chile
This is a list of museums in Chile.
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Lithium
Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.
Llama
The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.
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Llanquihue glaciation
The last glacial period and its associated glaciation is known in southern Chile as the Llanquihue glaciation (Glaciación de Llanquihue).
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Llanquihue Province
Llanquihue Province (Provincia de Llanquihue) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Los Lagos (X).
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Lluta River
The Lluta River is a river located in the northern portion of the Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile.
Loa River
The Loa River (Spanish: Río Loa) is a U-shaped river in Chile's northern Antofagasta Region.
Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.
LOM Ediciones
LOM Ediciones («Lom», means in yaghan language: «sun») is a Chilean press based in Santiago.
Los Jaivas
Los Jaivas is a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, psychedelic, and progressive rock styles formed in 1963 in Viña Del Mar, Chile.
Los Lagos Region
Los Lagos Region (Región de Los Lagos, 'Region of the Lakes') is one of Chile's 16 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena.
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Los Prisioneros
Los Prisioneros ("The Prisoners") were a Chilean rock band formed in San Miguel, Santiago, in 1982.
Los Ríos Region
The Los Ríos Region (Spanish: Región de Los Ríos,, Region of the Rivers) is one of Chile's 16 regions, the country's first-order administrative divisions.
Los Tres
Los Tres also known as The Tr3s or The 3, is a Chilean rock band.
Luis Altamirano
Luis Altamirano Talavera (July 5, 1867 – July 25, 1938) was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally president of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925.
Luis Ayala (tennis)
Luis Alberto Ayala Salinas (born 18 September 1932) is a former Chilean tennis player who competed in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Luis Carrera
Colonel Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo (1791 – April 8, 1818) was a Chilean military officer who fought in the Chilean War of Independence.
Lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
Magallanes Province
Magallanes Province (Provincia de Magallanes) is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena.
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Magallanes Region
The Magallanes Region, officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
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Majority
A majority is more than half of a total.
Mapocho River
The River Mapocho (Río Mapocho) (Mapudungun: Mapu chuco, "water that penetrates the land") is a river in Chile.
Mapuche
The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia.
Mapuche language
Mapuche (from mapu 'land' and che 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') or Mapudungun (from mapu 'land' and dungun 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also spelled Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) is an Araucanian language related to Huilliche spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people.
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Mapuche religion
The religion of the indigenous Mapuche people of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina is an extensive and ancient belief system.
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Marcelo Ríos
Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga (born 26 December 1975) is a Chilean former world No. 1 tennis player.
Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Mataveri International Airport
Mataveri International Airport or Isla de Pascua Airport is at Hanga Roa on Rapa Nui / (Easter Island) (Isla de Pascua in Spanish).
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Maule Region
The Maule Region (Región del Maule) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
Maule River
The Maule river or Río Maule (Mapudungun: rainy) is one of the most important rivers of Chile.
Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise, colloquially referred to as "mayo", is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries.
Median income
The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount.
Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).
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Memoria Chilena
Memoria Chilena (Spanish for Chilean Memory) is a Chilean cultural website which, according to its own words, "offers investigations and documents related to key topics which make up the Chilean identity, accessible through the areas of history, literature, social sciences, music, and visual arts." Memoria Chilena is, also, a virtual library, which preserves material from the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and other institutions from the Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM).
Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022.
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Military dictatorship of Chile
An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990.
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Ministry of Health (Chile)
The Ministry of Health of Chile (Ministerio de Salud de Chile), also known as MINSAL, is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the public health policies formulated by the President of Chile.
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Mocha Island
Mocha Island (Isla Mocha) is a Chilean island located west of the coast of Arauco Province in the Pacific Ocean.
Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a chemical element; it has symbol Mo (from Neo-Latin molybdaenum) and atomic number 42.
Monarchy of Spain
The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.
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Monte Verde
Monte Verde is a Paleolithic archaeological site in the Llanquihue Province in southern Chile, located near Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region.
Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Nahuelbuta National Park
Nahuelbuta National Park is one of the few parks in La Araucanía Region of Chile's Coastal Mountain Range.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Anthem of Chile
The "National Anthem of Chile" (Himno Nacional de Chile), also known as "Canción Nacional" or by its incipit "Puro, Chile, es tu cielo azulado" ('How pure, Chile, is your blue sky'), was adopted in 1828.
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National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), is a public research university in Mexico.
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National Congress of Chile
The National Congress of Chile (Congreso Nacional de Chile) is the legislative branch of the Republic of Chile.
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National language
A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation.
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National Library of Chile
The National Library of Chile is the national library of Chile.
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National Renewal (Chile)
National Renewal (Renovación Nacional, RN) is a liberal conservative political party in Chile.
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National sport
A national sport is a physical activity or sport that is culturally significant or deeply embedded in a nation, serving as a national symbol and an intrinsic element to a nation's identity and culture.
National Statistics Institute (Chile)
The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile, INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
Net asset value
Net asset value (NAV) is the value of an entity's assets minus the value of its liabilities, often in relation to open-end, mutual funds, hedge funds, and venture capital funds.
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet and physicist.
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising. Chile and Nicaragua are former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Nicolás Massú
Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (born 10 October 1979), nicknamed El Vampiro (Spanish, 'the vampire'), is a Chilean former professional tennis player and a coach.
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Norte Chico, Chile
The Norte Chico region is one of five natural regions of continental Chile, as defined by the government agency CORFO in 1950.
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Norte Grande
The Norte Grande (Big North, Far North, Great North) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.
Nueva canción
(European,; 'new song') is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics.
Numeracy
Numeracy is the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts.
O'Higgins Region
The Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region (Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins), often shortened to O'Higgins Region (Región de O'Higgins), is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
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Oat
The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).
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Occupation of Araucanía
The Occupation of Araucanía or Pacification of Araucanía (1861–1883) was a series of military campaigns, agreements and penetrations by the Chilean army and settlers into Mapuche territory which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chilean national territory.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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Off-road racing
Off-road racing is a form of motorsports consisting of specially-modified vehicles including cars, SUVs, trucks, motorbikes, quadbikes and buggies racing in off-road environments (e.g. snow, dirt, mud, etc.).
Ojos del Salado
Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border.
Oligarchy
Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.
Onion
An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
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Operation Condor
Operation Condor (Operação Condor; Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of political repression involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers, liberals and democrats and their families in South America which formally existed from 1975 to 1983.
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Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
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Osorno, Chile
Osorno (Mapuche: Chauracavi) is a city and commune in southern Chile and capital of Osorno Province in the Los Lagos Region.
Osvaldo Silva
Osvaldo Silva Galdames (24 May, 1940–2019) was a Chilean historian active within the field of prehistory.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, particularly within the Catholic Church.
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Outline of Chile
188px An enlargeable relief map of the Republic of Chile The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chile: Chile – country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Pablo de Rokha
Pablo de Rokha (born Carlos Ignacio Díaz Loyola; 17 October 1894 – 10 September 1968) was a Chilean poet.
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pacific Alliance
The Pacific Alliance (Alianza del Pacífico) is a Latin American trade bloc, formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, which all border the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
Pali-Aike volcanic field
The Pali-Aike volcanic field is a volcanic field along the Argentina–Chile border.
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Palin (game)
Palin (Mapuche: palin, palín) is a traditional game of the Mapuche people of South America.
Pampa del Tamarugal
Pampa del Tamarugal ("Plateau of the Tamarugal") is a vast plain encompassing a significant portion of the Norte Grande, Chile, and originally named for the Prosopis tamarugo trees that used to cover its surface.
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.
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Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway(Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; Rodovia/Autoestrada Pan-americana; Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana is a network of roads stretching across the Americas, measuring about in total length.
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Panama crisis of 1885
The Panama Crisis of 1885 was an intervention by the United States in support of a rebellion in Panama, at the time part of Colombia, and an ensuing show of force by Chile in support of the Colombian government.
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Parallel (geometry)
In geometry, parallel lines are coplanar infinite straight lines that do not intersect at any point.
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Parinacota (volcano)
Parinacota (in Hispanicized spelling), Parina Quta or Parinaquta is a dormant stratovolcano on the border of Bolivia and Chile.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Party for Democracy (Chile)
The Party for Democracy (Partido por la Democracia, PPD), also known as For Democracy (Por la Democracia) is a centre-left political party in Chile.
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Party of the People (Chile)
The Party of the People (Partido de la Gente, PDG) is a Chilean political party, characterized as a centre-right to right-wing and populist.
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Pastel de choclo
Pastel de choclo ("corn pie" or "corn cake") is a South American dish made from sweetcorn or choclo.
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Patagonia
Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.
Patagonia National Park (Chile)
Patagonia National Park (Spanish: Parque Patagonia) is a national park in the Aysén Region of Chile.
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Patricio Aylwin
Patricio Aylwin Azócar (26 November 1918 – 19 April 2016) was a Chilean politician from the Christian Democratic Party, lawyer, author, professor and former senator.
Patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.
Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
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Pear
Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in late summer into mid-autumn.
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Pedro de Valdivia
Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553) was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile.
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Pedro Messone
Pedro Aquiles Messone Rivas (6 June 1934 – 1 June 2023) was a Chilean folk singer and actor, whose career spanned almost 60 years.
Pensions in Chile
The Chile pension system (Spanish: Sistema Previsional) refers to old-age, disability and survivor pensions for workers in Chile.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Chile and Peru are countries in South America, former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations, republics and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Peru–Bolivian Confederation
The Peru–Bolivian Confederation (Confederación Perú-Boliviana) was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Chile and Philippines are former Spanish colonies, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Phylloxera
Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.
Pichilemu
Pichilemu, originally known as Pichilemo, is a beach resort city and commune in central Chile, and capital of Cardenal Caro Province in the O'Higgins Region.
Picunche
The Picunche (a Mapudungun word meaning "North People"), also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a Mapudungun-speaking people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians (a name given to those Mapuche living between the Itata and Toltén rivers) and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas.
Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.
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Pitrufquén
Pitrufquén is a Chilean city and commune in Cautín Province, Araucanía Region.
PLOS Genetics
PLOS Genetics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal established in 2005 and published by the Public Library of Science.
Plum
A plum is a fruit of some species in ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus''. Dried plums are often called prunes, though in the United States they may be labeled as 'dried plums', especially during the 21st century.
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Plurality (voting)
A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast.
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Policarpo Toro
Policarpo Toro Hurtado (born in Melipilla, Chile on February 6, 1856 – died 1921 in Santiago, Chile) was a Chilean naval officer.
Political polarization
Political polarization (spelled polarisation in British English, African and Caribbean English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes.
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Polo
Polo is a ball game that is played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports.
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Pomerape
Pomerape is a stratovolcano lying on the border of northern Chile and Bolivia (Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Curahuara de Carangas Municipality).
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
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Popular Unity (Chile)
Popular Unity (Unidad Popular, UP) was a left-wing political alliance in Chile that stood behind the successful candidacy of Salvador Allende for the 1970 Chilean presidential election.
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Portillo, Chile
Portillo is a ski resort in South America, located in the Andes mountains of Chile.
Potash
Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.
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Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
Preschool
A preschool (sometimes spelled as pre school or pre-school), also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.
Presidency of Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was a Socialist and Marxist elected to the national presidency of a liberal democracy in Latin America.
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President of Chile
The President of Chile (Presidente de Chile), officially known as the President of the Republic of Chile (Presidente de la República de Chile), is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Chile.
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President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
The president of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile (Presidente de la Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados de la República de Chile) is the highest authority of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.
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President of the Senate of Chile
The president of the Senate of Chile is the presiding officer of the Senate of Chile.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Presidente Carlos Ibáñez del Campo International Airport
Presidente Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Presidente Carlos Ibáñez) is an airport serving the city of Punta Arenas in southern Chile in the Patagonia region of South America.
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Presidential system
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.
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Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
Private university
Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments.
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Privatization
Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Province
A province is an administrative division within a country or state.
Provinces of Chile
A province is a second-level administrative division in Chile.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Public holiday
A public holiday, national holiday, federal holiday, statutory holiday, or legal holiday is a holiday generally established by law and is usually a non-working day during the year.
Public university
A public university or public college is a university or college that is owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government.
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Public works
Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.
Pucón
Pucón (Mapudungun: "entrance to the cordillera") is a Chilean city and commune administered by the municipality of Pucón.
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Pudu
The pudus (Mapudungun püdü or püdu, pudú) are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world's smallest deer.
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Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt (Mapuche: Meli Pulli) is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of the Reloncaví Sound in the Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, 1,055 km to the south of the capital, Santiago.
Puerto Octay
Puerto Octay is a town and commune in Osorno Province located on the north shore of Llanquihue Lake in Los Lagos Region in the south of Chile.
Puerto Varas
Puerto Varas, also known as "La Ciudad De Las Rosas" or “The City Of Roses”, is a city and commune located in the southern Chilean province of Llanquihue, in the Los Lagos Region.
Puna de Atacama dispute
The Puna de Atacama dispute, sometimes referred to as Puna de Atacama Lawsuit (Spanish: Litigio de la Puna de Atacama), was a border dispute involving Argentina, Chile and Bolivia in the 19th century over the arid high plateau of Puna de Atacama located about 4500 meters above the sea around the current borders of the three countries.
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Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas (historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena.
Putre
Putre is a Chilean town and commune, capital of the Parinacota Province in the Arica-Parinacota Region.
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Quechua people
Quechua people or Quichua people may refer to any of the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru.
Quechuan languages
Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
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Quilapayún
Quilapayún are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement and genre.
Raúl de Ramón
Raúl de Ramón, full name Raúl Alberto de Ramón García del Postigo, (May 12, 1929, Santiago de Chile — April 1984) was a Chilean composer, musician and folklorist and author of numerous widely known songs in Chile, such as The Curanto, Nostalgia Colchaguina, Camino de Soledad, Rosa Colorada, Canción de la Caballería, El Amor del Arriero and many more.
Raúl Zurita
Raúl Armando Zurita Canessa (born January 10, 1950) is a Chilean poet.
Radical Party of Chile
The Radical Party (Spanish: Partido Radical) was a Chilean political party.
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Radical Party of Chile (2018)
The Radical Party of Chile (Partido Radical de Chile), is a classical radical political party in Chile.
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Rancagua
Rancagua is a city and commune in central Chile and part of the Rancagua conurbation.
Rapa Nui language
Rapa Nui or Rapanui (Rapa Nui:, Spanish), also known as Pascuan or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family.
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Rapa Nui mythology
Rapa Nui mythology, also known as Pascuense mythology or Easter Island mythology, refers to the native myths, legends, and beliefs of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island in the south eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui National Park (Parque nacional Rapa Nui) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile.
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Real Situado
The royal situado (real situado) was the Spanish term for revenues that the viceroyalties of Peru, New Spain, New Granada, and Rio de la Plata sent to finance colonial frontier defenses against internal and external enemies.
Reconquista (Spanish America)
In the struggle for the independence of Spanish America, the Reconquista refers to the period of Colombian and Chilean history, following the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, during which royalist armies were able to gain the upper hand in the Spanish American wars of independence.
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Referendum
A referendum (referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
Reformation Day
Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation.
Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).
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Regions of Chile
Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular), which are the country's first-level administrative division.
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Religious discrimination
Religious discrimination is treating a person or group differently because of the particular beliefs which they hold about a religion.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Republican Party (Chile, 2019)
The Republican Party (Partido Republicano; PLR) is a right-wing populist and conservative political party in Chile.
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Rettig Report
The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a 1991 report by a commission designated by Chilean President Patricio Aylwin (from the Concertación) detailing human rights abuses resulting in deaths or disappearances that occurred in Chile during the years of military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet, which began on September 11, 1973 and ended on March 11, 1990.
Rhenium
Rhenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Re and atomic number 75.
Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006.
Ricardo Martínez Menanteau
Ricardo Martínez Menanteau (born 24 February 1960, Santiago, Chile) is a member of the Chilean military and has held the position of Commander-in-Chief of Chile since 9 March 2018, since being appointed by former president Michelle Bachelet after predecessor, Humberto Oviedo, retired.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes.
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.
Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.
S&P Global Ratings
S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities.
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Salar de Atacama
Salar de Atacama, located south of San Pedro de Atacama, is the largest salt flat in Chile.
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Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
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Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973.
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San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region.
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Sandinista National Liberation Front
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a Christian socialist political party in Nicaragua.
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Santa Lucía Hill
Santa Lucía Hill (Cerro Santa Lucía), also known in Mapuche as Huelén Hill (Cerro Huelén), is a small hill in the centre of Santiago, Chile.
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Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas.
Santiago Metro
The Santiago Metro (Metro de Santiago) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Santiago, the capital of Chile.
Santiago Metropolitan Region
Santiago Metropolitan Region (Región Metropolitana de Santiago) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022.
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Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Seismology
Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or other planetary bodies.
Senate of Chile
The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile.
Senator for life
A senator for life is a member of the senate or equivalent upper chamber of a legislature who has life tenure.
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Separation of church and state
The separation of church and state is a philosophical and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the state.
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Sergio Villalobos
Sergio Villalobos Rivera (born April 19, 1930) is a Chilean historian, and Chilean National History Award in 1992.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Sewell, Chile
Sewell is a populated Chilean mining town located on the slopes of the Andes in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, at an altitude of between 2,000 and 2,250 metres.
Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
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Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
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Slash-and-burn
Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.
Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet.
Social Convergence
The Social Convergence (CS) was a left-wing political party in Chile.
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Socialist Party of Chile
The Socialist Party of Chile (Partido Socialista de Chile, or PS) is a centre-left political party founded in 1933.
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Solar energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture.
Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area (surface power density) received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
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South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
South American gray fox
The South American gray fox (Lycalopex griseus), also known as the Patagonian fox, the chilla or zorro gris (gray fox or gray zorro), is a South American species of Lycalopex (the "false" or lesser foxes) in the Canidae family, which includes dogs, wolves, jackals, coyotes and foxes, among other canids.
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South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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South Bolivian Quechua
South Bolivian Quechua, also known as Central Bolivian Quechua, is a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Bolivia and adjacent areas of Argentina, where it is also known as Colla.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. Chile and South Korea are member states of the United Nations, OECD members and republics.
Southern Cone
The Southern Cone (Cono Sur, Cone Sul) is a geographical and cultural subregion composed of the southernmost areas of South America, mostly south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. Chile and Spain are member states of the United Nations, OECD members and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
Spanish Chileans
Spanish Chileans refer more often to Chileans of post-independence Spanish immigrant descent, as they have retained a Spanish cultural identity.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spillover (economics)
In economics, a spillover is a positive or a negative, but more often negative, impact experienced in one region or across the world due to an independent event occurring from an unrelated environment.
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Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.
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Sulfur
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.
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Supreme Court of Chile
The Supreme Court of Chile is the highest court in Chile.
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Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
Surfing in Chile
Chile has many beaches for surfing, especially in the northern region where the weather conditions attract many surfers from all over the world.
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Talca
Talca is a city and commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region (7th Region of Chile).
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Talcahuano
Talcahuano (From Mapudungun Tralkawenu, "Thundering Sky") is a port city and commune in the Biobío Region of Chile.
Tarapacá Region
The Tarapacá Region (Región de Tarapacá) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions.
Telecommunications in Chile
The technical regulator of communications in Chile is the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel).
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Telephone numbers in Chile
The following telephone numbers in Chile are geographic area codes for all national and international calls terminating in Chile.
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Temuco
Temuco is a city and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile.
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Teresa of the Andes
Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes, OCD (Spanish: Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes; born Juana Enriqueta Josephina de Los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar; 13 July 1900 – 12 April 1920) was a Chilean nun of the Discalced Carmelites.
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Termas de Chillán
Termas de Chillán is a town located 82 km east of the Chilean city of Chillán.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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The Crown
The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).
The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.
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The Obscene Bird of Night
The Obscene Bird of Night (El obsceno pájaro de la noche, 1970) is the most acclaimed novel by the Chilean writer José Donoso.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
Tierra del Fuego Province (Provincia de Tierra del Fuego) is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena (XII).
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
Time in Chile
Time in Chile is divided into three time zones.
Tonada
The tonada is a folk music style of Spain and some countries of Hispanic America (mainly Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela).
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Torres del Paine National Park
Torres del Paine National Park (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine) is a national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia.
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Transverse Valleys
The Transverse Valleys (Spanish: Valles transversales) are a group of transverse valleys in the semi-arid northern Chile.
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Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1904)
The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia was signed in Santiago de Chile on October 20, 1904, to delineate the boundary through 96 specified points between Cerro Zapaleri and Cerro Chipe and to regulate the relations between the two countries 20 years after the end of the War of the Pacific.
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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.
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Tribal chief
A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
Tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator.
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Tsunami
A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC, UNECLAC or in Spanish and Portuguese CEPAL, is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States intervention in Chile
United States intervention in Chilean politics started during the War of Chilean Independence (1812–1826).
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University of Brasília
The University of Brasília (Universidade de Brasília, UnB) is a federal public university in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.
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University of Chile
The University of Chile (Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile.
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Urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
US Open (tennis)
The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York.
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Vachellia caven
Vachellia caven (Roman cassie, aromita, aromo criollo, caven, italic, italic, espinillo, espinillo de baado, espino, espino maulino) is an ornamental tree in the family Fabaceae.
Valdivia
Valdivia (Mapuche: Ainil) is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia.
Valech Report
The Valech Report, officially known as The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report, documents instances of abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military regime.
Valle de la Luna (Chile)
El Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) is located west of San Pedro de Atacama, in the north of Chile in the Cordillera de la Sal, in the Atacama desert.
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Valle Nevado
Valle Nevado (() - Snowy Valley in the Spanish language) is a ski resort located on the El Plomo foothills in the Andes Mountains, at 46 km to the east of Santiago, the capital of Chile.
Valparaíso
Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.
Valparaíso Region
The Valparaíso Region (Región de Valparaíso) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
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Víctor Jara
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. Chile and Venezuela are countries in South America, former Spanish colonies, G15 nations, member states of the United Nations and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Viña del Mar
Viña del Mar (meaning "Vineyard of the Sea") is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast.
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
The Viña del Mar International Song Festival (Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar) is an annual international music festival held every third week of February in Viña del Mar, Chile.
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Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family.
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Victoria, Chile
Victoria is a city and commune in Malleco Province of La Araucanía Region, Chile.
Violeta Parra
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist.
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
War of the Confederation
The War of the Confederation (Guerra de la Confederación) was a military confrontation waged by the United Restoration Army, the alliance of the land and naval forces of Chile and the Restoration Army of Peru, formed in 1836 by Peruvian soldiers opposed to the confederation, and the Argentine Confederation against the Peru–Bolivian Confederation between 1836 and 1839.
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War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific (Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Nitrate War (Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884.
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Wesleyan Church
The Wesleyan Church, also known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Wesleyan Holiness Church depending on the region, is a Methodist Christian denomination in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Indonesia, and Australia.
Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
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White Latin Americans
White Latin Americans or European Latin Americans (sometimes Euro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of European descent.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work.
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Bank high-income economy
A high-income economy is defined by the World Bank as a country with a gross national income per capita of US$14,005 or more in 2023, calculated using the Atlas method.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Polo Championship
The World Polo Championship is a polo (Horse Polo) competition between countries (Up to 2022, only for men).
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World Team Cup
The World Team Cup was the international men's team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Yahgan language
Yahgan or Yagán (also spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta) is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yahgan people.
Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yellow-winged blackbird
The yellow-winged blackbird (Agelasticus thilius) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.
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Yogurt
Yogurt (from; also spelled yoghurt, yogourt or yoghourt) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.
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Zona Austral
The Zona Austral (Southernmost Zone) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950 corresponding to the Chilean portion of Patagonia.
Zona Sur
Zona Sur (Southern Zone) is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.
.cl
.cl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Chile.
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17th parallel south
The 17th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 17 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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1851 Chilean revolution
The Revolution of 1851 (or Civil War of 1851) was an attempt by Chilean liberals to overthrow the conservative government of president Manuel Montt and repeal the Chilean Constitution of 1833.
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1859 Chilean revolution
The Chilean Revolution of 1859 was the second attempt by the Chilean Liberals to overthrow their country's Conservative government.
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1902 Arbitral award of the Andes between Argentina and Chile
The 1902 Arbitral award of the Andes between Argentina and Chile (Laudo limítrofe entre Argentina y Chile de 1902) was a British arbitration in 1902 that established the present-day boundaries between Argentina and Chile.
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1959 FIBA World Championship
The 1959 FIBA World Championship was the 3rd FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams.
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1962 FIFA World Cup
The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams.
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1964 Chilean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 September 1964.
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1973 Chilean coup d'état
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government.
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1988 Chilean presidential referendum
A referendum on whether Augusto Pinochet, the head of a military dictatorship, should become president for eight years under resumed civilian rule was held in Chile on October 5, 1988.
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1999–2000 Chilean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Chile on 12 December 1999, with a second round on 16 January 2000.
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2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 2004), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (label) and officially branded as Athens 2004 (Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
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2007–2008 financial crisis
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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2009–10 Chilean general election
General elections were held in Chile on Sunday 13 December 2009 to elect the president, all 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 18 of the 38 members of the Senate were up for election.
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2010 Chile earthquake
The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (Terremoto del 27F) occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34:12 local time (06:34:12 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes.
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2010 Copiapó mining accident
The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known then as the "Chilean mining accident", began on 5 August 2010, with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile.
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2013 United Nations Security Council election
The 2013 United Nations Security Council election was held on 17 October 2013 during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
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2017 Chilean general election
General elections were held in Chile on 19 November 2017, including presidential, parliamentary and regional elections.
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2019–2022 Chilean protests
A series of massive demonstrations and severe riots, known in Chile as the Estallido Social (lit. social outburst), originated in Santiago and took place in all regions of Chile, with a greater impact in the regional capitals.
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2020 Chilean constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Chile on 25 October 2020.
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2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election
An election for the members of the Constitutional Convention was held in Chile between 15 and 16 May 2021.
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2021 Chilean general election
General elections were held in Chile on 21 November 2021, including presidential, parliamentary and regional elections.
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2022 Chilean constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Chile on 4 September 2022, in order to determine whether the public agreed with the text of a new Political Constitution of the Republic drawn up by the Constitutional Convention.
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2023 Chilean constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Chile on 17 December 2023, to determine whether the public approved a new constitution drafted by an appointed committee of experts and amended by an elected Constitutional Council.
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56th parallel south
The 56th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 56 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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66th meridian west
The meridian 66° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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75th meridian west
The meridian 75° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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See also
1818 establishments in Chile
- Chile
- Hussars of Death
1818 establishments in South America
- Chile
- Santa Bárbara d'Oeste
Countries in South America
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Guyana
- List of South American countries and dependencies by GDP (PPP)
- List of South American countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
G15 nations
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Egypt
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sri Lanka
- Venezuela
- Zimbabwe
OECD members
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of Ireland
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Spanish-speaking countries and territories
- Alta California
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Captaincy General of Chile
- Captaincy General of Cuba
- Captaincy General of Guatemala
- Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
- Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
- Captaincy General of Venezuela
- Captaincy General of Yucatán
- Captaincy General of the Philippines
- Chile
- Colombia
- Colony of Santiago
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guatemala
- Hispanidad
- Honduras
- Insular Government of Porto Rico
- Intendancy of San Salvador
- List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language
- Mexico
- New Spain
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Province of Las Californias
- Provincias Internas
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of Texas
- Republic of Yucatán
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Spain
- Spanish West Indies
- Upper Peru
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Viceroyalty of New Granada
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
- Western Sahara
States and territories established in 1818
- Ahmednagar district
- Ajmer-Merwara
- Bade Emirate
- Bhopal Agency
- Chile
- Darkehmen (district)
- Dutch Malacca
- Flatow (district)
- Illinois
- Ilocos Norte
- Ilocos Sur
- Jaora State
- Kingdom of Mewar
- Kreis Angerburg
- Kreis Goldap
- Kreis Labiau
- Kreis Mohrungen
- Kreis Rosenberg in Westpreußen
- Kreis Schwetz
- Landkreis Graudenz
- Landkreis Regenwalde
- Palawan
- Pembina Region
- Province of Catania
- Saugor and Nerbudda Territories
- Schlochau (district)
- Vigo County, Indiana
- Zulu Kingdom
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