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Chile

Chile Notes

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Santiago The capital and largest city of Chile; home to the continent's tallest building, the Gran Torre.
Atacama Desert The driest non-polar place on Earth; located in northern Chile and known for nitrate and copper mining.
Easter Island Also known as Rapa Nui; a Chilean territory in the Pacific famous for its monolithic moai statues.
Emi Koussi The highest point in the Sahara Desert (found in Chad, but often confused with Ojos del Salado in Chile).
Ojos del Salado The highest peak in Chile and the highest active volcano in the world.
Valparaiso The chief port city of Chile and the location of its National Congress.
Juan Fernandez Islands The archipelago containing Robinson Crusoe Island, where Alexander Selkirk was marooned.
Tierra del Fuego The southern archipelago shared with Argentina, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan.
Loa River The longest river in Chile, which flows through the Atacama Desert.
Copper The primary natural resource and export of Chile, with the largest open-pit mine at Chuquicamata.
Mapuche The largest indigenous group in Chile, known for their historic resistance against Spanish conquest.
Yaghan The indigenous people of the southern fjords whose language famously died out in 2022.
Valdivia The city near the epicenter of the 1960 earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded.
Patagonia The rugged southern region shared between Chile and Argentina, home to Torres del Paine National Park.
Bernardo O'Higgins The leader of Chilean independence often considered the "Liberator" of the nation.
La Moneda The presidential palace in Santiago that was bombed during the 1973 coup.
Alexander Selkirk The real-life inspiration for Robinson Crusoe who was marooned on the Juan Fernandez Islands.
Very Large Telescope (VLT) The astronomical facility located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert.
Beagle Channel The waterway in the south named for the ship that carried Charles Darwin; site of a border conflict with Argentina.
Moai The massive stone human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.
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