The following is an outline of topics related to the Republic of Chile.

Chile

• Chile
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...
  
   country code for Chile: CL
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
  ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...
  
   country code for Chile: CHL
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  
• ISO 3166-2:CL
  ISO 3166-2:CL
  ISO 3166-2:CL is the entry for Chile in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Chile, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined...
  
   region codes for Chile

Easter Island

• Aku-Aku
  Aku-Aku
  Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island is a 1958 book by Thor Heyerdahl that described his research at Rano Raraku and Anakena on the many giant stone statues or moai found on Easter Island and the culture that created them....
  
  
• Easter Island
  Easter Island
  Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...
  
  
• Hanga Roa
  Hanga Roa
  Hanga Roa is the main town, harbour and capital of the Chilean province of Easter Island. It is located in the southern part of the island's west coast, in the lowlands between the extinct volcanoes of Terevaka and Rano Kau....
  
  
• Mataveri International Airport
  Mataveri International Airport
  -See also:*Extreme points of Earth*Shuttle Down, a 1980 novel by American author G. Harry Stine , which gives a fictional account of the Space Shuttle Atlantis making an emergency landing.-External links:***...
  
  
• Music of Easter Island
  Music of Easter Island
  Easter Island is located in the Pacific Ocean. Though its earliest inhabitants are ethnically Polynesian, the island is part of the South American state of Chile.-History:...
  
  
• Rapa Nui (film)
  Rapa Nui (film)
  Rapa Nui is a 1994 film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was produced by Kevin Costner and Barrie M. Osborne, among others. The plot is based on Rapanui legends of Easter Island, Chile, in particular the race for the Sooty Tern's egg in the Birdman Cult....
  
  
• Rapa Nui National Park
  Rapa Nui National Park
  Rapa Nui National Park is a World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile. The park is divided into seven sections:*Rano Kau *Puna Pau ....
  
  
• Rapa Nui language
  Rapa Nui language
  Rapa Nui , also known as Pascuan or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island....
  
  
• Rapanui
  Rapanui
  The Rapa Nui or Rapanui are the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in the Pacific Ocean. The easternmost Polynesian culture, the Rapa Nui people make up 60% of Easter Island's population, with some living also in mainland Chile...
  
  
• Williamson-Balfour Company
  Williamson-Balfour Company
  The Williamson-Balfour Company was a Scottish owned Chilean company. Its successor company, Williamson Balfour Motors S.A., is a subsidiary of the British company Inchcape plc....
  
  

Buildings and structures in Chile

• Bahá'í House of Worship
  Bahá'í House of Worship
  A Bahá'í House of Worship, sometimes referred to by its Arabic name of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár ,is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith...
  
  
• Christ the Redeemer of the Andes
  Christ the Redeemer of the Andes
  Christ the Redeemer of the Andes is a monument high in the Andes at 3,832 metres above mean sea level on the border between Argentina and Chile...
  
  
• Churches of Chiloé
  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 buildings of Chilota architecture. Unlike classical Spanish colonial architecture the churches of Chiloé are made entirely in native timber with extensive use of...
  
  
• Costanera Center
  Costanera Center
  Costanera Center is an ongoing development and construction of four skyscrapers being built in the Sanhattan financial district of Santiago, Chile by Cencosud...
  
  
• Cruz del Tercer Milenio
  Cruz del Tercer Milenio
  Cruz del Tercer Milenio is a 83 metres tall, 40 metres wide, concrete cross located atop El Vigía hill in Coquimbo, Chile. Construction began in 1999 and it was completed in 2001. It sits 197 metres above sea level. It is considered the tallest monument in South America.-External...
  
  
• Estación Mapocho
  Estación Mapocho
  Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the Estación Mapocho was for a long time the hub for all rail traffic serving northern Chile, Valparaiso and Argentina. Built to celebrate the centennial of Chilean independence, the building has an obvious sentimental value that adds to its imposing...
  
  
• Ex Congreso Nacional
  Ex Congreso Nacional
  The Former National Congress Building is the former home of the Chilean Congress. Congress met in this building in central Santiago until Salvador Allende's socialist government was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet's military coup d'état on September 11, 1973.During the Pinochet dictatorship,...
  
  
• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.-Geography:...
  
  
• Casa de Isla Negra
  Casa de Isla Negra
  Casa de Isla Negra was one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. It is located at Isla Negra, El Quisco, San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region about 85 km to the south of Valparaíso and 110 km to the west of Santiago. It was his favorite house and where he and his third wife, Matilde Urrutia...
  
  
• Morandé 80
  Morandé 80
  Morandé 80 is the street address for a door located on the east side of Palacio de La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace. The door was built in 1906 so that the President could enter into the palace as a common citizen...
  
  

Observatories in Chile

• Atacama Large Millimeter Array
  Atacama Large Millimeter Array
  The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array is an array of radio telescopes in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. Since a high and dry site is crucial to millimeter wavelength operations, the array is being constructed on the Chajnantor plateau at 5000 metres altitude...
  
  
• Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
  Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
  The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment is a radio telescope located at 5,100 meters above sea level, at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama desert, in northern Chile, 50 kilometers to the east of San Pedro de Atacama. The main dish has a diameter of 12 meters and consists of 264...
  
  
• Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
  Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
  The Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment is a 10m antenna built by Mitsubishi Electric as a preprototype for ALMA.The ASTE was deployed to its site on Pampa La Bola, near Cerro Chajnantor and the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in northern Chile. The antenna shows excellent performance...
  
  
• Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network
  Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network
  The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network consists of a network of six remote solar observatories monitoring low-degree solar oscillation modes. It is operated by the High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy group of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK, in...
  
  
• Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
  Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
  The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments located at 30.169 S, 70.804 W, approximately 80 km to the East of La Serena, Chile at an altitude of 2200 metres. The complex is part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory along with Kitt...
  
  
• Cosmic Background Imager
  Cosmic Background Imager
  The Cosmic Background Imager was a 13-element interferometer perched at an elevation of 5,080 metres at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Chilean Andes...
  
  
• European Southern Observatory
  European Southern Observatory
  The European Southern Observatory is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy, supported by fifteen countries...
  
  
• Gemini Observatory
  Gemini Observatory
  The Gemini Observatory is an astronomical observatory consisting of two telescopes at sites in Hawai‘i and Chile. Together, the twin Gemini telescopes provide almost complete coverage of both the northern and southern skies...
  
  
• Giant Magellan Telescope
  Giant Magellan Telescope
  The Giant Magellan Telescope is a ground-based extremely large telescope planned for completion in 2018. It will consist of seven diameter primary segments, with the resolving power of a primary mirror and collecting area equivalent to one...
  
  
• La Silla Observatory
  La Silla Observatory
  La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory organisation, and several others are partly maintained by ESO...
  
  
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
  Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
  The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is a planned wide-field "survey" reflecting telescope that will photograph the available sky every three nights. The LSST is currently in its design and development phase and will achieve engineering first light four years after construction starts...
  
  
• Las Campanas Observatory
  Las Campanas Observatory
  Las Campanas Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science It was established in 1969 and remains the primary observing site of that institution. The headquarters is located in La Serena, Chile and the observatory is in the southern Atacama...
  
  
• Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
  Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
  Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at an altitude of 5,104 m in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the east of San Pedro de Atacama. It is a very dry site - inhospitable to humans - but an excellent site for submillimetre astronomy...
  
  
• Magellan telescopes
  Magellan telescopes
  The Magellan Telescopes are a pair of 6.5 m diameter optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The two telescopes are named after the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon T...
  
  
• NANTEN2 Observatory
  NANTEN2 Observatory
  The NANTEN2 Observatory is a southern sky observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is located at an altitude of on Pampa la Bola next to Cerro Chajnantor. The observatory is equipped with a millimeter and submillimeter wave telescope that is used for southern sky observations of...
  
  
• Paranal Observatory
  Paranal Observatory
  Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on Cerro Paranal at 2,635 m altitude and operated by the European Southern Observatory. The Very Large Telescope is the largest telescope on Paranal, actually composed of four separate 8.2 m telescopes...
  
  
• SOAR telescope
  SOAR telescope
  The Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope is a modern 4.1-meter-aperture optical and near-infrared telescope located on Cerro Pachón, Chile at 2,738 meters elevation...
  
  

Houses in Chile

• Guaraculén
  Guaraculén
  Guaraculén was a large hacienda and hamlet, located near Villa Alegre, in the current province of Linares, in the Maule Region of Chile.Guaraculén was the birthplace of the famed Jesuit Priest, naturalist and cronist Juan Ignacio Molina , who was forced to leave Chile in 1768 when the Jesuits were...
  
  

Sports venues in Chile

• Arena Santiago
  Arena Santiago
  Movistar Arena, formerly known as Arena Santiago is a multipurpose theater located in Santiago, Chile, located inside O'Higgins Park, in downtown Santiago...
  
  
• Estadio Víctor Jara
  Estadio Víctor Jara
  Estadio Víctor Jara is the name of the former Estadio Chile, or Chile Stadium, in Santiago, Chile. The multi-use sports complex was renamed as a memorial to folk singer Víctor Jara, who was killed there, during the Chilean coup of 1973. It has a total capacity for an audience of 4,500 persons...
  
  
• Medialuna Monumental de Rancagua

Football venues in Chile

• Estadio Municipal de Calama
  Estadio Municipal de Calama
  Estadio Municipal de Calama is a multi-use stadium in Calama, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Cobreloa. The stadium holds 13,000 people and was built in 1952....
  
  
• Estadio Carlos Dittborn
  Estadio Carlos Dittborn
  Estadio Carlos Dittborn is a multi-purpose stadium in Arica, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 17,786 people and was built in 1962 as a venue for the 1962 World Cup, which was hosted by Chile...
  
  
• Estadio El Cobre
  Estadio El Cobre
  Estadio El Cobre is a multi-use stadium in El Salvador, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportes Cobresal. The stadium holds 20,752 people, which is more than twice the population of El Salvador, and was built in 1980....
  
  
• Estadio El Teniente
  Estadio El Teniente
  Estadio El Teniente is a multi-purpose stadium in Rancagua, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 14,450 people and was built in 1945 with the name Braden Copper Company Stadium . The stadium hosted several matches of World Cup Soccer in 1962...
  
  
• Estadio Fiscal
  Estadio Fiscal
  Estadio Fiscal de Talca is a multi-use public stadium in Talca, Chile. It is currently used mostly for association football matches and is the home stadium of Club Social de Deportes Rangers. The stadium holds 17,020 people and was built in 1937....
  
  
• Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso
  Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso
  Estadio Municipal Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso is a multi-purpose stadium in Coquimbo, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the home stadium of Coquimbo Unido. The former stadium was inaugurated on July 1, 1970 and hold 17,750 people....
  
  
• Estadio La Portada
  Estadio La Portada
  Estadio La Portada is a multi-use stadium in La Serena, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club de Deportes La Serena. The stadium holds 14,000 people and was built in 1952....
  
  
• Estadio Las Higueras
  Estadio Las Higueras
  Estadio Las Higueras was a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile. It was the home ground of the Club Deportivo Huachipato until the current Estadio CAP opened in 2009. The stadium held 10,000 people, was built in 1960 and was demolished in 2008....
  
  
• Estadio Monumental David Arellano
  Estadio Monumental David Arellano
  Estadio Monumental is a football stadium in Santiago, Chile. Completed in 1989, the stadium has a current spectator capacity of 45,000. Originally, the stadium could hold up to 65,000 spectators but that was dramatically reduced for security reasons...
  
  
• Estadio Municipal de Concepción
  Estadio Municipal de Concepción
  Estadio Municipal de Concepcion is a multi-purpose stadium in Concepción, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1962 and has a capacity of 35,000 people....
  
  
• Estadio Municipal de La Florida
  Estadio Municipal de La Florida
  Estadio Bicentenario Municipal de La Florida is a multi-purpose stadium, located in La Florida, one of the southern areas of Santiago, Chile. It is used mostly for football matches, because it is the home stadium of the Chilean football team Audax Club Sportivo Italiano. The stadium was built in...
  
  
• Estadio Nacional de Chile
  Estadio Nacional de Chile
  The Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago). It is the largest stadium in Chile with an official capacity of 47,000, and is part of a 62 ha sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a...
  
  
• Estadio Playa Ancha
  Estadio Playa Ancha
  Estadio Regional Chiledeportes, formerly known as Estadio Playa Ancha, is a multi-purpose stadium in Valparaíso, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Santiago Wanderers. The stadium holds 18,500 people and was built in 1931....
  
  
• Estadio Regional de Antofagasta
  Estadio Regional de Antofagasta
  Estadio Regional de Antofagasta is a multi-use stadium in Antofagasta, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club de Deportes Antofagasta. The stadium holds 26,339 people and was built in 1964....
  
  
• Estadio Regional de Chinquihue
  Estadio Regional de Chinquihue
  Estadio Regional de Chinquihue is a multi-use stadium in Puerto Montt, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club de Deportes Puerto Montt. The stadium holds 11,300 people and was built in 1982. The stadium is currently undergoing reconstruction to a...
  
  
• Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
  Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
  Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo is a multi-purpose stadium, in Santiago, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportivo Universidad Católica...
  
  
• Estadio Santa Laura
  Estadio Santa Laura
  Estadio Santa Laura is a football stadium in Independencia, Santiago, Chile. It is the home stadium of Unión Española. The stadium holds 22,000 people and was built in 1922. It is a multi - use stadium , also used for concerts. It is rarely sold out for soccer matches and attendance is rarely...
  
  
• Estadio Santiago Bueras
  Estadio Santiago Bueras
  Estadio Santiago Bueras is a multi-use stadium in Maipu, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Magallanes. The stadium holds 5,000 people and was built in 1984....
  
  
• Estadio Sausalito
  Estadio Sausalito
  Estadio Sausalito is a multi-purpose stadium in Viña del Mar, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of CD Everton. The stadium holds 18,037 people and was built in 1929...
  
  

Cities in Chile

• List of cities in Chile grouped by region, also largest cities
• Ancud, Chile
• Andacollo, Chile
• Angol, Chile
• Antofagasta, Chile
• Arica, Chile
  Arica, Chile
  Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 185,269 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica and Parinacota Region, located only south of the border with Peru. The city is the capital of both the Arica Province and the Arica and Parinacota Region...
  
  
• Lo Barnechea, Chile
• Batuco, Chile
• El Bosque, Chile
• Calama, Chile
  Calama, Chile
  Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the Antofagasta Region. Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just . The River Loa, Chile's longest, flows through the city...
  
  
• Caldera, Chile
  Caldera, Chile
  Caldera is a port city in the Copiapó Province of the Atacama Region in northern Chile. It has an excellent harbor, protected by breakwaters, being the port city for the productive mining district centering on Copiapó to which it is connected by the first railroad constructed in Chile.-Geography...
  
  
• Calera, La
  La Calera, Chile
  La Calera is a city and commune in the Quillota Province of central Chile's fifth region of Valparaíso.-Geography:La Calera is located from Valparaíso, and from Santiago. Its area is...
  
  
• Cañete, Chile
• Castro, Chile
  Castro, Chile
  Castro is a city and commune in the Chilean island of Chiloé Island. Castro is the capital of the Chiloé Province in the Los Lagos Region. It is Chile's third oldest city in continued existence...
  
  
• Cerrillos, Chile
• Cerro Navia, Chile
• Chanco, Chile
• Chañaral, Chile
• Chile Chico, Chile
• Chillán, Chile
• La Cisterna, Chile
• Colbún, Chile
• Collipulli, Chile
• Concepción, Chile
  Concepción, Chile
  Concepción is a city in Chile, capital of Concepción Province and of the Biobío Region or Region VIII. Greater Concepción is the second-largest conurbation in the country, with 889,725 inhabitants...
  
  
• Conchalí, Chile
• Las Condes, Chile
• Constitución, Chile
  Constitución, Chile
  Constitución is a seaside resort, industrial city, minor port and commune in Chile, located in the Maule Region, Talca Province.-History:-8.8 magnitude 2010 earthquake:...
  
  
• Copiapó, Chile
• Coquimbo, Chile
• Coronel, Chile
• Coyhaique, Chile
• Curepto, Chile
• Curicó, Chile
• Dalcahue, Chile
• Empedrado, Chile
• Lo Espejo, Chile
• Estación Central
  Estación Central
  Estación Central is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its name comes from the Estación Central railway station located in the commune.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Florida, Chile
• Frutillar, Chile
• Gran Valparaíso, Chile
• La Granja, Chile
• Huechuraba, Chile
• Illapel, Chile
• Independencia, Chile
• Iquique, Chile
• La Serena, Chile
• Licantén, Chile
• Linares, Chile
  Linares, Chile
  Linares is a Chilean city and commune located in the Maule Region and lies in the fertile Chilean Central Valley, south of Santiago and south of Talca, the regional capital...
  
  
• Longaví, Chile
• Los Andes, Chile
  Los Andes, Chile
  Los Andes, founded in July 31, 1791 as Santa Rosa de Los Andes, is a Chilean city and commune located in the province of the same name, in Valparaíso Region...
  
  
• Los Ángeles, Chile
• Lota, Chile
  Lota, Chile
  Lota is a city and commune located in the center of the Chile on the Gulf of Arauco. It lies within the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region.-History:...
  
  
• Macul, Chile
• Maipú, Chile
• Maule, Chile
• Mejillones, Chile
• Mulchén, Chile
• Nirivilo, Chile
  Nirivilo, Chile
  Nirivilo is a hamlet in San Javier commune, in the Chilean province of Linares, Maule Region. It offers some remarkable examples of typical Chilean rural architecture. Its parish church dates from colonial times and is a National Monument....
  
  
• Ñuñoa, Chile
• Osorno, Chile
  Osorno, Chile
  Osorno is a city and commune in southern Chile and capital of Osorno Province in the Los Lagos Region. It had a population of 145,475, as of the 2002 census...
  
  
• Ovalle, Chile
  Ovalle, Chile
  Ovalle is a city in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, founded in 1831 as a settlement of more than 113,000 people. The name Ovalle was chosen to honor to Chile's vice-president José Tomás Ovalle...
  
  
• Parral, Chile
  Parral, Chile
  Parral is a city and commune and in the Linares Province of central Chile's seventh region of Maule.-History:Parral was founded in 1795 by the Viceroy of Peru, Ambrosio O'Higgins...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Chile
• Pelarco, Chile
• Pelluhue, Chile
• Pencahue, Chile
• Penco, Chile
• Peñalolén, Chile
• La Pintana, Chile
• Lo Prado, Chile
• Porvenir
• Providencia, Chile
  Providencia, Chile
  Providencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Part of Greater Santiago, it is bordered by the communes of Santiago to the west, Recoleta to the northwest, Las Condes and Vitacura to the northeast, La Reina to the east, and Ñuñoa to the south.In 2006...
  
  
• Pucón, Chile
• Pudahuel, Chile
• Puerto Aisén, Chile
• Puerto Montt, Chile
• Puerto Natales, Chile
• Puerto Varas, Chile
• Punta Arenas, Chile
  Punta Arenas, Chile
  Punta Arenas is a commune and the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena. The city was officially renamed Magallanes in 1927, but in 1938 it was changed back to Punta Arenas...
  
  
• Putre, Chile
• Quellón, Chile
• Quilicura, Chile
• Quillota, Chile
• Quilpué, Chile
  Quilpué, Chile
  Quilpué is a city and capital of the Marga Marga Province in central Chile's Valparaíso Region. It is part of the Greater Valparaíso metropolitan area...
  
  
• Quinta Normal, Chile
• Rancagua, Chile
• Rauco, Chile
• Recoleta, Chile
• La Reina, Chile
• Renaico, Chile
  Renaico, Chile
  Renaico is a city and commune forming part of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The city is located on the south bank of the Renaico River.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Renca, Chile
• Rengo, Chile
• Retiro, Chile
  Retiro, Chile
  Retiro is a town and commune in Chile, located in Linares Province, in the seventh region of Maule.-Geography:Retiro is located to the south of Santiago, to the south of the city of Linares , and 15 km to the north of the city of Parral...
  
  
• Romeral, Chile
• Río Claro, Chile
• Río Negro, Chile
  Río Negro, Chile
  Río Negro is a Chilean city and commune in Osorno Province, Los Lagos Region, 38 km to the south of Osorno and 6 km of 5 Route the South...
  
  
• Saavedra, Chile
• Sagrada Familia (Chile)
  Sagrada Familia (Chile)
  Sagrada Familia is a Chilean town and commune in Curicó Province, Maule Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Sagrada Familia spans an area of and has 17,519 inhabitants . Of these, 5,080 lived in urban areas and 12,439 in rural areas...
  
  
• San Carlos, Chile
  San Carlos, Chile
  San Carlos is the name of a city and commune of Ñuble Province in the Biobío Region of Chile.-Geography and agriculture:...
  
  
• San Clemente, Chile
  San Clemente, Chile
  San Clemente is a city and commune administered by the municipality of San Clemente, located in the Talca Province of Chile's Maule Region.-Demographics:...
  
  
• San Fabián de Alico
  San Fabián de Alico
  San Fabián de Alico is a town in San Fabián, Ñuble Province, Bío-Bío Region....
  
  
• San Fernando, Chile
  San Fernando, Chile
  San Fernando is the capital of the province of Colchagua, in central Chile, and the second most populated urban center of the O'Higgins Region. Located close to the Tinguiririca River in a fertile valley, San Fernando sits 1,112 feet above sea level...
  
  
• San Javier, Chile
  San Javier, Chile
  San Javier is a Chilean city and commune located in the Province of Linares, Maule Region. The city lies in the geographical center of the country, some south of Santiago, to the northwest of the provincial capital, Linares, and to the south of Talca, the regional capital...
  
  
• San Joaquín
  San Joaquín
  San Joaquín is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.The alcalde's office and municipal building is located at Ave...
  
  
• San Miguel (municipality)
  San Miguel (municipality)
  San Miguel is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on August 10, 1896.-Administration:...
  
  
• San Rafael, Chile
  San Rafael, Chile
  San Rafael is a town and commune of the Talca Province in the Maule Region of Chile. The town serves as the communal capital.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, San Rafael spans an area of and has 7,674 inhabitants . Of these, 3,482 lived in urban...
  
  
• San Ramón, Chile
• Santiago (municipality)
• Santo Domingo, Chile
  Santo Domingo, Chile
  Santo Domingo is an exclusive Chilean coastal city and commune in San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region. It was founded as Rocas de Santo Domingo .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Sewell, Chile
  Sewell, Chile
  Sewell is an uninhabited Chilean mining town located in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, on the slopes of the Andes, at an altitude between 2,000 and 2,250 metres. The town was founded in 1904 by the Braden Copper Co. to extract the copper in the El Teniente mine,...
  
  
• Talca
  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 . As of the 2002 census, the city had a population of 193,755....
  
  
• Talcahuano
  Talcahuano
  Talcahuano is a port city and commune in the Biobío Region of Chile. It is part of the Greater Concepción conurbation. Talcahuano is located in the south of the Central Zone of Chile.-Geography:...
  
  
• Temuco
  Temuco
  Temuco is a city and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The name comes from the Mapudungun language, meaning "temu water"; "temu" is a tree used by Mapuches for medicinal purposes. The city is located 670 km south of Santiago...
  
  
• Teno
  Teno
  Teno is a Chilean city and commune in the Curicó Province, Maule Region. A large percentage of inhabitants are of mestizo and Mapuche Indian origin...
  
  
• Tocopilla
  Tocopilla
  Tocopilla is a city and commune in the Antofagasta Region, in the north of Chile. It is the capital of the province that bears the same name.Tocopilla celebrates its anniversary on September 29 every year with a big show the day before, which includes a parade down the main street of the city, food...
  
  
• Valdivia (city)
• Vallenar
  Vallenar
  Vallenar is a city and commune in Atacama Region, Chile. It is the capital of the Huasco Province and is located in the valley of the Huasco River. Vallenar has 47,000 inhabitants. Its main activities are farming and mining...
  
  
• Valparaíso
  Valparaíso
  Valparaíso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere. The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region...
  
  
• Vichuquén
  Vichuquén
  Vichuquén is a commune in the Curicó Province of Chile's Maule Region.- History :The Spanish arrived along the Lico rivers in 1585, where settlements of the Mapuche and Inca already existed. In 1865, Vichuquén founded its capital of the village of the same name....
  
  
• Vicuña, Chile
  Vicuña, Chile
  Vicuña is a Chilean commune and city in Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, founded during the government of Bernardo O'Higgins to secure sovereignty over the Elqui Valley. The famous Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral was born there in 1889. It borders to the west with the communes of La Higuera, La...
  
  
• Villa Alegre, Chile
  Villa Alegre, Chile
  Villa Alegre a commune and city located in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile. With , Villa Alegre is the smallest commune by area in the Maule Region. It sits above sea level.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Villarrica, Chile
  Villarrica, Chile
  Villarrica is a city and commune in southern Chile located on the western shore of Villarrica Lake in the Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region south of Santiago and close to the Villarrica Volcano ski center to the south east. Residents of Villarrica are known as Villarriquences.Tourism, grain and...
  
  
• Viña del Mar
  Viña del Mar
  Viña del Mar , is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Its long stretches of white sandy beaches are a major attraction for national and international tourists. The city is Chile's main tourist attraction. Known as "La Ciudad Jardín" , Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located...
  
  
• Vitacura
  Vitacura
  Vitacura is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most expensive and fashionable areas of Santiago...
  
  
• Yerbas Buenas
  Yerbas Buenas
  Yerbas Buenas is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. It lies in the geographical center of the country, on the fertile central plain, some south of the national capital of Santiago, south of Talca, the regional capital and north of Linares, the provincial...
  
  

Santiago

• Santiago
  Santiago, Chile
  Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
  
  
• Lo Barnechea
  Lo Barnechea
  Lo Barnechea is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is home to some of Chile's fanciest neighborhoods comparable to Beverly Hills and River Oaks...
  
  
• Barrio Bellavista
  Barrio Bellavista
  Barrio Bellavista is an area that lies between the Mapocho River and San Cristóbal Hill in Santiago, Chile. It is known as Santiago's bohemian quarter, with new hip restaurants, boutiques, and avant-garde galleries occupying loft spaces and lordly mansions that punctuate tree-lined streets awash...
  
  
• Barrio Suecia
  Barrio Suecia
  Barrio Suecia is a section of Santiago, Chile, centered around Calle Suecia , in the upscale Providencia municipality, which includes many pubs, discos and restaurants...
  
  
• Battle of Santiago
  Battle of Santiago
  The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly unsavoury and infamous football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup. It was a game played between hosts Chile and Italy on June 2, 1962 in Santiago...
  
  
• Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda
  Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda
  Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda is a cultural facility located in Santiago, Chile, under the Citizenry Square, in the southern façade of the Palacio de La Moneda...
  
  
• Cerrillos (municipality)
  Cerrillos (municipality)
  Cerrillos is a census-designated commune of Chile in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation.-Administration:...
  
  
• Cerro Navia
  Cerro Navia
  Cerro Navia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most densely populated communes of Santiago, Chile.- History :...
  
  
• Cerro San Cristóbal
  Cerro San Cristóbal
  Cerro San Cristóbal is a hill in northern Santiago, Chile. It rises 880 m AMSL and about 300 m above the rest of Santiago; the peak is the second highest point in the city, after Cerro Renca. Its original indigenous name was Tupahue...
  
  
• Cerro Santa Lucía
  Cerro Santa Lucía
  Santa Lucía Hill is a small hill in the centre of Santiago, Chile. It borders on Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins in the south, Santa Lucía Street in the west and Victoria Subercaseaux on the east. An adjacent metro station is named for it. The hill has an altitude of 629 m and a height...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Palestino
  Club Deportivo Palestino
  Club Deportivo Palestino, is a professional football club based in the city of Santiago, Chile. The club was founded in 1920 and plays in the Primera División de Chile...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
  Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
  Club Deportivo Universidad Católica is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, which plays in the Primera División.Universidad Católica is one of the most successful and popular football clubs in Chile and considered one of the three "big teams"...
  
  
• Club de Deportes Santiago Morning
  Club de Deportes Santiago Morning
  Club de Deportes Santiago Morning is a Chilean professional football club based in Recoleta, Santiago. They compete in the Chilean Primera División since 1933, when the league was founded. Santiago Morning was one of the founding teams of the league...
  
  
• Colo-Colo
  Colo-Colo
  Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean football club based in the commune of Macul, Santiago. It competes in the Primera División, the top-flight football league in the country, from which they have never been relegated. Their home ground is the Estadio Monumental David Arellano.Colo-Colo...
  
  
• Conchalí
  Conchalí
  Conchalí is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a northwestern suburb of Santiago.-Demographics:...
  
  
• El Bosque (municipality, Chile)
  El Bosque (municipality, Chile)
  El Bosque is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The commune spans an area of .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Lo Espejo
  Lo Espejo
  Lo Espejo is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It has the country's largest population density.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Estación Central railway station
• Estación Central
  Estación Central, Chile
  Santiago Estación Central , located in Santiago, Chile, is the city's only operating train station after the decommissioning of the Estación Mapocho. The Estación Central is the initial departure point for all rail traffic bound for southern Chile...
  
  
• Estadio Monumental David Arellano
  Estadio Monumental David Arellano
  Estadio Monumental is a football stadium in Santiago, Chile. Completed in 1989, the stadium has a current spectator capacity of 45,000. Originally, the stadium could hold up to 65,000 spectators but that was dramatically reduced for security reasons...
  
  
• Estadio Nacional de Chile
  Estadio Nacional de Chile
  The Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago). It is the largest stadium in Chile with an official capacity of 47,000, and is part of a 62 ha sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a...
  
  
• Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
  Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
  Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo is a multi-purpose stadium, in Santiago, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportivo Universidad Católica...
  
  
• Estadio Santa Laura
  Estadio Santa Laura
  Estadio Santa Laura is a football stadium in Independencia, Santiago, Chile. It is the home stadium of Unión Española. The stadium holds 22,000 people and was built in 1922. It is a multi - use stadium , also used for concerts. It is rarely sold out for soccer matches and attendance is rarely...
  
  
• Estadio Santiago Bueras
  Estadio Santiago Bueras
  Estadio Santiago Bueras is a multi-use stadium in Maipu, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Magallanes. The stadium holds 5,000 people and was built in 1984....
  
  
• Estadio Víctor Jara
  Estadio Víctor Jara
  Estadio Víctor Jara is the name of the former Estadio Chile, or Chile Stadium, in Santiago, Chile. The multi-use sports complex was renamed as a memorial to folk singer Víctor Jara, who was killed there, during the Chilean coup of 1973. It has a total capacity for an audience of 4,500 persons...
  
  
• Ex Congreso Nacional
  Ex Congreso Nacional
  The Former National Congress Building is the former home of the Chilean Congress. Congress met in this building in central Santiago until Salvador Allende's socialist government was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet's military coup d'état on September 11, 1973.During the Pinochet dictatorship,...
  
  
• Huechuraba
  Huechuraba
  Huechuraba is a city and commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.Huechuraba has a mild mediterranean climate: relatively hot dry summers with temperatures reaching up to on the hottest days; winters are more humid, with typical maximum daily temperatures of ,...
  
  
• Independencia
  Independencia (municipality, Chile)
  Independencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Independencia spans an area of and has 65,479 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• La Cisterna
  La Cisterna
  La Cisterna is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on 30 May 1925.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Florida, Chile
• La Granja (municipality)
  La Granja (municipality)
  La Granja is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, La Granja spans an area of and has 132,520 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• La Pintana
  La Pintana
  La Pintana is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. La Pintana is home to Antumapu, the agricultural and veterinary sciences campus of University of Chile Chile's oldest university.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Las Condes
  Las Condes
  Las Condes is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid to high income families...
  
  
• Lo Prado
  Lo Prado
  Lo Prado is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Lo Prado spans an area of and has 104,316 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Macul
  Macul
  Macul is a commune of Chile located in the central-eastern part of Greater Santiago, bordered by the communes of Ñuñoa to the north, San Joaquín to the west, Peñalolén to the east and La Florida to the south....
  
  
• Maipú (municipality)
  Maipú (municipality)
  Maipú is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation. It was founded on February 16, 1821 and it is the place of the Battle of Maipú , where Chile's independence was consolidated...
  
  
• Mapocho River
  Mapocho River
  The Mapocho River flows from the Andes mountains onto the west and divides Chile's capital Santiago in two.-Course:...
  
  
• Ñuñoa
  Ñuñoa
  Ñuñoa is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its inhabitants are primarily a middle and upper-middle class....
  
  
• O'Higgins Park
  O'Higgins Park
  O'Higgins Park is Santiago, Chile's second largest public park . It is located in the center of the capital, in the Santiago Commune...
  
  
• Palacio de La Moneda
  Palacio de La Moneda
  Palacio de La Moneda , or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency and General Secretariat of the Government...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda (municipality)
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda (municipality)
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is named after President Pedro Aguirre Cerda.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Peñalolén
  Peñalolén
  Peñalolén is a Chilean commune in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on November 15, 1984.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Providencia (municipality, Chile)
  Providencia (municipality, Chile)
  Providencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Part of Greater Santiago, it is bordered by the communes of Santiago to the west, Recoleta to the northwest, Las Condes and Vitacura to the northeast, La Reina to the east, and Ñuñoa to the south.In 2006...
  
  
• Pudahuel
  Pudahuel
  Pudahuel is a census-designated commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Santiago's international airport Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez is located there...
  
  
• Quilicura
  Quilicura
  Quilicura founded in 1902, is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a satellite city on what was originally the outskirts of the city of Santiago, but as urban sprawl has set in it is now quickly urbanizing from what was recently prime agricultural land...
  
  
• Quinta Normal
  Quinta Normal
  Quinta Normal is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is named after a large park in the area.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Recoleta (municipality)
  Recoleta (municipality)
  Recoleta is a commune of Chile founded in the Pinochet's government, located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Reina
  La Reina
  La Reina is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was created in 1963 from an eastern portion of the Ñuñoa commune...
  
  
• Renca
  Renca
  Renca is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on May 6, 1894.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Renca spans an area of and has 133,518 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• San Joaquín
  San Joaquín
  San Joaquín is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.The alcalde's office and municipal building is located at Ave...
  
  
• San Miguel (municipality)
  San Miguel (municipality)
  San Miguel is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on August 10, 1896.-Administration:...
  
  
• San Ramón, Chile
• Sanhattan
  Sanhattan
  Sanhattan is a sarcastic name given to Chile's capital Santiago's high-end financial district...
  
  
• Santiago (municipality)
• Santiago Metro
  Santiago Metro
  Metro de Santiago is South America's most extensive metro system with 5 lines, 108 stations and 103 kilometres of track making it the second longest in Latin America after that of Mexico City. The metro system serves the city of Santiago, Chile. Three of the lines are rubber-tyred...
  
  
• Santiago Metropolitan Region
  Santiago Metropolitan Region
  Santiago Metropolitan Region or simply Metropolitan Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is the country's only landlocked administrative region and contains the nation's capital, Santiago...
  
  
• Torre Entel
  Torre Entel
  Torre Entel is the name of a 127.4 meter high TV and telecommunications tower in Santiago, Chile. Torre Entel has an observation deck open for visitors. Construction began in 1970 during Eduardo Frei Montalva term as president and it was inaugurated in 1974. In 1976 it carried its first...
  
  
• Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
  Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
  The Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences is a university specialized in Pedagogy and located in the commune of Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.-History:The university was created in 1889 as the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile...
  
  
• Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
  Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
  Metropolitan University of Technology is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad de Chile (football club)
  Universidad de Chile (football club)
  Club Universidad de Chile is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, which plays in the Primera División.The club was founded on May 24, 1927, as Club Deportivo Universitario. Universidad de Chile is the second most successful and popular football clubs in Chile, having won the...
  
  
• Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
  Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
  The University of the Andes is a private institution located at 2,200 San Carlos de Apoquindo Ave., Santiago, Chile. Along with 16 undergraduate programs, the University has a business school known as ESE, Business School...
  
  
• University of Santiago, Chile
  University of Santiago, Chile
  The University of Santiago of Chile is one of the oldest public universities in Chile.The institution was born as Escuela de Artes y Oficios in 1849, under the government of Manuel Bulnes...
  
  
• Universidad Catolica (football club)
• Unión Española
  Unión Española
  Club Unión Española S.A.D.P is a professional Chilean football based in Independencia, Santiago de Chile. Founded by a Spanish immigrants on 18 May 1897, Unión Española have participated in the top-tier of Chilean football for all of their existence but two seasons in the late '90s .Unión Española...
  
  
• Vitacura
  Vitacura
  Vitacura is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most expensive and fashionable areas of Santiago...
  
  

People from Santiago

• Ricardo Acuña
  Ricardo Acuña
  Ricardo Acuña is a former tennis player from Chile, who won three doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on March 17, 1986, when he reached 47th in the world....
  
  
• Xavier Castellà
• Jaime Fillol
  Jaime Fillol
  Jaime Fillol is a former tennis player from Chile. He played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s.Fillol was ranked as high as world number 14 in singles on the ATP Rankings and number 82 in doubles .In the Open era , Fillol won seven singles titles and 15 doubles titles...
  
  
• Fernando González
  Fernando González
  ----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
  
  
• Anita Lizana
  Anita Lizana
  Anita Lizana de Ellis was a World Number 1 tennis player from Chile. She was the first Latin American, and first Hispanic person, to be ranked World Number 1 tennis player. Also, Anita Lizana was the first Latin American to win a Grand Slam singles championship. She won the U.S...
  
  
• Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed El Chino and El zurdo de Vitacura , he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No...
  
  
• Horatio Sanz
  Horatio Sanz
  Horatio Sanz is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006. Sanz most recently starred alongside his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell in the Comedy Central series Big Lake.-Early life:Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in...
  
  
• Teresa of the Andes
• Andrés Zaldívar
  Andrés Zaldívar
  José Andrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín, popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar , is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.-Early years:...
  
  
• Iván Zamorano
  Iván Zamorano
  Iván Luis Zamorano Zamora is a retired Chilean football striker. Along with former world-class forward Marcelo Salas and former world player of the year Elias Figueroa he is regarded as one of Chile's most recognized footballers.He was a member of the Chilean national team and played in the 1998...
  
  

Towns in Chile

• Cerro Sombrero
• Colonia Dignidad
  Colonia Dignidad
  Villa Baviera , formerly known as Colonia Dignidad is a hamlet in Parral Commune, Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile. Located in an isolated area of central Chile, it lies 35 km southeast of the city of Parral, on the north bank of the Perquilauquén River. It was founded by a group of German...
  
  
• Curanipe
  Curanipe
  Curanipe is a town and seat of the municipality of Pelluhue, Province of Cauquenes, in VII Maule Region of Chile....
  
  
• Guanaqueros
  Guanaqueros
  Guanaqueros is a Chilean town in the commune of Coquimbo, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located 12 kilometers from Tongoy. It is a fishermen's cove, which spreads along the eastern rim of the Cerro Guanaqueros , and with its houses built facing to the north in the direction of the Pacific...
  
  
• Huara
  Huara
  Huara is a Chilean village and commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. It is located or northeast of Iquique. The village is crossed by the Pan-American Highway and is the crossing point for the road that goes to Oruro in Bolivia...
  
  
• Lican Ray
• Parral
  Parral, Chile
  Parral is a city and commune and in the Linares Province of central Chile's seventh region of Maule.-History:Parral was founded in 1795 by the Viceroy of Peru, Ambrosio O'Higgins...
  
  
• Pica, Chile
  Pica, Chile
  Pica is a Chilean town and commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. Situated in the inland of the Atacama Desert on an oasis, Pica is famous for its small and unusually acidic lemons. The town has a communal spring with a surface temperature of 40 °C, which makes it a popular bath place in...
  
  
• Pisco Elqui
  Pisco Elqui, Chile
  Pisco Elqui is a Chilean village in the commune of Paihuano, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located in the Elqui Valley, 107 km east from La Serena, at about 1,300 metres above sea level....
  
  
• Puerto Edén
• Puerto Williams
• Puerto Toro
  Puerto Toro
  Puerto Toro, founded 1892 by Governor of Punta Arenas Señoret is a hamlet on the eastern coast of Navarino Island, Chile.It belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region...
  
  
• Putagán
  Putagán
  Putagán is a village in the Chilean municipality of Villa Alegre, Province of Linares, Maule Region. Pop. 622. Altitude 112. Time zone UTC-4. Located 292 Kilometers south from Santiago...
  
  
• San Gregorio, Chile
  San Gregorio, Chile
  San Gregorio is Chilean town and commune located in northeast coast of the Strait of Magellan and is part of Magallanes Province and Region. The commune is administered by the municipality in Punta Delgada, the principal settlement. At the site of Primera Angostura, located within the commune, a...
  
  
• San Pedro de Atacama
  San Pedro de Atacama
  San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region. It is located east of Antofagasta, some 106 km southeast of Calama and the Chuquicamata copper mine, overlooking the Licancabur volcano. It features a significant archeological museum, the R. P...
  
  
• Tongoy
  Tongoy, Chile
  Tongoy is a Chilean coastal town in the commune of Coquimbo in Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located to the south of Chile's second oldest city, La Serena, next to the spa of Guanaqueros, on a rocky promontory opposite the Pacific Ocean, between the beaches of Socos and Grande , to the...
  
  
• Villa Las Estrellas
  Villa Las Estrellas
  Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean town in Antártica Commune, Antártica Province, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region. It is located on President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base, a military base, on King George Island. It is the biggest and one of only two civilian settlements on Antarctica...
  
  
• Villa Tehuelches
  Villa Tehuelches
  Villa Tehuelches is a Chilean village and capital of the commune of Laguna Blanca in the Magallanes Province, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region...
  
  

Communications in Chile

• Communications in Chile
  Communications in Chile
  The technical regulator of communications in Chile is the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications .-Telephone:*Main lines in use: 3.379 million...
  
  
• List of people on stamps of Chile
• .cl
  .cl
  .cl is the Internet country code top-level domain for Chile, and the Easter Islands. It is administered by the University of Chile. Registration of second-level domains under this TLD is open to anyone, however, foreign registrants must provide a domestic contact with a RUT, the Chilean national...
  
  
• Time in Chile
  Time in Chile
  Continental Chile is situated geographically in UTC−05.Currently, Chile uses 2 different UTC offsets at any given point in the calendar year. Since it practices daylight saving time, in total 4 time zones are used...
  
  

Chilean culture

• Culture of Chile
  Culture of Chile
  The culture of Chile is one of a relatively homogeneous society where historically its geographical isolation and remoteness has played a key role...
  
  
• Chamanto
  Chamanto
  thumb|right|250px|Chilean businessman and weapon scientist [[Carlos Cardoen]] wearing a chamanto and a [[chupalla]] sombreroA chamanto thumb|right|250px|Chilean businessman and weapon scientist [[Carlos Cardoen]] wearing a chamanto and a [[chupalla]] sombreroA chamanto thumb|right|250px|Chilean...
  
  
• Chilean rodeo
  Chilean rodeo
  Rodeo is a traditional sport in Chile. It was declared the national sport in 1962. It has since thrived, especially in the more rural areas of the country. Chilean rodeo is different from the rodeo found in North America...
  
  
• Cueca
  Cueca
  Cueca is a family of musical styles and associated dances from Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina. In Chile, the cueca holds the status of national dance, where it was officially selected on September 18, 1979.- Origins :...
  
  
• Huaso
  Huaso
  A huaso is a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to the Argentinian, Rio Grande do Sul's or Uruguayan gaucho, the American cowboy, the Australian stockman, and Mexican vaquero and charro. A female huaso is called a huasa, although the term china is far more commonly used for his wife...
  
  
• List of Chilean chess champions
• Public holidays in Chile
  Public holidays in Chile
  This is a list of public holidays in Chile; most of them are Christian holidays.-Dates for the year 2011:-History:...
  
  

Chilean artists

• Grupo Montparnasse
  Grupo Montparnasse
  The Grupo Montparnasse was an organization of Chilean artists who had joined the gathering of great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France, in the early part of the 20th century...
  
  
• Máximo Carvajal
  Máximo Carvajal
  Máximo Gorky Carvajal Belmar was a Chilean comic book artist.Carvajal was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He studied fine arts in Viña del Mar, later moving to Santiago to study applied arts. Carvajal worked in Chilean comics for nearly 50 years, creating the characters Dr. Mortis and Black...
  
  
• Felipe Barral Momberg

Chilean mythology

• City of the Caesars
  City of the Caesars
  The City of the Caesars , also variously known as City of the Patagonia, Wandering City, Trapalanda or Trapananda, Lin Lin or Elelín, is a mythical city of South America. It is supposedly located somewhere in Patagonia, in some valley of the Andes between Chile and Argentina...
  
  

Rapa Nui mythology

• Hotu Matu'a
  Hotu Matu'a
  Hotu Matu'a was the legendary first settler and ariki mau of Easter Island. Hotu Matu'a and his two canoe colonising party were Polynesians from the now unknown land of Hiva...
  
  
• Makemake (mythology)
  Makemake (mythology)
  Makemake in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island, was the creator of humanity, the god of fertility and the chief god of the "Tangata manu" or bird-man cult .He is a frequent subject of the island's Petroglyphs.-In Astronomy:The trans-Neptunian...
  
  
• Manutara
• Moai
  Moai
  Moai , or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the...
  
  
• Motu Nui
  Motu Nui
  Motu Nui is the largest of three islets just south of Easter Island and is the most westerly place in Chile. All three islets have sea birds but Motu Nui was also an essential location for the Tangata manu cult which was the island religion between the moai era and the Christian times...
  
  
• Rongorongo
  Rongorongo
  Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. It cannot be read despite numerous attempts at decipherment. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, not even...
  
  
• Tangata manu
  Tangata manu
  The Tangata manu , was the winner of a traditional competition on Rapa Nui . The ritual was an annual competition to collect the first Sooty Tern egg of the season from the islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui and climb the sea cliff of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.-Myth:In the...
  
  

Chilean national symbols

• Coat of arms of Chile
  Coat of arms of Chile
  The coat of arms of Chile dates from 1834 and was designed by the English artist Charles Wood Taylor. It is made up by a figurative background divided in two equal parts: the top one is blue and the bottom, red. A five pointed white star is in the centre of the shield...
  
  
• Flag of Chile
  Flag of Chile
  The national flag of Chile, consists of two unequal horizontal bands of white and red and a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center. It was adopted on October 18, 1817...
  
  
• National Anthem of Chile
  Himno Nacional de Chile
  The National Anthem of Chile is also known as Canción Nacional . It has a history of two lyrics and two melodies that made up three different versions...
  
  

Chilean actors

• Maurice Villa-Lobos (USAEA stage-name)
• Antonio Prieto
• Cecilia Amenábar
  Cecilia Amenábar
  María Cecilia Amenábar Granella is a Chilean actress, model and artist.After a successful career in modeling, Amenábar along model Daniela Benavente, hosted Revolver, a cultural television program for TVN...
  
  
• Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras is a well-known Chilean-Argentine film actor.-Life and work:Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter...
  
  
• Cristián de la Fuente
  Cristián de la Fuente
  Cristián de la Fuente Sabarots is a Chilean-American actor.-Early life:De la Fuente was born in Santiago, Chile, as the only child of chemist Hugo de la Fuente and Adriana Sabarots, a homemaker of French descent...
  
  
• Christina Montt
  Christina Montt
  Cristina Montt , was a Chilean film star of silent and early sound films.-Early life:She was born in Chile in 1895 into the well-known, political Montt family. Her granduncle, Manuel Montt, was twice president of Chile...
  
  
• Leonor Varela
  Leonor Varela
  Leonor Varela Palma is a Chilean actress, and model. She played the character Cleopatra in the 1999 film Cleopatra...
  
  
• Valentina Vargas
  Valentina Vargas
  Valentina Vargas is a Chilean-born actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised.-Biography:...
  
  

Chilean film directors

• Alejandro Amenábar
  Alejandro Amenábar
  Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Spanish- Chilean film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth...
  
  
• Diego Barros
• Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
  
  
• Juan Downey
  Juan Downey
  - Biography :Juan Downey was born in Santiago, Chile. His father David Downey V. was a distinguished architect in Chile and following in his father’s footsteps Juan Downey studied and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile...
  
  
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
  
  
• Gonzalo Lira
  Gonzalo Lira
  Gonzalo Lira is an American novelist, filmmaker and economic blogger born in Burbank, CaliforniaHe is the son of Gonzalo Lira Valdés and María Isabel López Hess; he is a descendant of José Miguel Carrera,. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, New York City, and Miami, as well as Guayaquil,...
  
  
• Miguel Littin
  Miguel Littin
  Miguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides....
  
  
• Raoul Ruiz
  Raoul Ruiz
  Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was a Chilean filmmaker.Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival...
  
  

Chilean cuisine

See also Chilean cuisine

• Cuisine of Chile
  Cuisine of Chile
  Chilean cuisine stems mainly from the combination of Spanish cuisine with traditional Chilean ingredients, with later influences from other European cuisines, particularly from Germany, Italy, Croatia, France and the Middle East. The food tradition and recipes in Chile stand out due to the...
  
  
• Anticuchos
  Anticuchos
  Anticuchos are popular and inexpensive dishes that originated in Peru, and popular also in other Andean states consisting of small pieces of grilled skewered meat....
  
  
• Asado
  Asado
  Asado is a term used both for a range of barbecue techniques and the social event of having or attending a barbecue in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and southern Brazil. In the former countries asado is also the standard word for barbecue. An asado usually consists of beef alongside various...
  
  
• Cazuela
  Cazuela
  Cazuela is the common name given to a variety of dishes, specially from South America. It receives its name from the cazuela in which is cooked...
  
  
• Charquican
  Charquican
  Charquekán is a Chilean dish, containing potatoes, minced meat, pumpkin, white corn, onion and sometimes peas. Charquekán is dry llama meat . This way of preserving meat made it possible for ancient cultures to store food. Today Charquecán Orureño is one of the most famous ways to prepare this meat...
  
  
• Churrasco
  Churrasco
  Churrasco is a Portuguese and Spanish term referring to beef or grilled meat more generally, differing across Latin America and Europe, but a prominent feature in the cuisines of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and other Latin American countries...
  
  
• Curanto
  Curanto
  Curanto is a traditional food of Chiloé Archipelago that has spread to the southern areas of Chile and recently Argentina. It is traditionally prepared in a hole, about a meter and a half deep, which is dug in the ground...
  
  
• Empanada
  Empanada
  An empanada is a stuffed bread or pastry baked or fried in many countries in Latin America, Southern Europe and parts of Southeast Asia. The name comes from the verb empanar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread. Empanada is made by folding a dough or bread patty around the stuffing...
  
  
• Humita
  Humita
  Humita is a Native American dish from pre-Hispanic times, and a traditional food in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. It consists of masa harina and corn, slowly cooked in oil....
  
  
• Manjar Blanco
  Manjar Blanco
  Manjar blanco is a term used to refer to a variety of delicacies in the Spanish-speaking world. In Spain the term refers to blancmange, a European delicacy found in various parts of the continent as well as the United Kingdom. In the Americas it refers to a sweet, white spread or pastry filling...
  
  
• Sopaipilla
  Sopaipilla
  A sopaipilla, sopapilla, sopaipa, or cachanga is a kind of fried pastry and a type of quick bread served in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, northern Mexico, New Mexico, Peru, Texas, and Uruguay. The word sopaipilla is the diminutive of sopaipa, a word that entered Spanish from the Mozarabic language of...
  
  

Chilean wine

• Chilean wine
  Chilean wine
  Chilean wine is wine made in the South American country of Chile. The region has a long viticultural history for a New World wine region dating to the 16th century when the Spanish conquistadors brought Vitis vinifera vines with them as they colonized the region. In the mid-19th century, French...
  
  
• Carmenère
  Carmenère
  The Carménère grape is a wine grape variety originally planted in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, France, where it was used to produce deep red wines and occasionally used for blending purposes in the same manner as Petit Verdot....
  
  
• Melchor de Concha y Toro
  Melchor de Concha y Toro
  Melchor de Concha y Toro Businessman, lawyer, Chilean politician and Marquis of Casa Concha by the Spanish Crown....
  
  
• Concha y Toro Winery

Languages of Chile

• Ayacucho Quechua
  Ayacucho Quechua
  Ayacucho is one dialect of the Quechua language, spoken in the Ayacucho region of Peru, as well as by immigrants from Ayacucho in Lima. With roughly a million speakers, it is one of the largest dialects of the language along with Cusco Quechua...
  
  
• Huillice language
  Huillice language
  The Huilliche language is an Araucanian language spoken by about 2,000 ethnic Huilliche people in Chile. It is spoken in an area south of the area inhabited by the Mapuche, in the nation's Los Lagos and Los Ríos regions; and mountain valleys, between the city of Valdivia and south toward Chiloé...
  
  
• Kawésqar language
  Kawésqar language
  Kawésqar is an Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally there were several distinct dialects...
  
  
• Mapudungun
  Mapudungun
  The Mapuche language, Mapudungun is a language isolate spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche people. It is also spelled Mapuzugun and sometimes called Mapudungu or Araucanian...
  
  
• Ona language
  Ona language
  Ona , also known as Selk'nam , is a language that was once spoken by the Selknam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America. there were 1-3 speakers left. 2000 estimates place it as "probably extinct."...
  
  
• Quechua
• Rapa Nui language
  Rapa Nui language
  Rapa Nui , also known as Pascuan or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island....
  
  
• Spanish language
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  
• Tsesungun language
  Tsesungun language
  Tsesungún is a dialect of Huilliche, an Araucanian language spoken in Chile. Most of its speakers speak Spanish as their first language. It is closely related but barely intelligible to Mapudungun speakers....
  
  
• Yaghan language
  Yaghan language
  Yagán , also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people...
  
  

Indigenous languages of the South American Cone

• Kawésqar language
  Kawésqar language
  Kawésqar is an Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally there were several distinct dialects...
  
  
• Puelche
  Puelche
  Puelche is the name that the Mapuche used to give the ethnic groups who inhabited the lands to the east of the Andes Mountains including the northern Tehuelches and Hets, these last ones were also known as the Pampas or Querandíes...
  
  
• Saraveca
• Yaghan language
  Yaghan language
  Yagán , also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people...
  
  

Chilean literature

• The House of the Spirits
  The House of the Spirits
  The House of the Spirits is the debut novel by Isabel Allende. Initially, the novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers, but became an instant best seller when published in Barcelona in 1982. The novel was critically acclaimed around the world, and catapulted Allende to literary...
  
  
• La Araucana
  La Araucana
  La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad...
  
  
• Papelucho
  Papelucho
  Papelucho is the main character in a series of children books created by Chilean writer Marcela Paz. Twelve books were published between 1947 and 1974. They became a classic among books for children in Chile....
  
  
• Tomáh Errázurih
  Tomáh Errázurih
  Tomáh Errázurih is a highly idiosyncratic, experimental Spanish language novel written by the American writer and filmmaker Gonzalo Lira....
  
  

Chilean writers

• Isabel Allende
  Isabel Allende
  Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
  
  
• Miguel Arteche
  Miguel Arteche
  Miguel Salinas Arteche, best known as Miguel Arteche, the name he adopted after legally reversing his maternal and paternal surnames in 1972. He was born in Nueva Imperial, Cautín, 9th Region, on June 4, 1926. He spent most of his adult life in Santiago, Chile serving in academics, but was also...
  
  
• Sergio Badilla Castillo
  Sergio Badilla Castillo
  Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...
  
  
• Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores was a Chilean poet, writer, and journalist.-Works:*Israel *Tercer mundo *Las cadenas vienen de lejos*Cuaderno de la Madre y del Nino...
  
  
• Eduardo Barrios
  Eduardo Barrios
  - Overview :After his father’s death, at the age of 5 his family moved to Lima until the age of 15 where he was the victim of harassment by his classmates. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood...
  
  
• Gregorio Billikopf
  Gregorio Billikopf
  Gregorio Billikopf is a mediator, author, and since 1981, a farm advisor specializing in labor management for the University of California, Davis. In May, 2005, Billikopf accepted a visiting faculty appointment as a professor of agricultural labor management at the University of Chile in Santiago...
  
  
• Alberto Blest Gana
  Alberto Blest Gana
  Alberto Blest Gana was a Chilean novelist and diplomat, considered the father of Chilean novel. Blest Gana was of Irish and Basque descent....
  
  
• Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes...
  
  
• María Luisa Bombal
  María Luisa Bombal
  María Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean author. Daughter of Martín Bombal Videla and Blanca Anthes Precht...
  
  
• Roberto Castillo
  Roberto Castillo
  Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean author. who currently teaches Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA...
  
  
• Jaime Collyer
  Jaime Collyer
  Jaime Collyer is a Chilean writer, born in Santiago, Chile in 1955 who became part of a generation of writers known as the "Nueva narrativa chilena" or the New Chilean Narrative...
  
  
• Francisco Coloane
  Francisco Coloane
  Francisco Coloane Cárdenas was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages...
  
  
• Trini Decombe
• José Donoso
  José Donoso
  José Donoso Yáñez was a Chilean writer. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and mainly Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he claimed his exile was also a form of...
  
  
• Ariel Dorfman
  Ariel Dorfman
  Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
  
  
• Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards Valdés is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Diamela Eltit
  Diamela Eltit
  Diamela Eltit is a writer and a Spanish professor from Chile. She currently holds a teaching appointment at New York University, where she teaches creative writing....
  
  
• Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet de Goyeneche is a popular Chilean writer, journalist, film critic and film director who rose to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative. Although he was born in Santiago, he spent his first 13 years of life in Encino, California...
  
  
• Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées El Jefe was a Chilean political figure and author.Born in Santiago of a German mother. He was ideologically influenced by Oswald Spengler...
  
  
• Brenda Hughes
• Gonzalo Lira
  Gonzalo Lira
  Gonzalo Lira is an American novelist, filmmaker and economic blogger born in Burbank, CaliforniaHe is the son of Gonzalo Lira Valdés and María Isabel López Hess; he is a descendant of José Miguel Carrera,. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, New York City, and Miami, as well as Guayaquil,...
  
  
• José Toribio Medina
  José Toribio Medina
  José Toribio Medina Zavala was a Chilean bibliographer, prolific writer, and historian. He was of Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945...
  
  
• Hernán Neira
  Hernán Neira
  Hernán Neiro is a professor and writer born in Lima. He studied philosophy in Lima Peru. He has published the stories A golpes de hacha y fuego, the novels El sueño inconcluso, El naufragio de la luz, and the essays El espejo de olvido and La ciudad y las palabras. He is also the author of...
  
  
• Carlos Pezoa Véliz
  Carlos Pezoa Véliz
  Carlos Pezoa Véliz was a poet, educator and journalist from Chile. His literary work remained largely unpublished until his death at the young age of 29...
  
  
• Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro was a Chilean poet. His work is part of the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the twentieth century.- Biography :...
  
  
• Luis Sepúlveda
  Luis Sepúlveda
  Luis Sepúlveda is a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist.- Life :Luis Sepùlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province...
  
  
• Miguel Serrano
  Miguel Serrano
  Miguel Serrano was a Chilean diplomat, explorer and author of poetry, books on spiritual questing and Esoteric Nazism...
  
  
• Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva Endeiza was a Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer. Victor Silva was of Basque descent by mother's side....
  
  
• Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia....
  
  
• Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia Blondel, also known as Jorge Urrutia Blondel, , was a Chilean composer, educator and writer, born in 1905. He has composed ballet music, symphonic poems, and works for piano and for voice...
  
  
• Matilde Urrutia
  Matilde Urrutia
  Matilde Urrutia was the third wife of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, from 1966 until his death in 1973. They met in Santiago in 1946. Urrutia was the inspiration behind Neruda's work 100 Love Sonnets which includes a beautiful dedication to her...
  
  

Chilean music

• Music of Chile
  Music of Chile
  The music of Chile ranges from folkloric music, popular music and also to classical music.-Folk music:Chile has a very rich folklore music that has three different continental geographical zones: northern, central, and southern, each with their own characteristics and sounds. Also it has other...
  
  
• Chilean rock
  Chilean rock
  Chilean rock music comes from many decades of evolving musical styles, many of the later conceived artists in the 80's and 90's are highly influenced by artists such as folk musicians Victor Jara and Violeta Parra...
  
  
• El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (album)
  El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (album)
  El derecho de vivir en paz is an album by Víctor Jara released in 1971.-Track listing:All songs written by Víctor Jara except where indicated.# "El derecho de vivir en paz" [The right to live in peace] – 4:34...
  
  
• Music of Easter Island
  Music of Easter Island
  Easter Island is located in the Pacific Ocean. Though its earliest inhabitants are ethnically Polynesian, the island is part of the South American state of Chile.-History:...
  
  
• Nueva canción
  Nueva canción
  Nueva canción is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music...
  
  
• Piedra roja
  Piedra roja
  Piedra Roja was a music festival.Following the success of Woodstock, a similar music festival was held in Chile between the 10 and 12 of October 1970 in the oriental area of Santiago. Among others, the following bands performed in the festival: Aguaturbia, Los Blops, Lágrima Seca and Los Jaivas...
  
  

Nueva canción

• Nueva canción
  Nueva canción
  Nueva canción is a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music...
  
  
• Basta (album)
  Basta (album)
  Basta is an album that was released by Quilapayún in 1969. It brings together an eclectic and diverse collections of popular/folk songs and anthems from different parts of the World: from across Latin America, the former USSR, and Italy...
  
  
• El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (album)
  El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (album)
  El derecho de vivir en paz is an album by Víctor Jara released in 1971.-Track listing:All songs written by Víctor Jara except where indicated.# "El derecho de vivir en paz" [The right to live in peace] – 4:34...
  
  
• El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
  El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
  "¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!" is one of the most internationally renowned songs of the Nueva Cancion Chilena movement. The music of the song was composed by Sergio Ortega and the text written by Quilapayún...
  
  
• La Población (album)
  La Población (album)
  La Población is a music album recorded by Víctor Jara and released in 1972 and reissued in 2001. It was recorded in homage of the struggle of people living in the poorest working class districts of Santiago de Chile, sometimes referred to as “shanty towns”. The album included the collaborative...
  
  
• Manifiesto (album)
  Manifiesto (album)
  Manifiesto was the incomplete music album recorded by Víctor Jara before he was murdered in 1973. It was intended for release in 1974, it was however released posthumously that year in Europe with numerous earlier songs added to complete the album....
  
  
• Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas (album)
  Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas (album)
  Pongo en tus manos abiertas is an album recorded by Víctor Jara with the musicians from Quilapayún in June, 1969...
  
  
• Víctor Jara (album)
  Víctor Jara (album)
  Víctor Jara is an album released by Víctor Jara in 1967, it was subsequently released under the name of Desde longuén hasta siempre with a variation of different covers....
  
  

Nueva canción musicians

• Eduardo Alquinta
  Eduardo Alquinta
  Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta was a singer in the folk group Los Jaivas, Chile's longest-surviving group. He died of a heart attack while on vacation in Coquimbo, Chile....
  
  
• Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 to 1989....
  
  
• Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti is a well known Chilean singer-songwriter in the tradition of Nueva Canción and Nueva Trova. His best known song is "Los Momentos" , originally recorded in 1970 by Gatti when he was a member of the band Los Blops....
  
  
• Illapu
  Illapu
  Illapu , are a Chilean folk and andean musical ensemble that was formed in 1971 in Antofagasta, in northern Chile, by the brothers José Miguel, Jaime, Andrés and Roberto Márquez Bugueño. A later addition to the group was Osvaldo Torres. Illapu comes from the Quechua word meaning "Lightning Bolt"....
  
  
• Inti-Illimani
  Inti-Illimani
  Inti-Illimani is an instrumental and vocal Latin American folk music ensemble from Chile. The group was formed in 1967 by a group of university students and it acquired widespread popularity in Chile for their song Venceremos which became the anthem of the Popular Unity government of Salvador...
  
  
• Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
  
  
• Los Jaivas
  Los Jaivas
  Los Jaivas are a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, and progressive rock styles.-History:Los Jaivas appeared in Chilean music in 1963 as a progressive-rock-andino group, mixing rock with South American ancestral music...
  
  
• Guillermo "Willy" Oddó
• Sergio Ortega
  Sergio Ortega
  Sergio Ortega was a Chilean composer and pianist.- Biography :Ortega was born in Antofagasta, Chile. He studied composition with Roberto Falabella and with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt in the National Conservatory at the Universidad de Chile...
  
  
• Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada Lillo is a Chilean musician, composer, engineer and anthropologist. Parada joined Quilapayún in 1968, which made the group into a sextet - the formation which recorded the “Cantata Santa María de Iquique. Upon joining the group he became the major solo voice of the ensemble Rodolfo...
  
  
• Violeta Parra
  Violeta Parra
  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...
  
  
• Quilapayún
  Quilapayún
  Quilapayún are an instrumental and vocal folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential exponents of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement. Formed in Chile during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution that occurred in the popular music of the...
  
  

Chilean musicians

• Pablo Salvador Naranjo-Golborne

Chilean composers

• Luis Advis
  Luis Advis
  Luis Advis Vitaglich was a Chilean professor of philosophy, and a noted composer of traditional and New Chilean music. He was officially recognized as a Fundamental Figure of Chilean Music in 2003.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt was a Chilean composer.Becerra-Schmidt lived in Germany since 1973 and taught at Oldenburg University since 1974. Becerra was the most prolific Chilean composer...
  
  
• Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado...
  
  
• Juan Orrego-Salas
  Juan Orrego-Salas
  Juan Antonio Orrego Salas is a Chilean composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.He was a student of Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland in the United States, and later he settled in that country in the early 1960s to work at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Latin...
  
  
• Sergio Ortega
  Sergio Ortega
  Sergio Ortega was a Chilean composer and pianist.- Biography :Ortega was born in Antofagasta, Chile. He studied composition with Roberto Falabella and with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt in the National Conservatory at the Universidad de Chile...
  
  
• Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Washington Peña Hen was a Chilean composer and an academic at the University of Chile. He was murdered by the Caravan of Death.-Works:...
  
  
• Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia Blondel, also known as Jorge Urrutia Blondel, , was a Chilean composer, educator and writer, born in 1905. He has composed ballet music, symphonic poems, and works for piano and for voice...
  
  

Chilean singers

• German Casas
  German Casas
  -Brief bio:German Casas became famous during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of his songs hit Chilean airwaves and television, making him a household name all over his native country. He was one of Chile's best known rock and roll and twist musicians of the era...
  
  
• Claudio Narea
  Claudio Narea
  Claudio Narea is a Chilean rock musician, singer, and songwriter who is best known as the guitarist and back-up vocalist of the Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros from 1982–1989 and from 2000-2003....
  
  

Chilean classical singers

• Tito Beltrán
  Tito Beltrán
  Ernesto Beltrán Aguilar better known as Tito Beltrán , is a Chilean-Swedish tenor. In October 2008, an appellate court in Sweden sentenced Beltrán to 2.5 years in prison for rape and sexual molestation of an underage child...
  
  
• Ramón Vinay
  Ramón Vinay
  Ramón Vinay was a famous Chilean operatic tenor with a powerful, dramatic voice. He is probably best remembered for his appearances in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera Otello....
  
  
• Clorinda Corradi
  Clorinda Corradi
  Clorinda Corradi was an Italian opera singer and one of the most famous contraltos in history.-Life:...
  
  

Chilean folk singers

• Eduardo Alquinta
  Eduardo Alquinta
  Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta was a singer in the folk group Los Jaivas, Chile's longest-surviving group. He died of a heart attack while on vacation in Coquimbo, Chile....
  
  
• Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 to 1989....
  
  
• Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti is a well known Chilean singer-songwriter in the tradition of Nueva Canción and Nueva Trova. His best known song is "Los Momentos" , originally recorded in 1970 by Gatti when he was a member of the band Los Blops....
  
  
• Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
  
  
• Margot Loyola
  Margot Loyola
  Margot Loyola Palacios is a musician, folk singer and researcher of the folklore of Chile and Latin America in general.Loyola has been active as a musician and musical ethnographer/anthropologist for many decades...
  
  
• Mario Mutis
  Mario Mutis
  Mario Mutis is the bass player in the Chilean progressive rock-folk band Los Jaivas.- References :...
  
  
• Guillermo "Willy" Oddó
• Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada Lillo is a Chilean musician, composer, engineer and anthropologist. Parada joined Quilapayún in 1968, which made the group into a sextet - the formation which recorded the “Cantata Santa María de Iquique. Upon joining the group he became the major solo voice of the ensemble Rodolfo...
  
  
• Parra family
  Parra family
  The Parra family is a Chilean family known for its many artists. Members of the Parra family are noted contributors to Chilean culture with almost every member being a distinguished national artist. The family is not related to the Parra brothers, members of the Chilean rock fusion group Los...
  
  
• Claudio Parra
• Eduardo Parra
  Eduardo Parra
  Eduardo Parra is a member of the Chilean rock fusion band Los Jaivas. He is the oldest of the Parra brothers . Eduardo plays the keyboards and some percussion instruments.-Poetry:He wrote several poetry books, including:*La Puerta Giratoria.Ediciones Rivera Scott...
  
  
• Gabriel Parra
  Gabriel Parra
  Gabriel Parra was the former drummer of Chilean folk group "Los Jaivas". He died in a crash in Peru in 1988. His daughter Juanita Parra replaced him as drummer in Los Jaivas after his death....
  
  
• Violeta Parra
  Violeta Parra
  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...
  
  

Chilean popular singers

• Tom Araya
  Tom Araya
  Tom Araya is a Chilean musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer...
  
  
• Daniela Castillo
  Daniela Castillo
  Daniela Castillo Vicuña is a Chilean female pop singer and actress born in Santiago. She debuted in 2002 as a solo artist on the Chilean TV show Rojo: Fama Contra Fama. She studied four years at the Alicia Puccio Academy where she met the casting crew for the TV show Rojo...
  
  
• Nicole
• Beto Cuevas
  Beto Cuevas
  Luis Alberto "Beto" Cuevas Olmedo is the former lead singer of the now-defunct Chilean rock band, La Ley. He grew up in Montréal, Quebec, and is fluent in French, English, and Spanish. He was born in Santiago, Chile, and now resides in Los Angeles and is pursuing a solo career.-Biography:His...
  
  
• Lucho Gatica
  Lucho Gatica
  Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, better known as Lucho Gatica, is a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host. It is estimated that Gatica has released more than 90 recordings. He has toured a vast portion of the world, having made concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Colombina Parra
  Colombina Parra
  Colombina Parra is a Chilean musician and singer. She was part of the Chilean grunge/alternative rock scene in the 1990s. Her band, Ex, were well known in Latin America when their first album came out with singles like "Sacar la Basura", "La Corbata de mi Tío" and "Vendo Diario" in 1996.Parra is...
  
  
• Javiera Parra
  Javiera Parra
  Javiera Cereceda Orrego , better known as Javiera Parra, is a Chilean musician and singer born in Santiago. She is the lead singer of rock band Javiera y Los Imposibles. A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, known for its many musicians, she is the granddaughter of famous Chilean...
  
  
• Alejandro Silva
  Alejandro Silva
  For the Chilean long-distance runner with the same name see Alejandro Silva Alejandro Silva is a Chilean instrumental heavy metal guitarist, best known as the founder and lead guitarist of his band, Alejandro Silva Power Cuarteto....
  
  

Chilean musical groups

• Chilean rock
  Chilean rock
  Chilean rock music comes from many decades of evolving musical styles, many of the later conceived artists in the 80's and 90's are highly influenced by artists such as folk musicians Victor Jara and Violeta Parra...
  
  
• Gondwana (Chilean band)
• Hetroertzen
  Hetroertzen
  Hetroertzen is a band from Puerto Varas, Chile. The current line-up is Kæffel on drums, bass and vociferations & Åskväder on guitars.-Discography:"Flying Across the Misty Gardens"...
  
  
• Illapu
  Illapu
  Illapu , are a Chilean folk and andean musical ensemble that was formed in 1971 in Antofagasta, in northern Chile, by the brothers José Miguel, Jaime, Andrés and Roberto Márquez Bugueño. A later addition to the group was Osvaldo Torres. Illapu comes from the Quechua word meaning "Lightning Bolt"....
  
  
• Inti-Illimani
  Inti-Illimani
  Inti-Illimani is an instrumental and vocal Latin American folk music ensemble from Chile. The group was formed in 1967 by a group of university students and it acquired widespread popularity in Chile for their song Venceremos which became the anthem of the Popular Unity government of Salvador...
  
  
• Kudai
  Kudai
  Kudai was a Latin Grammy Award-Nominated Chilean pop group was founded in Santiago, Chile. Its original members were Tomás Cañas Manzi, Pablo Holman Concha, Nicole Natalino and Bárbara Sepúlveda Labra. In 2006 Nicole Natalino left the group citing personal reasons, and was replaced by Ecuadorian...
  
  
• La Ley (band)
  La Ley (band)
  La Ley was a Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Chilean pop rock band formed by Andrés Bobe and Rodrigo Aboitiz with Mauricio Claveria, Beto Cuevas and Luciano Rojas. After a failed first album, Desiertos , they released Doble Opuesto , which appears as the official first album...
  
  
• Lesbos in love
  Lesbos in love
  Lesbos in Love , is a Chilean band formed in Santiago by Jazmin Avendaño and Tonko Yutronic.-Biography:Lesbos In Love formed in 2000 in Santiago, Chile as a duo whose members came from different bands...
  
  
• Los Jaivas
  Los Jaivas
  Los Jaivas are a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, and progressive rock styles.-History:Los Jaivas appeared in Chilean music in 1963 as a progressive-rock-andino group, mixing rock with South American ancestral music...
  
  
• Los Miserables
  Los Miserables
  Los Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary...
  
  
• Los Prisioneros
  Los Prisioneros
  Los Prisioneros was a chilean rock band formed in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1982. They began as a local band during the early 1980s, playing small shows in their neighborhood and high school...
  
  
• Los Tetas
  Los Tetas
  Los Tetas was a Chilean Funk band formed in 1995 by four musicians: Pepino , Rulo , C-Funk and Tea Time ....
  
  
• Los Tres
  Los Tres
  Los Tres is a Chilean rock band composed of four members: a rock/folk singer and three jazzmen. It was one of the noted bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La Ley and Lucybell....
  
  
• Lucybell
  Lucybell
  Lucybell is a Chilean rock band formed by four students from the Universidad de Chile's Faculty of Art in 1991, in Santiago de Chile. The original four members were:* Francisco González: drums, bass, percussion, keyboards...
  
  
• Pyros
• Quilapayún
  Quilapayún
  Quilapayún are an instrumental and vocal folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential exponents of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement. Formed in Chile during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution that occurred in the popular music of the...
  
  
• Sol y Lluvia
  Sol y Lluvia
  Sol y Lluvia is a Chilean musical ensemble, formed in the 1980s that became popular as a result not only of its music, but also because of its firm opposition to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The band is most famous for songs such as "En Un Largo Tour" , "Voy a Hacer el Amor" , and "Adios...
  
  
• Vigilante (band)
  Vigilante (band)
  Vigilante is a Chilean aggrotech/Industrial Metal band formed in 2005.-History:Ivan Munoz, aka Vigilante, is an industrial artist in South America...
  
  

Economy of Chile

• Economy of Chile
  Economy of Chile
  The economy of Chile is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank, and is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, leading Latin American nations in human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, economic freedom, and low perception of...
  
  
• Chile under Pinochet
  Chile under Pinochet
  Chile was ruled by a military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 when Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'etat until 1990 when the Chilean transition to democracy began. The authoritarian military government was characterized by systematic suppression of political parties and...
  
  
• Economic history of Chile
  Economic history of Chile
  The economy of Chile has shifted substantially over time from the subsistence agriculture practised by its indigenous peoples to an early husbandry-oriented economy and finally to one of mining and agriculture. Chile started to industrialize in the 1930s with the creation of CORFO that established...
  
  
• Chilean escudo
  Chilean escudo
  The escudo was the currency of Chile between 1960 and 1975, divided into 100 centésimos. It replaced the peso at a rate of 1 escudo = 1000 pesos and was itself replaced by a new peso, at a rate of 1 peso = 1000 escudos...
  
  
• Miracle of Chile
  Miracle of Chile
  The "Miracle of Chile" was a term used by free market Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman to describe liberal and free market reorientation of the economy of Chile in the 1980s, 1990s and the purported benefits of his style of economic liberalism...
  
  
• Chilean nationalization of copper
  Chilean nationalization of copper
  The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry commonly described as the Chilenización del cobre or "Chileanisation of copper," was the progressive process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the...
  
  
• Chilean peso
  Chilean peso
  The peso is the currency of Chile. The current peso has circulated since 1975, with a previous version circulating between 1817 and 1960. The symbol used locally for it is $. The ISO 4217 code for the present peso is CLP. It is subdivided into 100 centavos, although no centavo denominated coins...
  
  
• Project Cybersyn
  Project Cybersyn
  Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973 . It was essentially a network of telex machines that linked factories with a single computer centre in Santiago, which controlled them using principles of cybernetics...
  
  
• Santiago Stock Exchange
  Santiago Stock Exchange
  The Santiago Stock Exchange , founded on November 27, 1893, is Chile's dominant stock exchange.-Operations and Indices:The exchange trades in stocks, bonds, investment funds, stock options, futures, gold and silver coins minted by the Banco Central de Chile, and US dollars on Telepregon, its...
  
  
• Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
  Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
  The Trans-Pacific Partnership , also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalise the economies of the Asia-Pacific region; specifically, Article 1.1.3 notes: “The Parties seek to support the wider...
  
  
• US-Chile Free Trade Agreement
• Unidad de Fomento
  Unidad de Fomento
  The Unidad de Fomento is a Unit of account that is used in Chile. The exchange rate between the UF and the Chilean peso is now constantly adjusted to inflation so that the value of the Unidad de Fomento remains constant on a daily basis during low inflation...
  
  

Companies of Chile

• List of Chilean companies
• Antofagasta plc
  Antofagasta plc
  Antofagasta plc is a Chilean business that operates in various sectors of the economy. It is one of the most important conglomerates of Chile with equity participation in Antofagasta Minerals, the railroad from Antofagasta to Bolivia, Aguas Antofagasta in Chile, Tethian in Australia and other...
  
  
• Codelco
  Codelco
  CODELCO is the Chilean state owned copper mining company formed in 1976 from the foreign owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1971. The headquarters are in Santiago and the seven-man board of directors is appointed by the President of the Republic...
  
  
• Copec
  Copec
  Empresas Copec is a Chilean energy and forestry company with a chain of gas stations throughout Chile.Copec started as company in 1934. The first president of Copec was Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who later became Chilean president...
  
  
• Distribución y Servicio
  Distribución y Servicio
  Distribución y Servicio is a Chilean company that operates several businesses, including Líder hypermarkets and Ekono supermarkets. Since 2009 the main controller is Wal-mart and the founder family Ibañez.-External links:***...
  
  
• Entel
• Falabella
• LAN Airlines
  LAN Airlines
  LAN Airlines S.A. is an airline based in Santiago, Chile. LAN is currently positioned amongst the largest airlines in Latin America, serving Latin America, United States, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Europe. It is a member of the Oneworld airline alliance...
  
  
• El Mercurio
  El Mercurio
  El Mercurio is a conservative Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's paper-of-record and its Valparaíso edition is the oldest daily in the Spanish language currently in circulation. El Mercurio is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P...
  
  
• Rojasfilms
  Rojasfilms
  Rojasfilms is an award-winning production services company located in Santiago, Chile....
  
  
• Sky Airline
  Sky Airline
  Sky Airline is an airline based at Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile. It is the second largest airline in the country behind rival LAN Airlines, and mostly relies on domestic services.- History :...
  
  
• VTR Globalcom
  VTR Globalcom
  VTR Banda Ancha S.A. is a Chilean telecommunications company. It is the country's largest provider of cable television with 890,345 subscribers . It is also the second largest provider of...
  
  
• Vigatec (Chile)
  Vigatec (Chile)
  Vigatec is a Chilean corporation founded in 1980. The company headquarters is based in Santiago de Chile and it has subsidiaries in Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil...
  
  
• Williamson-Balfour Company
  Williamson-Balfour Company
  The Williamson-Balfour Company was a Scottish owned Chilean company. Its successor company, Williamson Balfour Motors S.A., is a subsidiary of the British company Inchcape plc....
  
  

Mines in Chile

• Chuquicamata
  Chuquicamata
  Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui" as it is more familiarly known, is by digged volume the biggest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, 215 km northeast of Antofagasta and 1,240 km north of the capital, Santiago...
  
  
• Escondida
  Escondida
  Minera Escondida, which means 'hidden' in Spanish, is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world...
  
  
• Radomiro Tomic (mine)
  Radomiro Tomic (mine)
  The Radomiro Tomić mine is open pit mine that extracts oxide minerals at above sea level in the Andes mountains near to Chuquicamata mine and Calama in northern Chile's Antofagasta Region....
  
  
• El Teniente
  El Teniente
  El Teniente is an underground copper mine in the Chilean commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, near the town of Sewell, above mean sea level in the Andes. Mining at El Teniente is reported to have started as early as 1819...
  
  
• El Toqui mine
  El Toqui mine
  El Toqui mine is a zinc-gold mine in Chile. The mine is owned by Breakwater Resources through its wholly owned subsidiary company Sociedad Contractul Minera el Toqui. The mine was purchased from Barrick Gold Corporation in 1997....
  
  

Trade unions of Chile

• Central Autónoma de Trabajadores
  Central Autónoma de Trabajadores
  The Central Autónoma de Trabajadores is a trade union centre in Chile.The CAT is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
  
  
• Workers' United Center of Chile
  Workers' United Center of Chile
  The Workers' United Center of Chile is a union federation in Chile. The CUT was founded in 1953, but it was suppressed after the Chilean coup of 1973. It was refounded in September 1988 near the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship....
  
  

Education in Chile

• List of universities in Chile
• Chile Student Strike of 2006
• Education in Chile
  Education in Chile
  Education in Chile is divided in preschool, primary school, secondary school, and technical or higher education .- Levels of education :The levels of education in Chile are:...
  
  
• 2006 student protests in Chile
  2006 student protests in Chile
  The 2006 student protests in Chile were a series of ongoing student voice protests carried out by high school students across Chile from late April to early June 2006...
  
  
• 2011 student protests in Chile
• Chilean Traditional Universities
  Chilean Traditional Universities
  In Chile, the term universidades tradicionales is used to denote the group of universities founded before the 1980s. This term usually includes derivative universities, which are not really traditional but were derived from traditional ones...
  
  

Schools in Chile

• Instituto Nacional
  Instituto Nacional
  Instituto Nacional , founded on August 10, 1813 by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera , officially Liceo Ex A-0 - Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school...
  
  
• Santiago College
  Santiago College
  Fundación Educacional Santiago College is a private educational institution founded in 1880 and located in Providencia, Santiago de Chile. It is a great school and one of the best schools in Chile-History:...
  
  
• Nido de Aguilas
• The Mayflower School
• The Newland School
• Andrée English School
• Saint George's College
  Saint George's College
  Saint George’s College, founded in 1936 and run by the Congregation of Holy Cross, is among the most exclusive and upper-class schools in Santiago, Chile...
  
  
• Colegio de Nuestra Senora de Andacollo (Santiago)

Universities in Chile

• Central University of Chile
  Central University of Chile
  The Central University of Chile is the first autonomous private university in Chile, founded in 1982 in Santiago de Chile. It's accredited in the areas of institutional management and undergraduate teaching by the National Accreditation Commission of Chile for a term of four years from December...
  
  
• Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
  Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
  The Adolfo Ibáñez University is a private university of Chile pertaining to the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation. In 1988, according with the new educational legislation, a new university was founded on the base of the Valparaiso Business School , an old institution for the professional teaching in...
  
  
• Universidad de Antofagasta
  Universidad de Antofagasta
  University of Antofagasta is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad de Chile (university)
  Universidad de Chile (university)
  The University of Chile is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in Chile and one of the oldest in the Americas. Founded in 1842 as the replacement and continuation of the former colonial Royal University of San Felipe , the university is often called Casa de Bello in honor of...
  
  
• Universidad de Concepción
  Universidad de Concepción
  The University of Concepción , also known for its acronym UdeC, is one of the most prestigious universities in Chile. It is the third oldest university in the country, and it is part of the Council of Rectors. It was the first University founded in the South of Chile, and the first to become a...
  
  
• Universidad Gabriela Mistral
  Universidad Gabriela Mistral
  -External links:* * http://www.ugm.cl...
  
  
• Universidad de La Frontera
  Universidad de La Frontera
  University of the Frontier or UFRO is a university in Temuco Chile. It is a derivative university and part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. UFRO boasts a student body with a variety of abilities and from a variety of backgrounds, many of Mapuche descent....
  
  
• Universidad de La Serena
  Universidad de La Serena
  The University of La Serena is a university in Chile located 350 miles north of Santiago. The university has five campuses: three in La Serena, one in Coquimbo, and one in Ovalle...
  
  
• Universidad de las Américas (Chile)
  Universidad de las Américas (Chile)
  Universidad de Las Americas, is a private Chilean university, founded in 1988, belonging to the network Laureate International Universities private Universities...
  
  
• Universidad de Los Lagos
  Universidad de Los Lagos
  The University of Los Lagos is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. It currently operates two campuses: the main campus in Osorno, and another in Valdivia and Puerto Montt, the regional capital....
  
  
• Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación
  Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación
  University of Educational Sciences "Playa Ancha" is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities, belonging to rector's Council. It was founded 1948 in Vaparaíso as "Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile", with the intention to...
  
  
• Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two Pontifical Universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. It is also one of Chile's oldest universities and...
  
  
• Universidad San Sebastián
  Universidad San Sebastián
  Saint Sebastian University is a private Chilean university with its headquarters located in Concepción. The university also has faculties in Santiago, Valdivia, Osorno and Puerto Montt. It was founded in 1989, and received formal state recognition as a university in 2001.-External links:*...
  
  
• University of Santiago, Chile
  University of Santiago, Chile
  The University of Santiago of Chile is one of the oldest public universities in Chile.The institution was born as Escuela de Artes y Oficios in 1849, under the government of Manuel Bulnes...
  
  
• Template:Chilean Traditional Universities
• Universidad Católica de Temuco
  Universidad Católica de Temuco
  Temuco Catholic University is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities....
  
  
• Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  Alberto Hurtado University is a Jesuit university located in downtown Santiago. Established in 1997, the university was created from the merger of three separate institutes,Instituto Latinoamericano de Doctrina y Estudios Sociales , the Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo de la Educación , and the...
  
  
• Universidad Arturo Prat
  Universidad Arturo Prat
  Universidad Arturo Prat is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.This university was created in 1981 from the former campus of the University of Chile in Iquique....
  
  
• Universidad Austral de Chile
  Universidad Austral de Chile
  Southern University of Chile is a research university in Chile based in Valdivia although it has some institutions and careers in Puerto Montt. Founded by decree on 7 September 1954 it is one of the eight original Chilean Traditional Universities...
  
  
• Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  Catholic University of the Holy Conception is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.The University...
  
  
• Universidad Católica del Maule
  Universidad Católica del Maule
  Catholic University of Maule is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.This university was created in 1991, in what was the former Talca campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile....
  
  
• Universidad Católica del Norte
  Universidad Católica del Norte
  Católica del Norte University is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. It is located in Antofagasta, Chile.Católica del Norte University was founded on May 31, 1956.The current rector is Misael Camus Ibacache....
  
  
• Universidad Diego Portales
  Universidad Diego Portales
  Diego Portales University is one of the first private universities founded in Chile and is named after the Chilean statesman Diego Portales.Since its foundation, the University has consistently been focused on academic improvement, which has led UDP to be positioned as one of the best universities...
  
  
• Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
  Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
  The Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences is a university specialized in Pedagogy and located in the commune of Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.-History:The university was created in 1889 as the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile...
  
  
• Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
  Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
  Metropolitan University of Technology is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad Tecnológica de Chile
• Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  thumbnail|right|276px|University frontisThe Federico Santa María Technical University , is a Chilean university situated in Valparaíso, Chile...
  
  
• Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación
  Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación
  University for the Arts, Sciences, and Communication is a Chilean university. It is a for-profit institution owned by the Apollo Group.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad de Atacama
  Universidad de Atacama
  University of Atacama or UDA is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The university is located in Copiapó, in the Third Region, Atacama....
  
  
• Universidad de Magallanes
  Universidad de Magallanes
  University of Magallanes is a university in the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The University of Magallanes was established in 1981 during the neoliberal reforms of the Chile's military regime as the successor of Universidad Técnica del...
  
  
• Universidad de Talca
  Universidad de Talca
  The University of Talca is a Chilean university located in the cities of Talca, Curicó, and Santiago. It is a derivative university, one of the most important universities of the southern-central region of Chile, and it's part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- History :The Universidad de...
  
  
• Universidad de Tarapacá
  Universidad de Tarapacá
  University of Tarapacá is a university in Arica, Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The university publishes Revista Chungará a journal on anthropology and archaeology.-External links:...
  
  
• Universidad de Valparaíso
  Universidad de Valparaíso
  University of Valparaíso is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.-External links:*...
  
  
• Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
  Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
  The University of the Andes is a private institution located at 2,200 San Carlos de Apoquindo Ave., Santiago, Chile. Along with 16 undergraduate programs, the University has a business school known as ESE, Business School...
  
  
• Universidad del Bío-Bío
  Universidad del Bío-Bío
  University of Bío-Bío is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- University of Bío-Bío :The University of Bío-Bío is heir of the tradition of state and public higher education in the Bío Bío Region...
  
  
• Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  thumbnail|right|276px|University frontisThe Federico Santa María Technical University , is a Chilean university situated in Valparaíso, Chile...
  
  
• Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
  Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
  The Pontificial Catholic University of Valparaíso , is a university of approximately 11,000 students located in Valparaíso, Chile....
  
  

Fauna of Chile

• Alpaca
  Alpaca
  An alpaca is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in appearance.Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of southern Peru, northern Bolivia, Ecuador, and northern Chile at an altitude of to above sea level, throughout the year...
  
  
• Andean Cat
  Andean Cat
  The Andean Mountain Cat is a small wild cat. It is one of only two felids for which no subspecies have been classically described. Fewer than 2500 individuals are thought to exist. This cat is one of about two dozen small wild cat species found around the world...
  
  
• Andean Condor
  Andean Condor
  The Andean Condor is a species of South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and is the only member of the genus Vultur...
  
  
• Andean Tinamou
  Andean Tinamou
  The Andean Tinamou is a tinamou, found commonly in high altitude shrubland, in the Andes of South America.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Black-necked Swan
  Black-necked Swan
  The Black-necked Swan is the largest waterfowl native to South America. Males are and weigh 4.5-6.7 kg ; females are and weigh 3.5-4.4 kg . The wingspan ranges from . The body plumage is white with a black neck, head and greyish bill. It has a red knob near the base of the bill and...
  
  
• Chilean Dolphin
  Chilean Dolphin
  The Chilean Dolphin , also known as the Black Dolphin, is one of four dolphins in the Cephalorhynchus genus. The dolphin is only found off the coast of Chile, it is commonly referred to in the country as Tunina....
  
  
• Chilean Flamingo
  Chilean Flamingo
  The Chilean Flamingo is a large species closely related to Caribbean Flamingo and Greater Flamingo, with which it was sometimes considered conspecific...
  
  
• Chilean Horse
  Chilean Horse
  The Chilean Horse is a breed virtually unknown outside South America despite being the oldest registered native American breed, the oldest registered breed of Iberian origin, the oldest registered horse breed in South America and the oldest registered stock horse breed in the Western...
  
  
• Coscoroba Swan
  Coscoroba Swan
  The Coscoroba Swan is a species of waterfowl inhabiting southern South America. It is the smallest of the birds called "swans", but still a large species of waterfowl, averaging 4.2 kg , 1 m long and 1.57 m across the wings...
  
  
• Culpeo
  Culpeo
  The culpeo , sometimes known as the culpeo zorro or Andean fox , is a South American species of wild dog. It is the second largest native canid on the continent after the maned wolf. In its appearance it bears many similarities to the widely recognized red fox...
  
  
• Darwin's Fox
  Darwin's Fox
  Darwin's fox or Darwin's Zorro is a small Critically endangered canine from the genus Lycalopex. It is also known as the Zorro Chilote or Zorro de Darwin in Spanish and lives on Chiloé Island and Nahuelbuta National Park in mainland Chile .Darwin's fox was first collected from San Pedro Island off...
  
  
• Degu
  Degu
  The degu is a small caviomorph rodent that is endemic to central Chile.It is sometimes referred to as the brush-tailed rat, and is also called the common degu, to distinguish it from the other members of the genus Octodon. Other members are also called degus, but they are distinguished by...
  
  
• Elegant Crested Tinamou
  Elegant Crested Tinamou
  The Elegant Crested Tinamou or Martineta Tinamou, Eudromia elegans, is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in shrubland.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Emperor Penguin
  Emperor Penguin
  The Emperor Penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching in height and weighing anywhere from . The dorsal side and head are black and sharply delineated from the white belly,...
  
  
• Flying Steamer Duck
  Flying Steamer Duck
  The Flying Steamer Duck, Tachyeres patachonicus, is a steamer duck. It is the most widespread steamer duck, resident in southern Chile and Argentina, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. Its plumage is very similar to the other three steamer ducks...
  
  
• Geoffroy's Cat
  Geoffroy's Cat
  Geoffroy's Cat is a wild cat in the southern and central regions of South America. It is about the size of a domestic cat. While the species is relatively common in many areas, it is considered to be "Near Threatened" by IUCN because of concern over land-use changes in the regions where it lives...
  
  
• Green-backed Firecrown
  Green-backed Firecrown
  The Green-backed Firecrown is a hummingbird that is found in Argentina and Chile. It can be fairly common in some locations, especially the Robinson Crusoe Island, 350 miles off the Chilean coast. It is found as far south as Tierra del Fuego.Like its cousin the Juan Fernández Firecrown, the...
  
  
• Guanaco
• Haig's Tuco-tuco
  Haig's Tuco-tuco
  Haig's tuco-tuco , known regionally as the Patagonian tuco-tuco, is a South American hystricognath rodent. Like other tuco-tucos it is subterranean and thus not often observed, although the "tuc-tuc" call of the males can be heard near burrow sites, especially in early morning. Like most species...
  
  
• Huemul (zoology)
  Huemul (zoology)
  Hippocamelus is a genus of Cervidae, the deer family. It comprises two endangered Andean species, commonly known as Huemul , and Taruca. The huemul have a stocky, thick, and short-legged body. These mammals live at high altitudes in the summer, then move down the mountains in the fall and spend the...
  
  
• Humboldt Penguin
  Humboldt Penguin
  The Humboldt Penguin is a South American penguin, that breeds in coastal Peru and Chile. Its nearest relatives are the African Penguin, the Magellanic Penguin and the Galápagos Penguin...
  
  
• James's Flamingo
  James's Flamingo
  James's Flamingo is also known as the Puna Flamingo. Named for Harry Berkeley James, it populates the high altitudes of Andean plateaus of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. It is closely related to the Andean Flamingo, and the two make up the genus Phoenicoparrus...
  
  
• Kelp Goose
  Kelp Goose
  The Kelp Goose , Chloephaga hybrida, is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae...
  
  
• King Penguin
  King Penguin
  The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin at about , second only to the Emperor Penguin. There are two subspecies—A. p. patagonicus and A. p...
  
  
• Kodkod
  Kodkod
  The Kodkod , also called Guiña, is the smallest cat in the Americas and also has the smallest distribution, being found primarily in central and southern Chile and marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina...
  
  
• Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
  Long-nosed Shrew Opossum
  The Long-nosed Caenolestid , or Long-nosed Shrew Opossum, is one of six surviving species of shrew opossum. It is a small marsupial that lives in old growth evergreen temperate forests in Chile and Argentina...
  
  
• Macaroni Penguin
  Macaroni Penguin
  The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of six species of crested penguin, it is very closely related to the Royal Penguin, and some authorities consider the two to be a single species...
  
  
• Magellanic Penguin
  Magellanic Penguin
  The Magellanic Penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus, is a South American penguin, breeding in coastal Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands, with some migrating to Brazil where they are occasionally seen as far north as Rio de Janeiro. It is the most numerous of the Spheniscus penguins. Its nearest...
  
  
• Monito del Monte
  Monito del Monte
  The Monito del Monte The Monito del Monte The Monito del Monte (Spanish for "little mountain monkey", Dromiciops gliroides, is a diminutive marsupial native only to southwestern South America (Chile and Argentina). It is the only extant species in the ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New...
  
  
• Pampas Cat
  Pampas Cat
  The Colocolo is a small spotted and striped cat native to the west Andean slope in central and northern Chile. Until recently it included the more widespread Pampas Cat and Pantanal Cat , and some maintain these as subspecies of the Colocolo...
  
  
• Pampas Fox
  Pampas Fox
  The Pampas fox , also known as graxaim, sorro, Azara's fox, or Azara's zorro, is a medium sized zorro or "false" fox native to South American pampas and its range is through central South America in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil...
  
  
• Pudú
  Pudú
  The pudús are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu; the world's smallest deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of southern Chile...
  
  
• Puna Tinamou
  Puna Tinamou
  The Puna Tinamou, Tinamotis pentlandii also known as Pentland’s Tinamou is a member of the most ancient groups of bird families, the tinamous. This species is native to southern South America.-Taxonomy:...
  
  
• Sechura Fox
  Sechura Fox
  The Sechuran fox , also called the Peruvian desert fox or the Sechuran zorro, is a South American species of canid closely related to other South American "false" foxes or zorro, of which it is the smallest...
  
  
• Short-eared Dog
  Short-eared Dog
  The short-eared dog , also known as the short-eared fox or the short-eared zorro, is a unique and elusive canid species endemic to the Amazonian basin...
  
  
• South American Sea Lion
  South American Sea Lion
  The South American sea lion , also called the southern sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion, is a sea lion found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Argentine and Southern Brazilian coasts. It is the only member of the genus Otaria...
  
  
• South American Gray Fox
• Torrent Duck
  Torrent Duck
  The Torrent Duck is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is the only member of the genus Merganetta. Today it is placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae after the "perching duck" assemblage where it was formerly assigned to was dissolved because it turned out to be...
  
  
• Vampire bat
  Vampire bat
  Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy. There are three bat species that feed solely on blood: the Common Vampire Bat , the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat , and the White-winged Vampire Bat .All three species are native to the Americas, ranging from Mexico to...
  
  
• Vicuña
  Vicuña
  The vicuña or vicugna is one of two wild South American camelids, along with the guanaco, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes. It is a relative of the llama, and is now believed to share a wild ancestor with domesticated alpacas, which are raised for their fibre...
  
  

Flora of Chile

• Aextoxicon
• Antarctic flora
  Antarctic flora
  The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana, and is now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including southern South America, southernmost Africa, New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia...
  
  
• Araucaria
  Araucaria
  Araucaria is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae. There are 19 extant species in the genus, with a highly disjunct distribution in New Caledonia , Norfolk Island, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil.-Description:Araucaria are mainly...
  
  
• Araucaria araucana
  Araucaria araucana
  Araucaria araucana is an evergreen tree growing to tall with a trunk diameter. The tree is native to central and southern Chile, western Argentina and south Brazil. Araucaria araucana is the hardiest species in the conifer genus Araucaria...
  
  
• Austrocedrus
  Austrocedrus
  Austrocedrus is a genus of conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae. It has only one species, Austrocedrus chilensis, native to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and the adjacent drier steppe-forests of central-southern Chile and western Argentina from 33°S to 44°S latitude...
  
  
• Berberis buxifolia
  Berberis buxifolia
  Berberis microphylla or Berberis buxifolia, common name the Magellan Barberry, in Spanish Calafate, is an evergreen shrub, with shiny box-like leaves. The Calafate is native to the south of Argentina and Chile and is a symbol of Patagonia.The bush grows to a height of . It has many arching...
  
  
• Berberis darwinii
  Berberis darwinii
  Berberis darwinii is a species of barberry in the family Berberidaceae, native to southern South America in southern Chile and Argentina. Common names include Darwin's Barberry and Michay....
  
  
• Berberis negeriana
  Berberis negeriana
  Berberis negeriana is a species of barberry, native and endemic to an extremely small area in coastal range of Bio-Bio Region in Chile. Common name include Neger's Barberry and Michay de Neger....
  
  
• Boldo
  Boldo
  Peumus boldus, the only species in the genus Peumus, is commonly known as Boldo . This tree of the family Monimiaceae is natively endemic to the central region of Chile, occurring from 33° to 40° southern latitude...
  
  
• Chilean Matorral
  Chilean Matorral
  The Chilean Matorral is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America. It is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, part of the Neotropic ecozone....
  
  
• Coihue
  Coihue
  Nothofagus dombeyi is a tree species native to southern Chile and the Andean parts of Argentine Patagonia. It grows from 35 to 45° South latitude between 700 and 1,200 m above mean sea level. It forms dense forests, like those found in the Los Alerces and Nahuel Huapi national parks...
  
  
• Copihue
  Copihue
  Lapageria rosea, commonly known as the Copihue Lapageria rosea, commonly known as the Copihue Lapageria rosea, commonly known as the Copihue (co-pee-way Lapageria rosea, commonly known as the Copihue (co-pee-way...
  
  
• Drimys
  Drimys
  Drimys is a genus of about eight species of woody evergreen flowering plants, in the family Winteraceae. The species are native to the Neotropics, ranging from southern Mexico to the southern tip of South America...
  
  
• Eucryphia
  Eucryphia
  Eucryphia is a small genus of trees or large shrubs of the Antarctic flora, native to the south temperate regions of South America and coastal eastern Australia. Traditionally placed in a family of their own, the Eucryphiaceae, more recent classifications place them in the Cunoniaceae. There are...
  
  
• Fitzroya
  Fitzroya
  Fitzroya is a monotypic genus in the cypress family.-Species:The single living species, Fitzroya cupressoides, is a tall, long-lived conifer native to the Andes mountains of southern Chile and Argentina, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests...
  
  
• Francoaceae
  Francoaceae
  The Francoaceae are a small family of plants, including the genus Francoa, commonly known as Bridal Wreaths. There are two genera, each with a single species....
  
  
• Gomortega
  Gomortega
  Gomortega keule is a tree native to Chile. It is the sole species of the genus Gomortega and, according to the APG II system of 2003 , of the monotypic family Gomortegaceae, assigned to the order Laurales in the clade magnoliids.The plant grows...
  
  
• Juan Fernández Islands
  Juan Fernández Islands
  The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first...
  
  
• Lardizabala
  Lardizabala
  Lardizabala is a monotypic genus of flowering plants. These plants are evergreen lianas, native to temperate forests of central and southern Chile....
  
  
• Lenga Beech
  Lenga Beech
  Nothofagus pumilio is a deciduous tree or shrub in the Nothofagaceae family that is native to the southern Andes range, in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego, from 35° to 56° South latitude. This tree is in the same genus as the Coihue. It regenerates easily after...
  
  
• Luma apiculata
  Luma apiculata
  Luma apiculata, is a species of tree in the genus Luma in the family Myrtaceae, native to the central Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina between 33 and 45° South Latitude. Synonyms include Myrtus luma Mol., Eugenia apiculata DC., Myrceugenia apiculata Niedenzu, and Myrceugenella...
  
  
• Luma chequen
  Luma chequen
  Luma chequen is a species of flowering plant in the genus Luma in the family Myrtaceae, native to the central Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina, at latitudes located 30 to 41º South. Synonyms include Eugenia chequen Molina, Myrtus chequen Spreng., and Luma gayana Burret...
  
  
• Magellanic subpolar forests
  Magellanic subpolar forests
  The Magellanic subpolar forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina, and is part of the Neotropic ecozone...
  
  
• Mitraria
  Mitraria
  Mitraria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, comprising the sole species M. coccinea ....
  
  
• Myrceugenia
  Myrceugenia
  Myrceugenia is a genus of evergreen woody flowering trees and shrubs belonging to the Myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus is native to South America from southeast Brazil south to southern Chile; it is closely related to the genus Luma; some botanists include Myrceugenia in that genus.Two species...
  
  
• Nolana
  Nolana
  Nolana is a genus of hard annual or perennial plants in the Nightshade family, which is native of costal areas in Chile and Peru.-Classification:...
  
  
• Nothofagus
  Nothofagus
  Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 35 species of trees and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia...
  
  
• Nothofagus antarctica
  Nothofagus antarctica
  Nothofagus antarctica , is a deciduous tree or shrub native to southern Chile and Argentina from about 36°S to Tierra del Fuego . The southernmost occurrence is on Hoste Island, making it the southernmost trees on earth...
  
  
• Pilgerodendron
  Pilgerodendron
  Pilgerodendron is a genus of conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae. It has only one species, Pilgerodendron uviferum, and is endemic to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and Magellanic subpolar forests of southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It grows from 40 to 55°S in...
  
  
• Podocarpus nubigenus
  Podocarpus nubigenus
  Podocarpus nubigenus is a species of podocarp, endemic to the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southern Chile and adjacent southwestern Argentina. It is the southernmost podocarp in the world, It grows from 38° to Ultima Esperanza , It grows in wet and swampy soils...
  
  
• Prumnopitys andina
  Prumnopitys andina
  Prumnopitys andina , the Chilean plum yew, is an evergreen coniferous tree native to south-central Chile and a few areas in adjacent parts of westernmost Argentina from 36 to 40° South latitude...
  
  
• Saxegothaea
  Saxegothaea
  Saxegothaea is a genus comprising a single species of conifer belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae, its full scientific name is Saxegothaea conspicua, native to southern South America...
  
  
• Soap bark tree
  Soap bark tree
  Quillaja saponaria, the soap bark tree or Soapbark, is an evergreen tree in the family Quillajaceae, native to warm temperate central Chile. In Chile it occurs from 32 to 40° South Latitude approximately. Populations are found even 2000 m above sea level. It can grow to 15-20 m in height...
  
  
• Solanum crispum
  Solanum crispum
  Solanum crispum is a species of nightshade that is native to Chile and Peru. Common names include Chilean Potato Vine, Chilean Nightshade Chilean Potato Tree, and Potato Vine. It belongs to the same genus as the potato . The flowers resemble potato flowers...
  
  
• Tetragonia
  Tetragonia
  Tetragonia is a genus of 50-60 species of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to temperate and subtropical regions mostly of the Southern Hemisphere, in New Zealand, Australia, southern Africa and South America...
  
  
• Ugni
  Ugni
  Ugni is a genus of about 10 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to western South America and Central America from the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southern Chile and adjacent regions of southern Argentina, north to southern Mexico, and also the Juan Fernández Islands of...
  
  
• Valdivian temperate rain forests
  Valdivian temperate rain forests
  The Valdivian temperate rain forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed-forest ecoregion located on the west coast of southern South America, lying mostly in Chile and extending into a small part of Argentina. It is part of the Neotropic ecozone. The forests are named after the city of Valdivia...
  
  
• Yareta
  Yareta
  Yareta is a tiny flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, the north of Chile and the west of Argentina at between 3200 and 4500 metres altitude.Yareta is an evergreen perennial being in leaf...
  
  

World Heritage Sites in Chile

• Churches of Chiloé
  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 buildings of Chilota architecture. Unlike classical Spanish colonial architecture the churches of Chiloé are made entirely in native timber with extensive use of...
  
  
• Easter Island
  Easter Island
  Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...
  
  
• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.-Geography:...
  
  
• Sewell, Chile
  Sewell, Chile
  Sewell is an uninhabited Chilean mining town located in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, on the slopes of the Andes, at an altitude between 2,000 and 2,250 metres. The town was founded in 1904 by the Braden Copper Co. to extract the copper in the El Teniente mine,...
  
  
• Valparaíso
  Valparaíso
  Valparaíso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere. The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region...
  
  

Ecoregions in Chile

• Atacama
• Chilean Matorral
  Chilean Matorral
  The Chilean Matorral is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America. It is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, part of the Neotropic ecozone....
  
  
• Desventuradas Islands
  Desventuradas Islands
  thumb|Map of Desventuradas Islands The Desventuradas Islands, also known as Islas de los Desventurados, is a group of four small islands located off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• Juan Fernández Islands
  Juan Fernández Islands
  The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first...
  
  
• Magellanic subpolar forests
  Magellanic subpolar forests
  The Magellanic subpolar forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina, and is part of the Neotropic ecozone...
  
  
• Valdivian temperate rain forests
  Valdivian temperate rain forests
  The Valdivian temperate rain forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed-forest ecoregion located on the west coast of southern South America, lying mostly in Chile and extending into a small part of Argentina. It is part of the Neotropic ecozone. The forests are named after the city of Valdivia...
  
  

Natural history of Chile

Geography of Chile

• Geography of Chile
  Geography of Chile
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• Altiplano
  Altiplano
  The Altiplano , in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on Earth outside of Tibet...
  
  
• Azapa Valley
  Azapa Valley
  Azapa Valley in Chile is a fertile and narrow oasis, framed between two sere hills and divided by the summer season-running "San Jose" river . It is located three kilometers from Arica...
  
  
• Chilean Central Valley
  Chilean Central Valley
  The Central Valley , Intermediate Depression or Longitudinal Valley is the depression between the Chilean Costal Range and the Andes Mountains. The central valley should not be confused with Central Chile that encompasses part of the valley...
  
  
• Darwin Sound
  Darwin Sound
  The Darwin Sound is an expanse of seawater which forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America...
  
  
• El Tatio
  El Tatio
  thumb|A geyser bubbling at El Tatio geyser fieldEl Tatio is a geyser field located within the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at 4,200 meters above mean sea level. Contrary to some reports, it is not the highest-elevation geyser field in the world. Puchuldiza Geyser Field, Chile, and possibly...
  
  
• Extreme points of Chile
  Extreme points of Chile
  This is a list of the extreme points of Chile, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.- Chile :* Northernmost point: Tripartite border with Bolivia and Peru in Arica and Parinacota Region near Visviri...
  
  
• Guanaqueros
  Guanaqueros
  Guanaqueros is a Chilean town in the commune of Coquimbo, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located 12 kilometers from Tongoy. It is a fishermen's cove, which spreads along the eastern rim of the Cerro Guanaqueros , and with its houses built facing to the north in the direction of the Pacific...
  
  
• Gulf of Ancud
  Gulf of Ancud
  Gulf of Ancud is a large body of water separating the Chiloé Island from the mainland of Chile. It is located at .-External links:*...
  
  
• Gulf of Corcovado
  Gulf of Corcovado
  Gulf of Corcovado is a large body of water separating the Chiloé Island from the mainland of Chile. Geologically it is a foreland basin that has been carved out by Quaternary glaciers. A large population of blue whales is found there, and it is under threat from salmon farming....
  
  
• Huinay
  Huinay
  Huinay, Chile is a tract of land belonging to the San Ignacio del Huinay Foundation. This territory covers nearly 350 km² in the Commune of Hualaihué, in Los Lagos Region of Chile. It lies between the Comau or Leptepu fiord and the border with the Republic of Argentina in the Palena Province. Its...
  
  
• ISO 3166-2:CL
  ISO 3166-2:CL
  ISO 3166-2:CL is the entry for Chile in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Chile, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined...
  
  
• Intermediate Depression
• La Portada
  La Portada
  La Portada is a natural arch on the coast of Chile, north of Antofagasta. It is one of fifteen natural monuments included among the protected areas of Chile....
  
  
• Lauca
  Lauca
  Lauca is a Biosphere Reserve, located in northern Chile, in Arica and Parinacota Region. The reserve comprises three protected areas: Lauca National Park, Las Vicuñas National Reserve and Salar de Surire Natural Monument. This zone was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1981.-References and...
  
  
• List of Biosphere Reserves in Chile
• Los Ruiles
  Los Ruiles
  "Los Ruiles National Reserve" is a small nature reserve located in the easternmost part of the municipality of Pelluhue, Province of Cauquenes, Maule Region, Chile...
  
  
• Peru-Chile Trench
  Peru-Chile Trench
  The Peru-Chile Trench, also known as the Atacama Trench, is an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 160 kilometres off the coast of Peru and Chile...
  
  
• Puerto Hambre
  Puerto Hambre
  Puerto Hambre, originally Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, also known as Puerto del Hambre and at one time as Port Famine, is a historic settlement site at Buena Bay on the west side of the Strait of Magellan approximately south of Punta Arenas in the Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena,...
  
  
• Pumalín Park
  Pumalín Park
  Pumalín Park is a private nature reserve in the Palena Province of Chile, created by the United States environmental foundation The Conservation Land Trust, which is endowed and led by the American business magnate Douglas Tompkins...
  
  
• Tongoy, Chile
  Tongoy, Chile
  Tongoy is a Chilean coastal town in the commune of Coquimbo in Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located to the south of Chile's second oldest city, La Serena, next to the spa of Guanaqueros, on a rocky promontory opposite the Pacific Ocean, between the beaches of Socos and Grande , to the...
  
  
• Valdivian Coastal Range
  Valdivian Coastal Range
  The Valdivian Coastal Range is a mountain range in southern Chile, along the Pacific coast. Named for the city of Valdivia, it covers about 1 million acres of the Valdivian temperate rain forests, approximately one-quarter of which are protected. It forms part of the larger Chilean Coast Range...
  
  

See also: Famous in Chile http://purpleslinky.com/trivia/famous-in-chile/

Glaciers of Chile

• Brüggen Glacier
  Brüggen Glacier
  Brüggen Glacier, also known as Pío XI Glacier, is in southern Chile and is the largest western outflow from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Now about in length, it is the longest glacier in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica...
  
  
• Northern Patagonian Ice Field
  Northern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, located in southern Chile, is the smaller of two remnant parts in which the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Andes Mountains of lower South America can be divided. It is completely contained within the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park...
  
  
• San Quintín Glacier
  San Quintín Glacier
  The San Quintín Glacier is the largest outflow glacier of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile. Its terminus is a piedmont lobe just short of the Gulf of Penas on the Pacific Ocean and just north of 47°S.-Recent retreat:...
  
  
• San Rafael Glacier
  San Rafael Glacier
  The San Rafael Glacier is one of the major outlet glaciers of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile and is the tidewater glacier nearest the equator. It calves into the Laguna San Rafael and is contained within Laguna San Rafael National Park....
  
  
• Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Southern Patagonian Ice Field , located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Argentina and Chile, is the second largest contiguous extrapolar extent of ice in the world...
  
  

Islands of Chile

• Isla Chañaral
  Isla Chañaral
  Isla Chañaral , Chile is located 6 km off-shore from the northern Central Chilean coast, some 100 km north of the city of La Serena. Together with Isla Choros and Isla Damas, the island forms the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve, which is administered by the Chilean Forestry Corporation...
  
  
• Chiloé Island
  Chiloé Island
  Chiloé Island , also known as Greater Island of Chiloé , is the largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• Chonos Archipelago
  Chonos Archipelago
  Chonos Archipelago is a series of low mountainous elongated islands with deep bays, traces of a submerged Chilean Coast Range. Most of the islands are forested with little or no human settlement...
  
  
• Dawson Island
  Dawson Island
  Dawson Island is an island in the Strait of Magellan that forms part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, 100 km south of the city of Punta Arenas in Chile, and part of the Municipality of Punta Arenas. It is located southeast of Brunswick Peninsula and is an approximately 1290 km² tract...
  
  
• Desventuradas Islands
  Desventuradas Islands
  thumb|Map of Desventuradas Islands The Desventuradas Islands, also known as Islas de los Desventurados, is a group of four small islands located off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• Diego Ramírez Islands
  Diego Ramírez Islands
  The Diego Ramírez Islands are a small group of lesser islands located in the southernmost extreme of Chile about south-west of Cape Horn and south-south-east of Ildefonso Islands, stretching north-south . Their land area is little more than...
  
  
• Easter Island
  Easter Island
  Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...
  
  
• Guafo Island
  Guafo Island
  Guafo Island is an island located southwest of Chiloé Island and northwest of Chonos Archipelago, Chile. The island has a permanent population of only 4 Navy officers in a lighthouse that is run by the Chilean Navy. This island has some of timber estimated in 2000 to be worth $21 million USD....
  
  
• Guayaneco Archipelago
  Guayaneco Archipelago
  The Guayaneco Archipelago is an archipelago in southern Chile . It was heavily glaciated during the most recent ice age. These glaciers dissected these mountain islands into a series of deep river valleys and glacial troughs. Today these glacial troughs are deep channels and fjords...
  
  
• Hermite Islands
  Hermite Islands
  The Hermite Islands are a group of Chilean islands in the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. They form part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region, at the southernmost end of South America...
  
  
• Hoste (island)
  Hoste (island)
  Hoste is one of the southernmost islands in Chile, lying south, across the Beagle Channel, from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and west of Navarino Island, from which it is separated by the Murray Channel. With an area of , Hoste is the second largest island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago,...
  
  
• Ildefonso Islands
  Ildefonso Islands
  Islas Ildefonso are a group of islands in Chile. The islands belong to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region...
  
  
• Mocha (island)
  Mocha (island)
  Mocha is a small Chilean island located west of the coast of Arauco Province in the Pacific Ocean. The island is approximately in area, with a small chain of mountains running roughly in north-south direction. In Mapuche mythology, the souls of dead people travel west to visit this island...
  
  
• Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino is a Chilean island located strategically between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and Cape Horn, to the south. The island forms part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, the southernmost commune in Chile and in the world, belonging to Antártica Chilena Province in the XII...
  
  
• Picton, Lennox and Nueva
  Picton, Lennox and Nueva
  Picton, Lennox and Nueva is a group of three islands on the extreme south of South America, in the Chilean commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region...
  
  
• Riesco
  Riesco
  Riesco Island lies at west of the Brunswick Peninsula, Chile. It is one of the largest islands in Chile, with an area of . Its highest point is Mount Atalaya at . The island is bordered by two large piedmont embayments: Otway Sound and Skyring Sound. A narrow channel connects both bodies of water...
  
  
• Sala y Gómez
  Sala y Gómez
  Isla Salas y Gómez, also known as Isla Sala y Gómez, is a small uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost point in the Polynesian Triangle...
  
  
• Santa Inés
  Santa Inés
  Santa Inés Island is an island in southern Chile, part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and of Punta Arenas municipality, lying south west of the Brunswick Peninsula, from which is separated by the Strait of Magellan and minor islands...
  
  
• Tierra del Fuego
  Tierra del Fuego
  Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...
  
  
• Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan...
  
  
• Wellington Island
  Wellington Island
  Wellington Island is an island west of Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile. It has an area of 5,556 km² and most of the island forms part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. It is home to the last Kawésqar people, living the village of Puerto Edén, the only inhabited place on the...
  
  

Chiloé Island

• Chiloé Island
  Chiloé Island
  Chiloé Island , also known as Greater Island of Chiloé , is the largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• Chiloé Province
  Chiloé Province
  Chiloé Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . It encompasses all of Chiloé Archipelago with the exception of the Desertores Islands. The province spans a surface area of...
  
  

Juan Fernández Islands

• Juan Fernández Islands
  Juan Fernández Islands
  The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first...
  
  
• Alejandro Selkirk Island
  Alejandro Selkirk Island
  Alejandro Selkirk Island, previously known as Isla Más Afuera and renamed after Alexander Selkirk, is the second largest and most westernly island of the Juan Fernández Islands archipelago of the Valparaíso Region of Chile...
  
  
• Robinson Crusoe Island
  Robinson Crusoe Island
  Robinson Crusoe Island , formerly known as Más a Tierra , or Aguas Buenas, is the largest island of the Chilean Juan Fernández archipelago, situated 674 kilometres west of South America in the South Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• Santa Clara (Juan Fernández Islands)
  Santa Clara (Juan Fernández Islands)
  Santa Clara is an uninhabited tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Robinson Crusoe Island in a group of islands known as the Juan Fernández Islands. The island is of volcanic origin and is approximately 1 kilometre long and 600 metres wide...
  
  

Lakes of Chile

• Lake Chungará
  Lake Chungará
  Chungará is a lake situated in the extreme north of Chile, in the Altiplano of Arica and Parinacota Region. It is the 29th highest lake in the world . It is near the volcanos Parinacota and Pomerape...
  
  
• Fagnano Lake
  Fagnano Lake
  Cami Lake is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile....
  
  
• Buenos Aires/General Carrera Lake
  Buenos Aires/General Carrera Lake
  The Lake General Carrera or Lake Buenos Aires is a lake located in Patagonia and shared by Argentina and Chile...
  
  
• Lake Llanquihue
  Lake Llanquihue
  Lake Llanquihue is the second largest lake in Chile with an area of about . It is situated in the southern Los Lagos Region in the Llanquihue and Osorno provinces. The lake's fan-like form was created by successive piedmont glaciers during the Quaternary glaciations...
  
  
• O'Higgins/San Martín Lake
  O'Higgins/San Martín Lake
  The lake known as O'Higgins in Chile and San Martín in Argentina is located around coordinates in Patagonia, between the Aysén Region and the Santa Cruz Province....
  
  
• Lake Villarrica
  Lake Villarrica
  Lake Villarrica, also known as Mallolafquén , is located about 700 kilometers south of Santiago in Chile’s Lake District in the southeast area of the Province of Cautín...
  
  

Maps of Chile

• Maps of Chile

Mountains of Chile

• Acotango
  Acotango
  Volcán Acotango - is the central and highest of a group of stratovolcanoes straddling the border of Bolivia and Chile. The group is known as Nevados de Quimsachata and consists, apart of Acotango, of Volcán Humarata - to its north and Cerro Capurata - on its south.The group lies along a...
  
  
• Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
  Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
  Cerro Azul , sometimes referred to as Quizapu, is an active stratovolcano in the Maule Region of central Chile, immediately south of Descabezado Grande. Part of the South Volcanic Zone of the Andes, its summit is above sea level, and is capped by a summit crater that is wide and opens to the north...
  
  
• Cerro Bayo
• Cerro Chaltén
  Cerro Chaltén
  Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain located near El Chaltén village, in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile...
  
  
• Copahue
  Copahue
  Copahue is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile. There are nine volcanic craters along a line, and the eastern summit crater contains a briny, acidic 300 m wide crater lake...
  
  
• Cordillera de Talinay
  Cordillera de Talinay
  The Cordillera de Talinay is a mountain range situated in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. The range consists of a series of hills and foothills spreading more than 40 km in a north-south direction from the coast, but which descend to meet the Limari river as it crosses Chile's Intermediate Depression...
  
  
• Cordillera del Paine
  Cordillera del Paine
  The Cordillera del Paine is a small but spectacular mountain group in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. It is located north of Punta Arenas, and about 1,960 km south of the Chilean capital Santiago. It belongs to the Commune of Torres del Paine in Última Esperanza Province...
  
  
• Cordón del Azufre
  Cordón del Azufre
  Cordón del Azufre is a small, inactive complex volcano located on the Central Andes, at the border of Argentina and Chile.-External links:* - Volcanology at the University of North Dakota...
  
  
• Mount Darwin (Andes)
  Mount Darwin (Andes)
  Mount Darwin, the highest peak in Tierra del Fuego at forms part of the Cordillera of the Andes, South America, just to the north of the Beagle Channel. It is formed of crystalline schists and has massive glaciers down its steep southern slopes....
  
  
• Cerro Escorial
• Falso Azufre
• Mount Hudson
  Mount Hudson
  Mount Hudson is a stratovolcano in southern Chile, and the site of one of the largest eruptions in the twentieth century. The mountain itself is covered by a glacier. There is a caldera at the summit from an ancient eruption; modern volcanic activity comes from inside the caldera...
  
  
• Irruputuncu
  Irruputuncu
  Irruputuncu is a stratovolcano which lies on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It is a relatively small peak, lying within the collapse scarp of a debris avalanche from earlier in the Holocene, which was built up by eruptions to fill much of that feature. There are two craters lying at the summit,...
  
  
• Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas
  Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas
  Sierra Nevada, also known as Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, is a volcanic complex which lies in both Chile and Argentina. Some of the complex is of Holocene age, but there is also an older Pleistocene volcanism evident. The older material is to the east in Argentina. The complex lies in one of...
  
  
• Lanin
  Lanín
  Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-shaped stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile. It forms part of two national parks: Lanín in Argentina and Villarrica in Chile. It is a symbol of the Argentine province of Neuquén, being part of its flag and its anthem. Although the date of its last eruption...
  
  
• Lascar Volcano
  Lascar Volcano
  -Geographical setting:Lascar is located in the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, east of the Salar de Atacama, immediately west of the Aguas Calientes volcano, and to the northeast of Laguna Lejía...
  
  
• Lastarria
  Lastarria
  Lastarria, also known as Azufre, is a stratovolcano along the border of Argentina and Chile....
  
  
• Lautaro (volcano)
  Lautaro (volcano)
  Lautaro Volcano is an active ice-covered stratovolcano located in Chilean Patagonia, in the northern part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Its summit rises more than above the average surface of the ice cap plateau. It is the tallest mountain in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park and in its...
  
  
• Licancabur
  Licancabur
  Licancabur is a highly symmetrical stratovolcano on the southernmost part of the border between Chile and Bolivia. It is located just southwest of Laguna Verde in Bolivia. The volcano dominates the landscape of the Salar de Atacama area...
  
  
• Llullaillaco
  Llullaillaco
  Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world...
  
  
• Maipo (volcano)
  Maipo (volcano)
  Maipo is a stratovolcano in the Andes, lying on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located south of Tupungato and about southeast of Santiago....
  
  
• Marmolejo
  Marmolejo
  Volcán Marmolejo is a high Pleistocene stratovolcano in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located NNE of the active San José volcano, and has the distinction of being the southernmost -plus peak in the world.- See also :...
  
  
• Cerro Minchincha
  Cerro Minchincha
  Cerro Minchincha is a stratovolcano on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of an east-west trending ridge of stratovolcanoes. To its east lies Olca. The only historical activity from the complex was a flank eruption from 1865-1867....
  
  
• Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)
  Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)
  Sierra Nevada is a stratovolcano located in the Araucanía Region of Chile, near the Llaima volcano. Its last certain eruptions were in the Pleistocene period, but its activity may extend into the Holocene. Its primary lavas are andesitic and basaltic flows, although it has also produced pyroclastic...
  
  
• Nevado de Longaví
  Nevado de Longaví
  Nevado de Longaví is a stratovolcano in the Andes of central Chile. The 3,242 m perennially snowcapped peak is a landmark of Linares Province and the Maule Region, visible from practically every point in the Central Valley of the province and the neighbouring Province of Cauquenes.Treking in...
  
  
• Ojos del Salado
  Ojos del Salado
  Nevado Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest volcano in the world at . It is also the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and the highest in Chile...
  
  
• Olca
  Olca
  Olca is a stratovolcano on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It lies in the middle of a 15 km long ridge composed of several stratovolcanos. Cerro Minchincha lies to the west and Paruma to the east. It is also close to the pre-Holocene Cerro Paruma. It is andesitic and dacitic in composition,...
  
  
• Volcán Osorno
  Volcán Osorno
  Osorno Volcano is a tall conical stratovolcano lying between Osorno Province and Llanquihue Province, in Los Lagos Region of Chile. It stands on the southeastern shore of Llanquihue Lake, and also towers over Todos los Santos Lake...
  
  
• Cerro Paranal
  Cerro Paranal
  Cerro Paranal , also known as Paranal Mountain is a mountain in the Atacama desert of northern Chile that is home to the Paranal Observatory. It is famous for hosting the Very Large Telescope and the VLT Survey Telescope. It is located 120 km west of Antofagasta and 80 km north of Taltal,...
  
  
• Parinacota Volcano
• Paruma
  Paruma
  Paruma is a stratovolcano that lies on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of a ridge that contains several stratovolcanos. Paruma lies at the eastern end of the ridge, with Olca to its west. The older volcano Cerro Paruma lies to east of Paruma. Paruma has clearly been active during the...
  
  
• Pomerape
  Pomerape
  Pomerape is a stratovolcano lying on the border of Chile and Bolivia . It is part of the Nevados de Payachata complex of volcanoes together with Parinacota Volcano to the south. It is of Pleistocene age.Climbing the volcano is alpine AD grade, sometimes on 50+ degree snow/rubble slope...
  
  
• Robledo (volcano)
• Monte San Valentin
  Monte San Valentin
  Monte San Valentin, also known as Monte San Clemente, is the highest mountain in Chilean Patagonia and the highest mountain south of 40°S outside Antarctica. It stands at the north end of the North Patagonian Icefield....
  
  
• Socompa
  Socompa
  Socompa is a large complex stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It is best known for its large debris avalanche deposit, which is widely accepted as the best-preserved example of this type of deposit in the world, and also notable as the home of the world's most elevated known...
  
  
• Cerro Torre
  Cerro Torre
  Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile, west of Cerro Chalten . The peak is the highest in a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger , Punta Herron, and Cerro...
  
  
• Tronador
  Tronador
  Tronador is an extinct stratovolcano in the southern Andes, located along the border between Argentina and Chile near the city of Bariloche. The mountain was named Tronador by locals in reference to the sound of falling seracs...
  
  
• Tupungato
  Tupungato
  Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in South America, is a massive stratovolcano dating to Pleistocene times. It lies on the border between the Chilean Metropolitan Region and the , near a major international highway about 80 km east of Santiago, Chile. It is located about south of Monte...
  
  
• Villarrica (volcano)
  Villarrica (volcano)
  Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes, rising above the lake and town of the same name. The volcano is also known as Rucapillán, a Mapuche word meaning "House of the Pillán". It is the westernmost of three large stratovolcanoes that trend perpendicular to the Andean chain along the...
  
  

National parks of Chile

• List of national parks of Chile
• Alberto de Agostini National Park
  Alberto de Agostini National Park
  Alberto de Agostini National Park is a park located in the Chilean part of Tierra del Fuego. It covers and includes the Cordillera Darwin mountain range. The park is named after Alberto Maria De Agostini, who was an Italian missionary and explorer. Several tidewater glaciers and steep fjords form...
  
  
• Alerce Andino National Park
  Alerce Andino National Park
  Alerce Andino National Park is located in the Andes, in Los Lagos Region of Chile. This national park covers about 393 km². It is bounded by the Reloncaví Estuary on its east and south sides, and by the Reloncaví Sound to the west...
  
  
• Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park
  Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park
  Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park is a national park located 667 kilometres west of Chile's mainland port of San Antonio, in the Juan Fernández Archipelago. The park covers 96 square kilometres and comprises the islands: Santa Clara, Alejandro Selkirk and the most part of the Robinson...
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins National Park
  Bernardo O'Higgins National Park
  Bernardo O'Higgins National Park is the largest of the protected areas in Chile, covering an area of in both the Aisén and Magallanes and Antártica Chilena regions. The park is named after General Bernardo O'Higgins, first head of state of the Republic of Chile...
  
  
• Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
  Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
  Bosque de Fray Jorge national park or Bosque Fray Jorge national park lies in the Limarí Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile. It is a UNESCO Biosphere reserve.- Geography :...
  
  
• Cabo de Hornos National Park
  Cabo de Hornos National Park
  Cabo de Hornos National Park is located in the Cape Horn Archipelago, which belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, in the Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. It was created in 1945 and includes the Wollaston Archipelago and the Hermite Islands. The park covers...
  
  
• Conguillío National Park
  Conguillío National Park
  Conguillío National Park is located in the Andes, in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, in the Araucanía Region of Chile. Its name derives from the Mapuche word for "water with Araucaria seeds"...
  
  
• Cordillera del Paine
  Cordillera del Paine
  The Cordillera del Paine is a small but spectacular mountain group in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. It is located north of Punta Arenas, and about 1,960 km south of the Chilean capital Santiago. It belongs to the Commune of Torres del Paine in Última Esperanza Province...
  
  
• Isla Magdalena National Park
  Isla Magdalena National Park
  The Isla Magdalena national park is a protected area in Magdalena Island, Patagonia, Chile. It was created in 1967 as Forest Reserve and was reclassified as a National Park in 1983....
  
  
• La Campana National Park
  La Campana National Park
  La Campana National Park is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, Quillota Province, in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. La Campana National Park and the Vizcachas Mountains lie northwest of Santiago...
  
  
• Laguna San Rafael National Park
  Laguna San Rafael National Park
  Laguna San Rafael National Park is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it covers an area of and includes the Northern Patagonian Ice Field...
  
  
• Lauca National Park
  Lauca National Park
  Lauca National Park is located in Chile's far north, in the Andean range. It encompasses an area of 1,379 km² of altiplano and mountains, the latter consisting mainly of enormous volcanoes. Las Vicuñas National Reserve is its neighbour to the south. Both protected areas, along with Salar de Surire...
  
  
• Pali-Aike National Park
  Pali-Aike National Park
  The Pali-Aike National Park is a park located in the Magallanes Region of the Chilean Patagonia. Pali-Aike is a Tehuelche name that means Desolate Place. Created in 1970, it covers an area of and includes part of the Pali-Aike Volcanic Field. The park draws its name from a prominent volcanic cone...
  
  
• Queulat National Park
  Queulat National Park
  Queulat National Park is a national park of Chile located in the Aisén Region. The park is bordered by the Cisnes River on the south side and is neighbor to Lago Rosselot National Reserve...
  
  
• Rapa Nui National Park
  Rapa Nui National Park
  Rapa Nui National Park is a World Heritage Site located on Easter Island, Chile. The park is divided into seven sections:*Rano Kau *Puna Pau ....
  
  
• Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park
  Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park
  Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park is located in Los Lagos Region, Llanquihue Province, of Chile. Its western entrance is close to the Ensenada locality, northeast of the provincial capital of Puerto Montt, and from Puerto Varas along Ruta CH-225. This national park covers about and is almost...
  
  

Patagonia

• Patagonia
  Patagonia
  Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  
• City of the Caesars
  City of the Caesars
  The City of the Caesars , also variously known as City of the Patagonia, Wandering City, Trapalanda or Trapananda, Lin Lin or Elelín, is a mythical city of South America. It is supposedly located somewhere in Patagonia, in some valley of the Andes between Chile and Argentina...
  
  
• Lake Huechulafquen
  Lake Huechulafquen
  Huechulafquen Lake is a lake in Neuquén Province, Patagonian Argentina. This glacial lake is located in the Andean mountains in Lanín National Park some 25 kilometres from Junín de los Andes and 60 kilometres from San Martín de los Andes...
  
  
• Patagonian Ice Sheet
  Patagonian Ice Sheet
  350px|thumb|right|Map showing the extent of the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the [[Strait of Magellan]] area during the [[last glacial period]]. Selected modern settlements are shown with yellow dots...
  
  
• In Patagonia
  In Patagonia
  -Preparations:In 1972, Chatwin was hired by the Sunday Times Magazine as an adviser on art and architecture. His association with the magazine cultivated his narrative skills and he travelled on many international assignments, writing on such subjects as Algerian migrant workers and the Great Wall...
  
  
• Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia
  Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia
  The Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia was the name of a state and kingdom created in the 19th century by a French lawyer and adventurer named Orélie-Antoine de Tounens. Orélie-Antoine de Tounens claimed the regions of Araucanía and eastern Patagonia hence the name of kingdom...
  
  
• Patagon
  Patagon
  The Patagones or Patagonian giants are a mythical race of people, who first began to appear in early European accounts of the then little-known region and coastline of Patagonia. They were supposed to have exceeded at least double normal human height, some accounts giving heights of or more...
  
  
• Tehuelche people

Rivers of Chile

• Achibueno
  Achibueno
  Achibueno is a river, tributary of the Loncomilla, in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile, where it forms the border between the municipalities of Linares and Longaví....
  
  
• Aconcagua River
  Aconcagua River
  For other uses, see Aconcagua .The Aconcagua River is a river in Chile that rises from the joint of two minor tributary rivers at above sea level in the Andes, Juncal river from the east and Blanco river from the south east...
  
  
• Ancoa
  Ancoa
  Ancoa is a river, tributary of the Achibueno, in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile.-External links:*], Chile]...
  
  
• Baker River (Chile)
  Baker River (Chile)
  The Baker River is a river located in the Aisén Region of the Chilean Patagonia. It is Chile's largest river in terms of volume of water. The river flows out of Bertrand Lake, which is fed by General Carrera Lake. It runs along the east side of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field and empties into the...
  
  
• Bío-Bío River
  Bío-Bío River
  The Biobío River is the second largest river in Chile. It originates from Icalma and Galletué lakes in the Andes and flows 380 km to the Gulf of Arauco on the Pacific Ocean....
  
  
• Cauquenes river
  Cauquenes river
  The Cauquenes River is a tributary of the Perquilauquén River, and traverses Cauquenes Province, in the Maule Region of Chile. It is born in the Cordillera de la Costa, near Cauquenes. After passing to the south of the latter city it is joined by the Tutuvén River...
  
  
• Cautín River
  Cautín River
  The Cautín is a river in Chile. It rises on the western slopes of the Cordillera de Las Raíces and flows in Araucanía Region. The river's main tributary is the Quepe River. The city of Temuco is located on the Cautín River....
  
  
• Elqui River
  Elqui River
  The Elqui River starts in the west Andes, flowing into the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Chilean city of La Serena, is a wine and pisco producing area...
  
  
• Futaleufú River
  Futaleufú River
  The Futaleufú River is a river fed by the lakes in the Los Alerces National Park in Chubut Province, Argentina, crossing the Andes Mountains and the international border into Chile and opening into the Yelcho Lake....
  
  
• Itata River
  Itata River
  The Itata River flows in the Bío-Bío Region, southern Chile.Until the Conquest of Chile the Itata was the natural limit between the Mapuche, located to the south, and Picunche, to the north.-References:* . - External links :*...
  
  
• Laja River (Chile)
  Laja River (Chile)
  Laja River is a river in Chile, along which can be found the Laja Falls. It is located in the Bío-Bío Region. The source of the river is Laguna del Laja in the Andes, then flows westward through the Chilean Central Valley and terminates into the Bío-Bío River, being an important tributary of...
  
  
• Loa River
  Loa River
  The Loa River is a U-shaped river in Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. At 440 km long it is the country's longest river and the main watercourse in the Atacama Desert.-Course:...
  
  
• Loncomilla River
  Loncomilla River
  Loncomilla River is a tributary to the Maule river in Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile. Two rivers join to form the Loncomilla River: the Perquilauquén river and Longaví river.-External links:...
  
  
• Longaví River
  Longaví River
  The Longaví River is a tributary of the Maule River, in the Province of Linares, Maule Region of Chile. The Longaví is 120 km long.The Longaví rises in an Andean chain of north-south orientation at about 2,000 m of average altitude, but its main affluent, the Blanco river, drains the south-east...
  
  
• Mapocho River
  Mapocho River
  The Mapocho River flows from the Andes mountains onto the west and divides Chile's capital Santiago in two.-Course:...
  
  
• Mataquito River
  Mataquito River
  Mataquito is a river located in the Province of Curicó, Maule Region of Chile and formed by the union of rivers Teno and Lontué about 10 kilometers west of Curicó near the locality of Sagrada Familia and empties into the Pacific Ocean south of the town of Iloca, Licantén.- Source :*...
  
  
• Maule river
  Maule river
  The Maule river is one of the most important rivers of Chile and is inextricably linked to this country's pre-Hispanic times, the country's conquest, colonial period, wars of Independence, modern history, agriculture , culture , religion, economy and politics...
  
  
• Pascua River
  Pascua River
  The Pascua River is a river located in the Aisén Region of Chile. In spite of being a short river, its drainage basin is the seventh-largest in the country due to the great size of the O'Higgins/San Martín Lake, its source....
  
  
• Perquilauquén
  Perquilauquén
  The Perquilauquén River is a tributary of the Loncomilla river, in the Maule Region of Chile. The river joins the Longaví to form the Loncomilla, a tributary of the Maule river....
  
  
• Puelo River
  Puelo River
  The Puelo River has its origin in a lake of the same name in Argentine territory, and flows north-west throughthe Andes into the Reloncaví Estuary of the Reloncaví Sound at the northern end of the Gulf of Ancud. Its lower course is impeded in such a manner as to form the Lake Tagua Tagua...
  
  
• River Melado
  River Melado
  The Melado is a river of Linares province, Maule Region, of Chile. It rises in the "Cordillera de los Andes" with the name of river Guaiquivilo where it is formed by two tributaries, the river Cajón Troncoso, born near the Argentine border and the river Palaleo, from the outflow of Dial lake,...
  
  
• River Purapel
  River Purapel
  The Purapel river is a tributary of the river Perquilauquén, and traverses parts of the Talca and Linares provinces, in the Maule Region of Chile...
  
  
• River Putagán
  River Putagán
  Putagán is a river in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile. The Putagán is born in the foothills of the Andes and, flowing from east to west, passes south of the village of the same name...
  
  
• Valdivia River
  Valdivia River
  The Valdivia River or Río Valdivia, as it is known locally, is a major river in southern Chile. It is the continuation of the Calle-Calle River, from the point where it meets the Cau-Cau River in the city of Valdivia. The Valdivia river ends in Corral Bay, on the Pacific coast. Other tributaries...
  
  

Ski areas and resorts in Chile

• Antillanca
  Antillanca
  Antillanca is a ski resort in the Puyehue National Park in southern Chile. It is on the slope of the Casablanca Volcano. The nearest city is Osorno, 98 kilometers away....
  
  
• Coyhaique
  Coyhaique
  Coihaique , also spelled Coyhaique in Patagonia, is the capital city of both the Coihaique Province and the Aysén Region of Chile. Founded by settlers in 1929, it is a young city. Until the twentieth century, Chile showed little interest in exploiting the remote Aisén region...
  
  
• Valle Nevado
  Valle Nevado
  Valle Nevado is a popular ski resort located 46 kilometers east of Santiago, Chile.Valle Nevado is one of South America's most modern ski resorts...
  
  
• Pucon
  Pucón
  Pucón is a Chilean city and commune administered by the municipality of Pucón located in the Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region, 100 km to the southeast of Temuco and 780 km to the south of Santiago....
  
  
• Termas de Chillan
  Termas de Chillán
  Termas de Chillán is a town located 82 km east of the Chilean city of Chillán. It has a ski center and three hotels.-Ski center:The ski resort is located 1,650 meters above sea level and has 11 lifts serving 28 marked trails, and a total of 35 km runs over 10,000 hectares of...
  
  

Straits of Chile

• Beagle Channel
  Beagle Channel
  thumb|right|300px|Aereal view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean [[Navarino Island]] is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of [[Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego]] is seen at the bottom-left....
  
  
• Chacao Channel
  Chacao Channel
  The Chacao Channel is located in Los Lagos Region, Chile and separates Chiloé Island from mainland Chile. The channel was created during the Quaternary glaciations by successive glaciers that flowed down fron the Andes to the coast...
  
  
• Darwin Sound
  Darwin Sound
  The Darwin Sound is an expanse of seawater which forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America...
  
  
• Drake Passage
  Drake Passage
  The Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces—Sea of Hoces—is the body of water between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica...
  
  
• Moraleda Channel
  Moraleda Channel
  Moraleda Channel is a body of water separating the Chonos Archipelago from the mainland of Chile. It is located at . Southward from the mouth of the Aisén Fjord, Moraleda Channel divides into two arms. The east arm, called Canal Costa , is the main one...
  
  
• Strait of Magellan
  Strait of Magellan
  The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego...
  
  

Chile geography stubs

• Achibueno
  Achibueno
  Achibueno is a river, tributary of the Loncomilla, in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile, where it forms the border between the municipalities of Linares and Longaví....
  
  
• Aconcagua River
  Aconcagua River
  For other uses, see Aconcagua .The Aconcagua River is a river in Chile that rises from the joint of two minor tributary rivers at above sea level in the Andes, Juncal river from the east and Blanco river from the south east...
  
  
• Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins
  Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins
  Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins , popularly known as La Alameda , is Santiago, Chile's main avenue. It runs east-west in the center of the greater urban area and is 15 km long, and it has 5 lanes in each direction. It was named after Chile's founding father Bernardo O'Higgins...
  
  
• Alberto de Agostini National Park
  Alberto de Agostini National Park
  Alberto de Agostini National Park is a park located in the Chilean part of Tierra del Fuego. It covers and includes the Cordillera Darwin mountain range. The park is named after Alberto Maria De Agostini, who was an Italian missionary and explorer. Several tidewater glaciers and steep fjords form...
  
  
• Alto Hospicio
  Alto Hospicio
  Alto Hospicio is a Chilean municipality and commune located next to Iquique, in the Iquique Province, I Region. It is a fast growing popular area in the heights of Iquique, becoming the second commune of the Greater Iquique conurbation which as an estimated population of 275,000 in...
  
  
• Ancoa
  Ancoa
  Ancoa is a river, tributary of the Achibueno, in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile.-External links:*], Chile]...
  
  
• Ancud
  Ancud
  Ancud is a city in southern Chile located in the northernmost part of the island and province of Chiloé, in Los Lagos Region .-Geography:...
  
  
• Andacollo
  Andacollo
  Andacollo is a city and commune in the Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile.-History:Andacollo is a copper and gold mining city located in the mountains of the Small North in Chile. It was founded in 1891....
  
  
• Angol
  Angol
  Angol is a commune and capital city of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is located at the foot of the Nahuelbuta Range and next to the Vergara River, that permitted communications by small boats to the Bío-Bío River and Concepción. This strategic position explains...
  
  
• Antillanca
  Antillanca
  Antillanca is a ski resort in the Puyehue National Park in southern Chile. It is on the slope of the Casablanca Volcano. The nearest city is Osorno, 98 kilometers away....
  
  
• Antofagasta Province
  Antofagasta Province
  Antofagasta Province is one of three provinces in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta . The capital is the port city of Antofagasta. Located within the Atacama Desert, it borders the El Loa and Tocopilla provinces to the north, Bolivia to the west and the Atacama Region to the...
  
  
• Araucanía Region
  Araucanía Region
  The IX Araucanía Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south....
  
  
• Arauco Province
  Arauco Province
  Arauco Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . It spans a coastal area of just south of the mouth of the Biobío River, the traditional demarcation between the nation's major natural regions, Zona Central and Zona Sur...
  
  
• Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park
  Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park
  Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park is a national park located 667 kilometres west of Chile's mainland port of San Antonio, in the Juan Fernández Archipelago. The park covers 96 square kilometres and comprises the islands: Santa Clara, Alejandro Selkirk and the most part of the Robinson...
  
  
• Arica Province
  Arica Province
  Arica Province is one of two provinces of Chile's northernmost and most recently created region, Arica and Parinacota . The province is bordered on the north by the Tacna Province of Peru, on the south by the Tamarugal Province in the Tarapacá Region, on the east the Parinacota Province and on the...
  
  
• Arica and Parinacota Region
• Atacama Department
  Atacama Department
  Atacama was a department of Bolivia. It was lost to Chile in the War of the Pacific. It is now the Chilean Antofagasta Region....
  
  
• Atacama Region
  Atacama Region
  The Atacama Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces, Chañaral, Copiapó and Huasco. It is bordered to the north by Antofagasta, to the south by Coquimbo, to east with Provinces of Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan of Argentina, and to west with...
  
  
• Aisén Fjord
  Aisén Fjord
  Aisén Fjord is an ~70 km long fjord stretching east from a skerry-guarded region called Moraleda Channel , which is a body of water separating the Chonos Archipelago from the mainland of Chile. It is located at and is connected indirectly to the open coast of the Pacific Ocean via the Darwin...
  
  
• Aisén Region
• Baker River (Chile)
  Baker River (Chile)
  The Baker River is a river located in the Aisén Region of the Chilean Patagonia. It is Chile's largest river in terms of volume of water. The river flows out of Bertrand Lake, which is fed by General Carrera Lake. It runs along the east side of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field and empties into the...
  
  
• Barrio Suecia
  Barrio Suecia
  Barrio Suecia is a section of Santiago, Chile, centered around Calle Suecia , in the upscale Providencia municipality, which includes many pubs, discos and restaurants...
  
  
• Batuco
  Batuco
  Batuco is a locality of Chile, situated in the commune of Lampa, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region....
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins National Park
  Bernardo O'Higgins National Park
  Bernardo O'Higgins National Park is the largest of the protected areas in Chile, covering an area of in both the Aisén and Magallanes and Antártica Chilena regions. The park is named after General Bernardo O'Higgins, first head of state of the Republic of Chile...
  
  
• Biobío Province
  Biobío Province
  Biobío Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . Its capital is Los Ángeles . It is bounded on the north, west and south by the provinces of Concepción, Arauco and Malleco, respectively, and on the east by Argentina. It has an area of of well-wooded and mountainous...
  
  
• Brunswick Peninsula
  Brunswick Peninsula
  Brunswick Peninsula is a large peninsula in Magallanes y la Antártica Region, Patagonia, Chile, at . It is wide at its base in the north, and almost in the south. It measures in length from the base to Cape Froward, the southernmost point of the American mainland. This yields an area of more...
  
  
• Brüggen Glacier
  Brüggen Glacier
  Brüggen Glacier, also known as Pío XI Glacier, is in southern Chile and is the largest western outflow from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Now about in length, it is the longest glacier in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica...
  
  
• Buenos Aires/General Carrera Lake
  Buenos Aires/General Carrera Lake
  The Lake General Carrera or Lake Buenos Aires is a lake located in Patagonia and shared by Argentina and Chile...
  
  
• Bío-Bío Region
  Bío-Bío Region
  The VIII Biobío Region , one of the fifteen first-order administrative divisions in Chile, comprises four provinces: Arauco, Biobio, Concepción, and Ñuble.The capital of the Region is Concepción...
  
  
• Bío-Bío River
  Bío-Bío River
  The Biobío River is the second largest river in Chile. It originates from Icalma and Galletué lakes in the Andes and flows 380 km to the Gulf of Arauco on the Pacific Ocean....
  
  
• Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve
• Cabo de Hornos National Park
  Cabo de Hornos National Park
  Cabo de Hornos National Park is located in the Cape Horn Archipelago, which belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, in the Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. It was created in 1945 and includes the Wollaston Archipelago and the Hermite Islands. The park covers...
  
  
• Calama, Chile
  Calama, Chile
  Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the Antofagasta Region. Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just . The River Loa, Chile's longest, flows through the city...
  
  
• Caldera, Chile
  Caldera, Chile
  Caldera is a port city in the Copiapó Province of the Atacama Region in northern Chile. It has an excellent harbor, protected by breakwaters, being the port city for the productive mining district centering on Copiapó to which it is connected by the first railroad constructed in Chile.-Geography...
  
  
• Cape Froward
  Cape Froward
  Cape Froward is the southernmost point on the mainland of South America. It is located in the North shores of Magellan Strait, being the southern tip of the Brunswick Peninsula; in Chilean territory....
  
  
• Casa de Isla Negra
  Casa de Isla Negra
  Casa de Isla Negra was one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. It is located at Isla Negra, El Quisco, San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region about 85 km to the south of Valparaíso and 110 km to the west of Santiago. It was his favorite house and where he and his third wife, Matilde Urrutia...
  
  
• Castro, Chile
  Castro, Chile
  Castro is a city and commune in the Chilean island of Chiloé Island. Castro is the capital of the Chiloé Province in the Los Lagos Region. It is Chile's third oldest city in continued existence...
  
  
• Cauquenes
  Cauquenes
  Cauquenes, a city and commune in Chile, is the capital of the Cauquenes Province and is located in the Maule Region.-History:According to the historical records of Alonso de Ercilla, Cauquenes was originally inhabited by an indigenous community of the Promaucaes, known as the Cauqui by the Inca or...
  
  
• Cauquenes Province
  Cauquenes Province
  Cauquenes Province is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . The provincial capital is the city of Cauquenes.-Geography and demography:The provincial capital, Cauquenes, lies approximately southwest of Santiago...
  
  
• Cauquenes river
  Cauquenes river
  The Cauquenes River is a tributary of the Perquilauquén River, and traverses Cauquenes Province, in the Maule Region of Chile. It is born in the Cordillera de la Costa, near Cauquenes. After passing to the south of the latter city it is joined by the Tutuvén River...
  
  
• Cautín Province
  Cautín Province
  Cautín Province is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía , bounded on the north by Arauco and Malleco provinces, on the east by Argentina, on the south by Valdivia Province, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its population at the 2002 census was of 667,920. The most...
  
  
• Cautín River
  Cautín River
  The Cautín is a river in Chile. It rises on the western slopes of the Cordillera de Las Raíces and flows in Araucanía Region. The river's main tributary is the Quepe River. The city of Temuco is located on the Cautín River....
  
  
• Cañete
• Cementerio General de Chile
  Cementerio General de Chile
  The Cementerio General de Santiago, Chile is one of the largest cemeteries in Latin America with an estimated 2 million burials.The cemetery was established in 1820 after Chile's independence when Bernardo O'Higgins inaugurated the Alameda de las Delicias along the old course of the Mapocho River...
  
  
• Cerrillos (municipality)
  Cerrillos (municipality)
  Cerrillos is a census-designated commune of Chile in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation.-Administration:...
  
  
• Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
  Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
  Cerro Azul , sometimes referred to as Quizapu, is an active stratovolcano in the Maule Region of central Chile, immediately south of Descabezado Grande. Part of the South Volcanic Zone of the Andes, its summit is above sea level, and is capped by a summit crater that is wide and opens to the north...
  
  
• Cerro Bayo
• Cerro Escorial
• Cerro Navia
  Cerro Navia
  Cerro Navia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most densely populated communes of Santiago, Chile.- History :...
  
  
• Cerro Paranal
  Cerro Paranal
  Cerro Paranal , also known as Paranal Mountain is a mountain in the Atacama desert of northern Chile that is home to the Paranal Observatory. It is famous for hosting the Very Large Telescope and the VLT Survey Telescope. It is located 120 km west of Antofagasta and 80 km north of Taltal,...
  
  
• Cerro San Cristóbal
  Cerro San Cristóbal
  Cerro San Cristóbal is a hill in northern Santiago, Chile. It rises 880 m AMSL and about 300 m above the rest of Santiago; the peak is the second highest point in the city, after Cerro Renca. Its original indigenous name was Tupahue...
  
  
• Cerro Torre
  Cerro Torre
  Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile, west of Cerro Chalten . The peak is the highest in a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger , Punta Herron, and Cerro...
  
  
• Chacao Channel
  Chacao Channel
  The Chacao Channel is located in Los Lagos Region, Chile and separates Chiloé Island from mainland Chile. The channel was created during the Quaternary glaciations by successive glaciers that flowed down fron the Andes to the coast...
  
  
• Chañaral
  Chañaral
  Chañaral is a small coastal city and commune in the Atacama Region, Chile and capital of the Chañaral Province. A colourful town largely unknown by tourists, who generally head straight for towns such as San Pedro de Atacama. The town is considered unspoiled, with the benefit of having absolutely...
  
  
• Chile Chico
  Chile Chico
  Chile Chico is a town in General Carrera Province, Aisén Region, Patagonia, Chile. It is located on the south shore of General Carrera Lake...
  
  
• Chilean Sea
  Chilean Sea
  The Chilean Sea is the portion of the Pacific Ocean lying west of the Chilean mainland. The official Chilean usage for Chilean Sea was defined on May 30 of 1974 when the Diario oficial de la Republica de Chile published Supreme Decree #346, which declared that "the waters surrounding or touching...
  
  
• Chiloé Province
  Chiloé Province
  Chiloé Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . It encompasses all of Chiloé Archipelago with the exception of the Desertores Islands. The province spans a surface area of...
  
  
• Chimbarongo
  Chimbarongo
  Chimbarongo, Chile, is a city and commune located south of Santiago in the Colchagua Province of the O'Higgins Region. Many of the people of Chimbarongo make their living weaving wickerwork, or "mimbre", baskets.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Chonos Archipelago
  Chonos Archipelago
  Chonos Archipelago is a series of low mountainous elongated islands with deep bays, traces of a submerged Chilean Coast Range. Most of the islands are forested with little or no human settlement...
  
  
• Churches of Chiloé
  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 buildings of Chilota architecture. Unlike classical Spanish colonial architecture the churches of Chiloé are made entirely in native timber with extensive use of...
  
  
• Cochrane, Chile
  Cochrane, Chile
  Cochrane is a Chilean town and commune in Capitán Prat Province of the Aisén Region. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 2,867. The urban population in 2002 was 2,217 and the rural population was 650....
  
  
• Colchagua Province
  Colchagua Province
  Colchagua Province is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins . Its capital is San Fernando. It is bordered on the north by Cachapoal Province, on the east by the Argentine Republic, on the south by Curicó Province, and on the west by Cardenal Caro Province.-Geography and...
  
  
• Colina, Chile
  Colina, Chile
  Colina is a Chilean city and commune, capital of the Chacabuco Province, in the northern part of the Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Combarbala
  Combarbala
  Combarbalá is a Chilean city and commune, located in the Limarí Province, Coquimbo Region. The overall population of the commune is about 14.000 inhabitants, while the population of the city is about 6000 inhabitants...
  
  
• Conchalí
  Conchalí
  Conchalí is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a northwestern suburb of Santiago.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Constitución, Chile
  Constitución, Chile
  Constitución is a seaside resort, industrial city, minor port and commune in Chile, located in the Maule Region, Talca Province.-History:-8.8 magnitude 2010 earthquake:...
  
  
• Copahue
  Copahue
  Copahue is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile. There are nine volcanic craters along a line, and the eastern summit crater contains a briny, acidic 300 m wide crater lake...
  
  
• Copiapó
  Copiapó
  Copiapó is a city in northern Chile, located about 40 miles east of the coastal town of Caldera. Founded on December 8, 1744, it is the capital of Copiapó Province and Atacama Region....
  
  
• Coquimbo
  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 lies in a valley south of La Serena, with which it forms Greater La Serena with more than 400,000 inhabitants. The commune spans an area around the...
  
  
• Coquimbo Region
  Coquimbo Region
  The IV Coquimbo Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is some 400 km north of the capital, Santiago.The capital and largest city is La Serena, other important cities include the seaport Coquimbo and the agricultural centre...
  
  
• Cordillera Province, Chile
  Cordillera Province, Chile
  Cordillera Province is one of six provinces in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. Its topography includes a small area of Chile's central valley, glaciers, rivers, volcanoes, and the Andes range, which forms the border with Argentina...
  
  
• Cordillera de Talinay
  Cordillera de Talinay
  The Cordillera de Talinay is a mountain range situated in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. The range consists of a series of hills and foothills spreading more than 40 km in a north-south direction from the coast, but which descend to meet the Limari river as it crosses Chile's Intermediate Depression...
  
  
• Cordón del Azufre
  Cordón del Azufre
  Cordón del Azufre is a small, inactive complex volcano located on the Central Andes, at the border of Argentina and Chile.-External links:* - Volcanology at the University of North Dakota...
  
  
• Coronel, Chile
• Curepto
  Curepto
  Curepto is a town and commune in the Chilean Province of Talca, located in the VII Maule Region. The commune spans an area of .-Culture:The town has many examples of Chilean rural colonial architecture. Its parish church is a quintessential example of a traditional religious building in the...
  
  
• Curicó Province
  Curicó Province
  Curicó Province is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . Its capital is the city of Curicó. It lies between the provinces of Colchagua and Talca and extends from the Pacific to the Argentine frontier, spanning an area of...
  
  
• Dalcahue
  Dalcahue
  Dalcahue is a port town and a commune on Chiloé Island, Los Lagos Region, Chile.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute, the Dalcachue commune spans an area of and had 10,693 inhabitants; of these, 4,933 lived in urban areas and 5,760 in rural areas. At...
  
  
• Dawson Island
  Dawson Island
  Dawson Island is an island in the Strait of Magellan that forms part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, 100 km south of the city of Punta Arenas in Chile, and part of the Municipality of Punta Arenas. It is located southeast of Brunswick Peninsula and is an approximately 1290 km² tract...
  
  
• El Bosque (municipality, Chile)
  El Bosque (municipality, Chile)
  El Bosque is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The commune spans an area of .-Demographics:...
  
  
• El Monte (Chile)
  El Monte (Chile)
  El Monte is a Chilean city and commune in Talagante Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. As of 2007, it had a population of 29,568.-Geography:El Monte can be found in the Chilean Central Valley approximately southwest of the metropolitan area of Santiago...
  
  
• Elqui River
  Elqui River
  The Elqui River starts in the west Andes, flowing into the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Chilean city of La Serena, is a wine and pisco producing area...
  
  
• Empedrado, Talca
  Empedrado, Talca
  Empedrado is a town and commune in the Talca Province of Chile's Maule Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Empedrado spans an area of and has 4,225 inhabitants . Of these, 2,499 lived in urban areas and 1,726 in rural areas...
  
  
• Escondida
  Escondida
  Minera Escondida, which means 'hidden' in Spanish, is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world...
  
  
• Estación Central
  Estación Central
  Estación Central is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its name comes from the Estación Central railway station located in the commune.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Fagnano Lake
  Fagnano Lake
  Cami Lake is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile....
  
  
• False Cape Horn
  False Cape Horn
  False Cape Horn or Falso Cabo de Hornos is a headland at the south end of Hoste Island, 35 statute miles northwest of Cape Horn, located at . False Cape Horn is the southernmost point of the large islands of the Tierra del Fuego group, located close to the mainland of South America.At least 100...
  
  
• Falso Azufre
• Frutillar
  Frutillar
  Frutillar is a city and commune located in southern Chile in the Los Lagos Region. The bay of Frutillar is placed on the banks of Lake Llanquihue, the largest lake entirely within Chile.-History:...
  
  
• Futaleufú River
  Futaleufú River
  The Futaleufú River is a river fed by the lakes in the Los Alerces National Park in Chubut Province, Argentina, crossing the Andes Mountains and the international border into Chile and opening into the Yelcho Lake....
  
  
• Gran Valparaíso, Chile
• Guafo Island
  Guafo Island
  Guafo Island is an island located southwest of Chiloé Island and northwest of Chonos Archipelago, Chile. The island has a permanent population of only 4 Navy officers in a lighthouse that is run by the Chilean Navy. This island has some of timber estimated in 2000 to be worth $21 million USD....
  
  
• Guanaqueros
  Guanaqueros
  Guanaqueros is a Chilean town in the commune of Coquimbo, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located 12 kilometers from Tongoy. It is a fishermen's cove, which spreads along the eastern rim of the Cerro Guanaqueros , and with its houses built facing to the north in the direction of the Pacific...
  
  
• Guayaneco Archipelago
  Guayaneco Archipelago
  The Guayaneco Archipelago is an archipelago in southern Chile . It was heavily glaciated during the most recent ice age. These glaciers dissected these mountain islands into a series of deep river valleys and glacial troughs. Today these glacial troughs are deep channels and fjords...
  
  
• Gulf of Ancud
  Gulf of Ancud
  Gulf of Ancud is a large body of water separating the Chiloé Island from the mainland of Chile. It is located at .-External links:*...
  
  
• Gulf of Corcovado
  Gulf of Corcovado
  Gulf of Corcovado is a large body of water separating the Chiloé Island from the mainland of Chile. Geologically it is a foreland basin that has been carved out by Quaternary glaciers. A large population of blue whales is found there, and it is under threat from salmon farming....
  
  
• Hanga Roa
  Hanga Roa
  Hanga Roa is the main town, harbour and capital of the Chilean province of Easter Island. It is located in the southern part of the island's west coast, in the lowlands between the extinct volcanoes of Terevaka and Rano Kau....
  
  
• Hardy Peninsula
  Hardy Peninsula
  Peninsula Hardy is a peninsula at one of the most southerly extremes of South America. It is the southern landform which extends into the Drake Passage to make the Bahia Nassau. It is part of a large island called Hoste, next to Isla Navarino and Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego...
  
  
• Hermite Islands
  Hermite Islands
  The Hermite Islands are a group of Chilean islands in the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. They form part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region, at the southernmost end of South America...
  
  
• Hoste (island)
  Hoste (island)
  Hoste is one of the southernmost islands in Chile, lying south, across the Beagle Channel, from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and west of Navarino Island, from which it is separated by the Murray Channel. With an area of , Hoste is the second largest island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago,...
  
  
• Huara
  Huara
  Huara is a Chilean village and commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. It is located or northeast of Iquique. The village is crossed by the Pan-American Highway and is the crossing point for the road that goes to Oruro in Bolivia...
  
  
• Huechuraba
  Huechuraba
  Huechuraba is a city and commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.Huechuraba has a mild mediterranean climate: relatively hot dry summers with temperatures reaching up to on the hottest days; winters are more humid, with typical maximum daily temperatures of ,...
  
  
• Illapel
  Illapel
  Illapel is a Chilean city, which is the capital of the Choapa Province, Coquimbo Region. It lies along the Illapel River and marks the country's narrowest point along a parallel .It's located to the east of Los Vilos.-Administration:...
  
  
• Independencia (municipality, Chile)
  Independencia (municipality, Chile)
  Independencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Independencia spans an area of and has 65,479 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Iquique
  Iquique
  Iquique is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region. It lies on the Pacific coast, west of the Atacama Desert and the Pampa del Tamarugal. It had a population of 216,419 as of the 2002 census...
  
  
• Iquique Province
  Iquique Province
  Iquique Province is one of two provinces in the northern Chilean region of Tarapacá . Its capital is the port city of Iquique.-History:Until October 2007, the Province of Iquique was composed of 7 communes: High Hospice, Camina, Colchane, Huara, Iquique, Pica and Pozo Almonte, but since then, with...
  
  
• Isla Chañaral
  Isla Chañaral
  Isla Chañaral , Chile is located 6 km off-shore from the northern Central Chilean coast, some 100 km north of the city of La Serena. Together with Isla Choros and Isla Damas, the island forms the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve, which is administered by the Chilean Forestry Corporation...
  
  
• Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan...
  
  
• Itata River
  Itata River
  The Itata River flows in the Bío-Bío Region, southern Chile.Until the Conquest of Chile the Itata was the natural limit between the Mapuche, located to the south, and Picunche, to the north.-References:* . - External links :*...
  
  
• La Campana National Park
  La Campana National Park
  La Campana National Park is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, Quillota Province, in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. La Campana National Park and the Vizcachas Mountains lie northwest of Santiago...
  
  
• La Campana-Peñuelas
  La Campana-Peñuelas
  This Biosphere Reserve includes La Campana National Park and the Lago Peñuelas National Reserve. It is located in west-central Chile. Forests within the La Campana-Peñuelas are habitat for the Chilean Wine Palm, Jubaea chilensis, an endangered palm, which had a much broader distribution prior to...
  
  
• La Cisterna
  La Cisterna
  La Cisterna is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on 30 May 1925.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Dehesa
  La Dehesa
  La Dehesa is a suburban neighborhood located in the Chilean municipality of Lo Barnechea, in northeastern Greater Santiago. It is inhabited by high-income families and also known as the fanciest neighborhood in Santiago. The area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents.La...
  
  
• La Florida, Chile
• La Granja (municipality)
  La Granja (municipality)
  La Granja is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, La Granja spans an area of and has 132,520 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• La Pintana
  La Pintana
  La Pintana is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. La Pintana is home to Antumapu, the agricultural and veterinary sciences campus of University of Chile Chile's oldest university.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Reina
  La Reina
  La Reina is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was created in 1963 from an eastern portion of the Ñuñoa commune...
  
  
• Laguna San Rafael National Park
  Laguna San Rafael National Park
  Laguna San Rafael National Park is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it covers an area of and includes the Northern Patagonian Ice Field...
  
  
• Laguna Verde, Chile
  Laguna Verde, Chile
  Laguna Verde is a Chilean town in the commune of Valparaíso in Valparaíso Province, Valparaíso Region. The town itself is small and quiet, feeling quite removed from hustle and bustle of nearby Valparaiso. Attractions include secluded beaches and miles of old logging roads perfect for mountain...
  
  
• Laja Falls
  Laja Falls
  The Laja Falls is a waterfall located in the Laja River in southcentral Chile. It lies next to the old Pan-American Highway, between the cities of Los Ángeles and Chillán. It flows into a rocky canyon which has become very commercialized because of its location.-External links:*...
  
  
• Laja River (Chile)
  Laja River (Chile)
  Laja River is a river in Chile, along which can be found the Laja Falls. It is located in the Bío-Bío Region. The source of the river is Laguna del Laja in the Andes, then flows westward through the Chilean Central Valley and terminates into the Bío-Bío River, being an important tributary of...
  
  
• Lake Ballivián
• Lake Chungará
  Lake Chungará
  Chungará is a lake situated in the extreme north of Chile, in the Altiplano of Arica and Parinacota Region. It is the 29th highest lake in the world . It is near the volcanos Parinacota and Pomerape...
  
  
• Lake Llanquihue
  Lake Llanquihue
  Lake Llanquihue is the second largest lake in Chile with an area of about . It is situated in the southern Los Lagos Region in the Llanquihue and Osorno provinces. The lake's fan-like form was created by successive piedmont glaciers during the Quaternary glaciations...
  
  
• Lake Villarrica
  Lake Villarrica
  Lake Villarrica, also known as Mallolafquén , is located about 700 kilometers south of Santiago in Chile’s Lake District in the southeast area of the Province of Cautín...
  
  
• Lampa, Chile
  Lampa, Chile
  Lampa is a Chilean commune and city in the Chacabuco province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Lampa is situated near the Chicauma mountain range, part of which was added to the La Campana National Park.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Lanin
  Lanín
  Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-shaped stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile. It forms part of two national parks: Lanín in Argentina and Villarrica in Chile. It is a symbol of the Argentine province of Neuquén, being part of its flag and its anthem. Although the date of its last eruption...
  
  
• Las Condes
  Las Condes
  Las Condes is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid to high income families...
  
  
• Lascar Volcano
  Lascar Volcano
  -Geographical setting:Lascar is located in the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, east of the Salar de Atacama, immediately west of the Aguas Calientes volcano, and to the northeast of Laguna Lejía...
  
  
• Lastarria
  Lastarria
  Lastarria, also known as Azufre, is a stratovolcano along the border of Argentina and Chile....
  
  
• Lauca
  Lauca
  Lauca is a Biosphere Reserve, located in northern Chile, in Arica and Parinacota Region. The reserve comprises three protected areas: Lauca National Park, Las Vicuñas National Reserve and Salar de Surire Natural Monument. This zone was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1981.-References and...
  
  
• Lauca National Park
  Lauca National Park
  Lauca National Park is located in Chile's far north, in the Andean range. It encompasses an area of 1,379 km² of altiplano and mountains, the latter consisting mainly of enormous volcanoes. Las Vicuñas National Reserve is its neighbour to the south. Both protected areas, along with Salar de Surire...
  
  
• Lautaro (volcano)
  Lautaro (volcano)
  Lautaro Volcano is an active ice-covered stratovolcano located in Chilean Patagonia, in the northern part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Its summit rises more than above the average surface of the ice cap plateau. It is the tallest mountain in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park and in its...
  
  
• Lican Ray, Chile
• Licancabur
  Licancabur
  Licancabur is a highly symmetrical stratovolcano on the southernmost part of the border between Chile and Bolivia. It is located just southwest of Laguna Verde in Bolivia. The volcano dominates the landscape of the Salar de Atacama area...
  
  
• Licantén
  Licantén
  Licantén is a town within the Licantén commune, administered by the Municipality of Licantén within the Curicó Province in the Maule Region of Chile. The commune also include the coastal town of Iloca.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Linares Province
  Linares Province
  Linares is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . The provincial capital and most populous center is the city of Linares.-Administration:...
  
  
• Llanquihue Province
  Llanquihue Province
  Llanquihue Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Los Lagos . Its capital is Puerto Montt. Chile's second largest lake, Lake Llanquihue, is located in the province as well as four volcanoes: Osorno, Calbuco, Puntiagudo and Cerro Tronador....
  
  
• Lo Barnechea
  Lo Barnechea
  Lo Barnechea is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is home to some of Chile's fanciest neighborhoods comparable to Beverly Hills and River Oaks...
  
  
• Lo Espejo
  Lo Espejo
  Lo Espejo is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It has the country's largest population density.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Lo Prado
  Lo Prado
  Lo Prado is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Lo Prado spans an area of and has 104,316 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Loncomilla River
  Loncomilla River
  Loncomilla River is a tributary to the Maule river in Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile. Two rivers join to form the Loncomilla River: the Perquilauquén river and Longaví river.-External links:...
  
  
• Longaví
  Longaví
  Longaví is a Chilean city and commune located in Linares Province, one of the four provinces that make up the Maule Region, in the geographical center of Chile.-Geography:...
  
  
• Longaví River
  Longaví River
  The Longaví River is a tributary of the Maule River, in the Province of Linares, Maule Region of Chile. The Longaví is 120 km long.The Longaví rises in an Andean chain of north-south orientation at about 2,000 m of average altitude, but its main affluent, the Blanco river, drains the south-east...
  
  
• Los Andes, Chile
  Los Andes, Chile
  Los Andes, founded in July 31, 1791 as Santa Rosa de Los Andes, is a Chilean city and commune located in the province of the same name, in Valparaíso Region...
  
  
• Los Lagos Region
  Los Lagos Region
  Los Lagos Region is one of Chile's 15 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena. The region contains the country's second largest island, Chiloé, and the second largest lake, Llanquihue.Its capital is Puerto Montt;...
  
  
• Los Ruiles
  Los Ruiles
  "Los Ruiles National Reserve" is a small nature reserve located in the easternmost part of the municipality of Pelluhue, Province of Cauquenes, Maule Region, Chile...
  
  
• Los Vilos
  Los Vilos
  Los Vilos is both a Chilean coastal commune and a coastal city with over 9,000 inhabitants , located in the Province of Choapa, part of the IV Region of Coquimbo. Its main activity is fishing. The city also has a significant amount of tourism, mainly due to its two beaches: La Principal and Las...
  
  
• Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
  
• Lota, Chile
  Lota, Chile
  Lota is a city and commune located in the center of the Chile on the Gulf of Arauco. It lies within the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region.-History:...
  
  
• Macul
  Macul
  Macul is a commune of Chile located in the central-eastern part of Greater Santiago, bordered by the communes of Ñuñoa to the north, San Joaquín to the west, Peñalolén to the east and La Florida to the south....
  
  
• Maipo (volcano)
  Maipo (volcano)
  Maipo is a stratovolcano in the Andes, lying on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located south of Tupungato and about southeast of Santiago....
  
  
• Maipo Province
  Maipo Province
  Maipo Province is one of six provinces in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. Its capital is San Bernardo.-Administration:As a province, Maipo is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.-Communes:The...
  
  
• Maipú (municipality)
  Maipú (municipality)
  Maipú is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation. It was founded on February 16, 1821 and it is the place of the Battle of Maipú , where Chile's independence was consolidated...
  
  
• Malleco Province
• Mapocho River
  Mapocho River
  The Mapocho River flows from the Andes mountains onto the west and divides Chile's capital Santiago in two.-Course:...
  
  
• Marmolejo
  Marmolejo
  Volcán Marmolejo is a high Pleistocene stratovolcano in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located NNE of the active San José volcano, and has the distinction of being the southernmost -plus peak in the world.- See also :...
  
  
• Mataquito River
  Mataquito River
  Mataquito is a river located in the Province of Curicó, Maule Region of Chile and formed by the union of rivers Teno and Lontué about 10 kilometers west of Curicó near the locality of Sagrada Familia and empties into the Pacific Ocean south of the town of Iloca, Licantén.- Source :*...
  
  
• Maule (Chile)
  Maule (Chile)
  Maule is a town and commune in Talca Province in central Chile's Maule Region. It takes its name from the Mapudungun words for "valley" and "rainy" .-Geography:The town of Maule lies near the Maule River...
  
  
• Maule river
  Maule river
  The Maule river is one of the most important rivers of Chile and is inextricably linked to this country's pre-Hispanic times, the country's conquest, colonial period, wars of Independence, modern history, agriculture , culture , religion, economy and politics...
  
  
• Mejillones
  Mejillones
  Mejillones is a Chilean port city and commune in Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region. Its name is the plural form of the Spanish mejillón meaning "mussel", referring to a particularly abundant species and preferred staple food of its indigenous inhabitants. It is situated in the northern side...
  
  
• Mocha (island)
  Mocha (island)
  Mocha is a small Chilean island located west of the coast of Arauco Province in the Pacific Ocean. The island is approximately in area, with a small chain of mountains running roughly in north-south direction. In Mapuche mythology, the souls of dead people travel west to visit this island...
  
  
• Monte San Valentin
  Monte San Valentin
  Monte San Valentin, also known as Monte San Clemente, is the highest mountain in Chilean Patagonia and the highest mountain south of 40°S outside Antarctica. It stands at the north end of the North Patagonian Icefield....
  
  
• Monte Verde
  Monte Verde
  Monte Verde is an archaeological site in southern Chile, located in the northern Patagonia near Puerto Montt, Chile, which has been dated to 14,800 years BP . This dating adds to the evidence showing that settlement in the Americas pre-dates the Clovis culture by roughly 1000 years...
  
  
• Monturaqui crater
  Monturaqui crater
  Monturaqui is a meteorite crater in Chile. It is located south of the Salar de Atacama, in the Antofagasta Region.It is - in diameter, approximately m deep. The age is estimated to be approximately 660,000 years . The crater is exposed at the surface.-References:...
  
  
• Moraleda Channel
  Moraleda Channel
  Moraleda Channel is a body of water separating the Chonos Archipelago from the mainland of Chile. It is located at . Southward from the mouth of the Aisén Fjord, Moraleda Channel divides into two arms. The east arm, called Canal Costa , is the main one...
  
  
• Motu Nui
  Motu Nui
  Motu Nui is the largest of three islets just south of Easter Island and is the most westerly place in Chile. All three islets have sea birds but Motu Nui was also an essential location for the Tangata manu cult which was the island religion between the moai era and the Christian times...
  
  
• Mulchén
  Mulchén
  Mulchén is a city and commune in Biobío Province of Biobío Region, Chile. It was first settled in 1871 by soldiers during the so called Pacification of the Araucania. In 1875 Mulchén was officially founded....
  
  
• Northern Patagonian Ice Field
  Northern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, located in southern Chile, is the smaller of two remnant parts in which the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Andes Mountains of lower South America can be divided. It is completely contained within the boundaries of Laguna San Rafael National Park...
  
  
• O'Higgins Region
  O'Higgins Region
  The VI O'Higgins Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is subdivided into three provinces. It is named in honour of Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, one of Chile's founding fathers....
  
  
• O'Higgins/San Martín Lake
  O'Higgins/San Martín Lake
  The lake known as O'Higgins in Chile and San Martín in Argentina is located around coordinates in Patagonia, between the Aysén Region and the Santa Cruz Province....
  
  
• Ojos del Salado
  Ojos del Salado
  Nevado Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest volcano in the world at . It is also the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and the highest in Chile...
  
  
• Osorno Province
  Osorno Province
  Osorno Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . The province has an area of and a population of 221,509 distributed across seven communes . The provincial capital is the city of Osorno....
  
  
• Osorno, Chile
  Osorno, Chile
  Osorno is a city and commune in southern Chile and capital of Osorno Province in the Los Lagos Region. It had a population of 145,475, as of the 2002 census...
  
  
• Ovalle, Chile
  Ovalle, Chile
  Ovalle is a city in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, founded in 1831 as a settlement of more than 113,000 people. The name Ovalle was chosen to honor to Chile's vice-president José Tomás Ovalle...
  
  
• Palena Province
  Palena Province
  Palena Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . Due to the eruption of Chaitén Volcano and the subsequent destruction of Chaitén, Futaleufú is since March 2009 the new capital of Palena Province. The private Pumalín Park is located in the province as is...
  
  
• Pali-Aike National Park
  Pali-Aike National Park
  The Pali-Aike National Park is a park located in the Magallanes Region of the Chilean Patagonia. Pali-Aike is a Tehuelche name that means Desolate Place. Created in 1970, it covers an area of and includes part of the Pali-Aike Volcanic Field. The park draws its name from a prominent volcanic cone...
  
  
• Pali-Aike Volcanic Field
  Pali-Aike Volcanic Field
  Pali-Aike Volcanic Field is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene volcanic field in Patagonia on the Argentina–Chile border, located north of the Straits of Magellan about 150 km northeast of Punta Arenas, Chile. The volcanic field contains lake-filled maars, along with basaltic scoria cones and spatter...
  
  
• Paranal Mountain
• Parinacota, Chile
  Parinacota, Chile
  Parinacota is a small Chilean hamlet in Putre, Parinacota Province, Arica and Parinacota Region.-Location:It is situated on the highlands at a height of 4,400 m in Lauca National Park near the small town of Putre and had 29 inhabitants as of 2002.-Church:The church was built in the 17th century in...
  
  
• Parinacota Province
  Parinacota Province
  Parinacota Province is one of two provinces of the Chilean region of Arica and Parinacota . Its capital is Putre. It is named after the Parinacota Volcano.-History:...
  
  
• Parral, Chile
  Parral, Chile
  Parral is a city and commune and in the Linares Province of central Chile's seventh region of Maule.-History:Parral was founded in 1795 by the Viceroy of Peru, Ambrosio O'Higgins...
  
  
• Paso Libertadores
  Paso Libertadores
  The Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. It is the main transport route out of Chilean capital city Santiago into Mendoza city in Argentina and so carries quite heavy traffic.From the Argentine side the...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda (municipality)
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda (municipality)
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is named after President Pedro Aguirre Cerda.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Pelarco
  Pelarco
  Pelarco is a town and commune in Talca Province, Maule Region of Chile. The commune spans an area of .-Demographics:According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, Pelarco had 7,266 inhabitants; of these, 1,822 lived in urban areas and 5,444 in rural areas. At that time, there...
  
  
• Pencahue
  Pencahue
  Pencahue is a town and commune in Chile, located in Talca Province, in the seventh region of Maule. The commune spans and area of .Also there are another three places called Pencahue, near to San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Sexta Región, Chile...
  
  
• Penco
  Penco
  Penco is a Chilean city and commune in Concepción Province, Biobío Region on the Bay of Concepción. Founded as the city of Concepción del Nuevo Extremo on February 12, 1550 by Pedro de Valdivia, it is the third oldest city in the country after Santiago founded first in 1541 and La Serena second...
  
  
• Perquilauquén
  Perquilauquén
  The Perquilauquén River is a tributary of the Loncomilla river, in the Maule Region of Chile. The river joins the Longaví to form the Loncomilla, a tributary of the Maule river....
  
  
• Peru-Chile Trench
  Peru-Chile Trench
  The Peru-Chile Trench, also known as the Atacama Trench, is an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 160 kilometres off the coast of Peru and Chile...
  
  
• Peñalolen
  Peñalolén
  Peñalolén is a Chilean commune in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on November 15, 1984.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Peñalolén
  Peñalolén
  Peñalolén is a Chilean commune in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on November 15, 1984.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Pica, Chile
  Pica, Chile
  Pica is a Chilean town and commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. Situated in the inland of the Atacama Desert on an oasis, Pica is famous for its small and unusually acidic lemons. The town has a communal spring with a surface temperature of 40 °C, which makes it a popular bath place in...
  
  
• Pichidangui
  Pichidangui
  Pichidangui is a Chilean coastal town in the commune of Los Vilos in Choapa Province, Coquimbo Region, near the border with Valparaíso Region. The town has a significant amount of tourism due to its beaches. It is a popular destination for various windsports enthusiasts, thanks to the abundant wind...
  
  
• Picton, Lennox and Nueva
  Picton, Lennox and Nueva
  Picton, Lennox and Nueva is a group of three islands on the extreme south of South America, in the Chilean commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region...
  
  
• Pisagua, Chile
• Pisco Elqui, Chile
  Pisco Elqui, Chile
  Pisco Elqui is a Chilean village in the commune of Paihuano, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located in the Elqui Valley, 107 km east from La Serena, at about 1,300 metres above sea level....
  
  
• Pomerape
  Pomerape
  Pomerape is a stratovolcano lying on the border of Chile and Bolivia . It is part of the Nevados de Payachata complex of volcanoes together with Parinacota Volcano to the south. It is of Pleistocene age.Climbing the volcano is alpine AD grade, sometimes on 50+ degree snow/rubble slope...
  
  
• Pozo Almonte
  Pozo Almonte
  Pozo Almonte is a city and commune of Chile located in the Tamarugal Province, I Region of Tarapacá. It is the capital of this newly created province. The city is located at from the region's capital, Iquique. It has over 10,000 inhabitants...
  
  
• Providencia (municipality, Chile)
  Providencia (municipality, Chile)
  Providencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Part of Greater Santiago, it is bordered by the communes of Santiago to the west, Recoleta to the northwest, Las Condes and Vitacura to the northeast, La Reina to the east, and Ñuñoa to the south.In 2006...
  
  
• Province of Los Andes, Chile
  Province of Los Andes, Chile
  Los Andes Province is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso . The city of Los Andes is the capital of the province.-Administration:...
  
  

Subdivisions of Chile

• Electoral division of Chile
  Electoral division of Chile
  To elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate, Chile is divided into several electoral divisions, namely electoral districts and senatorial constituencies.-Electoral districts:...
  
  
• Municipalities of Chile
  Municipalities of Chile
  A commune is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile. It may contain cities, towns, villages, hamlets as well as rural areas. In highly populated areas, such as Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción, a conurbation may be broken into several communes...
  
  
• Provinces of Chile
  Provinces of Chile
  A province is the second largest administrative division in Chile, after a region. Each region is divided into provinces. There are 54 provinces in total....
  
  
• Regions of Chile

Tierra del Fuego

• Tierra del Fuego
  Tierra del Fuego
  Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...
  
  
• Alacaluf
  Alacaluf
  The Alacaluf are a South American people living in Chile on the Strait of Magellan , Chile. Their traditional language is known as Kawésqar.- Economy :They were a nomadic sea-faring people until the twentieth century...
  
  
• Beagle Channel
  Beagle Channel
  thumb|right|300px|Aereal view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean [[Navarino Island]] is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of [[Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego]] is seen at the bottom-left....
  
  
• Darwin Sound
  Darwin Sound
  The Darwin Sound is an expanse of seawater which forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America...
  
  
• Fagnano Lake
  Fagnano Lake
  Cami Lake is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile....
  
  
• Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan...
  
  
• Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino is a Chilean island located strategically between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and Cape Horn, to the south. The island forms part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, the southernmost commune in Chile and in the world, belonging to Antártica Chilena Province in the XII...
  
  
• Mount Darwin (Andes)
  Mount Darwin (Andes)
  Mount Darwin, the highest peak in Tierra del Fuego at forms part of the Cordillera of the Andes, South America, just to the north of the Beagle Channel. It is formed of crystalline schists and has massive glaciers down its steep southern slopes....
  
  
• Saraveca language
  Saraveca language
  Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave. It is said to be the only language with a numeral system based exclusively on five, though in fact quinary systems are not uncommon. To some extent this is also an areal feature of other South American languages; many...
  
  
• Selknam
• Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
  Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
  Tierra del Fuego Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena . It includes the Chilean part of the main island of Tierra del Fuego. There is also an Argentine province of the same name, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina...
  
  
• Yaghan language
  Yaghan language
  Yagán , also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people...
  
  

Cities and towns in Tierra del Fuego

• Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino is a Chilean island located strategically between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and Cape Horn, to the south. The island forms part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, the southernmost commune in Chile and in the world, belonging to Antártica Chilena Province in the XII...
  
  
• Porvenir
• Puerto Toro
  Puerto Toro
  Puerto Toro, founded 1892 by Governor of Punta Arenas Señoret is a hamlet on the eastern coast of Navarino Island, Chile.It belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region...
  
  
• Puerto Williams
  Puerto Williams
  Puerto Williams is a Chilean port, located on Isla Navarino facing the Beagle Channel. It is the capital of the Chilean Antarctic Province, one of four provinces located in the Magellan and Chilean Antartica Region...
  
  
• Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego
  Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego
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Volcanoes of Chile

• Acotango
  Acotango
  Volcán Acotango - is the central and highest of a group of stratovolcanoes straddling the border of Bolivia and Chile. The group is known as Nevados de Quimsachata and consists, apart of Acotango, of Volcán Humarata - to its north and Cerro Capurata - on its south.The group lies along a...
  
  
• Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
  Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
  Cerro Azul , sometimes referred to as Quizapu, is an active stratovolcano in the Maule Region of central Chile, immediately south of Descabezado Grande. Part of the South Volcanic Zone of the Andes, its summit is above sea level, and is capped by a summit crater that is wide and opens to the north...
  
  
• Cerro Bayo
• Calbuco (volcano)
• Chaiten
  Chaitén
  Chaitén is a Chilean town, commune and former capital of the Palena Province in Los Lagos Region. The town is located north of the mouth of Yelcho River, on the east coast of the Gulf of Corcovado...
  
  
• Copahue
  Copahue
  Copahue is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile. There are nine volcanic craters along a line, and the eastern summit crater contains a briny, acidic 300 m wide crater lake...
  
  
• Cordón del Azufre
  Cordón del Azufre
  Cordón del Azufre is a small, inactive complex volcano located on the Central Andes, at the border of Argentina and Chile.-External links:* - Volcanology at the University of North Dakota...
  
  
• Cerro Escorial
• Falso Azufre
• Guallatiri
  Guallatiri
  Guallatiri is one of the most active volcanoes in northern Chile. It is just west of the border with Bolivia and at the southwestern end of the Nevados de Quimsachata. It is a symmetrical 6,071 m high ice-clad stratovolcano...
  
  
• Hornopirén
  Hornopirén (volcano)
  Hornopirén is a stratovolcano located in the Andes, in Los Lagos Region of Chile, south of Yate Volcano and east of Apagado or Hualiaque pyroclastic cone. Hornopirén lies on the major regional Liquine-Ofqui Fault. The volcano is said to have erupted in 1835, although no details are known...
  
  
• Mount Hudson
  Mount Hudson
  Mount Hudson is a stratovolcano in southern Chile, and the site of one of the largest eruptions in the twentieth century. The mountain itself is covered by a glacier. There is a caldera at the summit from an ancient eruption; modern volcanic activity comes from inside the caldera...
  
  
• Irruputuncu
  Irruputuncu
  Irruputuncu is a stratovolcano which lies on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It is a relatively small peak, lying within the collapse scarp of a debris avalanche from earlier in the Holocene, which was built up by eruptions to fill much of that feature. There are two craters lying at the summit,...
  
  
• Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas
  Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas
  Sierra Nevada, also known as Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas, is a volcanic complex which lies in both Chile and Argentina. Some of the complex is of Holocene age, but there is also an older Pleistocene volcanism evident. The older material is to the east in Argentina. The complex lies in one of...
  
  
• Lanin
  Lanín
  Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-shaped stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile. It forms part of two national parks: Lanín in Argentina and Villarrica in Chile. It is a symbol of the Argentine province of Neuquén, being part of its flag and its anthem. Although the date of its last eruption...
  
  
• Lascar Volcano
  Lascar Volcano
  -Geographical setting:Lascar is located in the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, east of the Salar de Atacama, immediately west of the Aguas Calientes volcano, and to the northeast of Laguna Lejía...
  
  
• Lastarria
  Lastarria
  Lastarria, also known as Azufre, is a stratovolcano along the border of Argentina and Chile....
  
  
• Lautaro (volcano)
  Lautaro (volcano)
  Lautaro Volcano is an active ice-covered stratovolcano located in Chilean Patagonia, in the northern part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Its summit rises more than above the average surface of the ice cap plateau. It is the tallest mountain in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park and in its...
  
  
• Licancabur
  Licancabur
  Licancabur is a highly symmetrical stratovolcano on the southernmost part of the border between Chile and Bolivia. It is located just southwest of Laguna Verde in Bolivia. The volcano dominates the landscape of the Salar de Atacama area...
  
  
• Llullaillaco
  Llullaillaco
  Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world...
  
  
• Maipo (volcano)
  Maipo (volcano)
  Maipo is a stratovolcano in the Andes, lying on the border between Argentina and Chile. It is located south of Tupungato and about southeast of Santiago....
  
  
• Cerro Minchincha
  Cerro Minchincha
  Cerro Minchincha is a stratovolcano on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of an east-west trending ridge of stratovolcanoes. To its east lies Olca. The only historical activity from the complex was a flank eruption from 1865-1867....
  
  
• Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)
  Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)
  Sierra Nevada is a stratovolcano located in the Araucanía Region of Chile, near the Llaima volcano. Its last certain eruptions were in the Pleistocene period, but its activity may extend into the Holocene. Its primary lavas are andesitic and basaltic flows, although it has also produced pyroclastic...
  
  
• Nevados de Payachata
  Nevados de Payachata
  Nevados de Payachata is a north-south trending complex of potentially active volcanos on the border of Bolivia and Chile, directly north of Chungará Lake. The complex contains two peaks, Pomerape to the north and Parinacota to the south. According to helium surface dating, Parinacota has erupted...
  
  
• Nevados de Quimsachata
  Nevados de Quimsachata
  Nevados de Quimsachata Volcanic Complex is a -long volcanic group on a north-south alignment along the border between Bolivia and Chile, overseeing Chungara Lake...
  
  
• Ojos del Salado
  Ojos del Salado
  Nevado Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border and the highest volcano in the world at . It is also the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and the highest in Chile...
  
  
• Olca
  Olca
  Olca is a stratovolcano on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It lies in the middle of a 15 km long ridge composed of several stratovolcanos. Cerro Minchincha lies to the west and Paruma to the east. It is also close to the pre-Holocene Cerro Paruma. It is andesitic and dacitic in composition,...
  
  
• Volcán Osorno
  Volcán Osorno
  Osorno Volcano is a tall conical stratovolcano lying between Osorno Province and Llanquihue Province, in Los Lagos Region of Chile. It stands on the southeastern shore of Llanquihue Lake, and also towers over Todos los Santos Lake...
  
  
• Pali-Aike Volcanic Field
  Pali-Aike Volcanic Field
  Pali-Aike Volcanic Field is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene volcanic field in Patagonia on the Argentina–Chile border, located north of the Straits of Magellan about 150 km northeast of Punta Arenas, Chile. The volcanic field contains lake-filled maars, along with basaltic scoria cones and spatter...
  
  
• Parinacota Volcano
• Paruma
  Paruma
  Paruma is a stratovolcano that lies on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is part of a ridge that contains several stratovolcanos. Paruma lies at the eastern end of the ridge, with Olca to its west. The older volcano Cerro Paruma lies to east of Paruma. Paruma has clearly been active during the...
  
  
• Pomerape
  Pomerape
  Pomerape is a stratovolcano lying on the border of Chile and Bolivia . It is part of the Nevados de Payachata complex of volcanoes together with Parinacota Volcano to the south. It is of Pleistocene age.Climbing the volcano is alpine AD grade, sometimes on 50+ degree snow/rubble slope...
  
  
• Robledo (volcano)
• Socompa
  Socompa
  Socompa is a large complex stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It is best known for its large debris avalanche deposit, which is widely accepted as the best-preserved example of this type of deposit in the world, and also notable as the home of the world's most elevated known...
  
  
• Villarrica (volcano)
  Villarrica (volcano)
  Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes, rising above the lake and town of the same name. The volcano is also known as Rucapillán, a Mapuche word meaning "House of the Pillán". It is the westernmost of three large stratovolcanoes that trend perpendicular to the Andean chain along the...
  
  
• Yaté
  Yate (volcano)
  Yate Volcano is a large, glaciated stratovolcano located in the southern Andes, in the Los Lagos Region of Chile, south of the Reloncaví Estuary...
  
  

Government of Chile

• Carabineros de Chile
  Carabineros de Chile
  thumb|250px|Carabineros de Chile, patrolling a street in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]The Carabiniers of Chile, are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country...
  
  
• Chamber of Deputies of Chile
  Chamber of Deputies of Chile
  The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current constitution....
  
  
• Constitution of Chile
  Constitution of Chile
  In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta , to a civil one, with a time frame of eight...
  
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile
• Government Junta of Chile (1973)
  Government Junta of Chile (1973)
  Government Junta of Chile was the military junta established to rule Chile during the military dictatorship that followed the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. It was the executive and legislative branch of government until December 17, 1974...
  
  
• List of f
• National Congress of Chile
  National Congress of Chile
  The National Congress is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of Chile.The National Congress of Chile was founded on July 4, 1811...
  
  
• National Women's Service
  National Women's Service
  The National Women's Service , or SERNAM is a public service in Chile, a functionally decentralized organization, with its own funding, which is part of the cabinet-level Ministry of Planning and Cooperation under the President of Chile, created January 3, 1991 by the Law N° 19,023, with the goal...
  
  
• Royal Audiencia of Concepción
  Royal Audiencia of Concepción
  Before 1565, the highest court of Chile was the justicia mayor, whose sentences were appealed before the Royal Audiencia of Lima. In 1560 local authorities formally requested the president of the Audiencia of Lima for the creation of an audiencia for Chile...
  
  
• Royal Audiencia of Santiago
• Ministry General Secretariat of Government
• Senate of Chile
  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.-Composition:...
  
  
• Supreme Court of Chile
  Supreme Court of Chile
  The Supreme Court of Chile is the highest court in Chile. It also administrates the lower courts in the nation. It is located in the capital Santiago....
  
  

Foreign relations of Chile

• List of Ambassadors from New Zealand to Chile
• Beagle conflict
  Beagle conflict
  The Beagle Conflict was a border dispute between Chile and Argentina over the possession of Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands and the scope of the maritime jurisdiction associated with those islands that brought the countries to the brink of war in 1978....
  
  
• Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict
  Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict
  The Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict followed the failure of negotiations between Chile and Argentina, when, on 22 December 1978, the Argentinian Junta started Operation Soberanía, to invade Cape Horn and islands awarded to Chile by the Beagle Channel Arbitration...
  
  
• Beagle Channel Arbitration
  Beagle Channel Arbitration
  On 22 July 1971 Salvador Allende and Alejandro Lanusse, the Presidents of Chile and Argentina, signed an arbitration agreement . This agreement related to their dispute over the territorial and maritime boundaries between them, and in particular the title to the Picton, Nueva and Lennox islands...
  
  
• Direct negotiations between Chile and Argentina in 1977-78
  Direct negotiations between Chile and Argentina in 1977-78
  The direct negotiations between Chile and Argentina about the islands and maritime rights in Beagle conflict began after the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom announced on 2 May 1977 the judgement of the Beagle Channel Arbitration to the governments of both countries. The the islands and...
  
  
• Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict
  Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict
  The Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict followed the failure of negotiations between Chile and Argentina, when, on 22 December 1978, the Argentinian Junta started Operation Soberanía, to invade Cape Horn and islands awarded to Chile by the Beagle Channel Arbitration...
  
  
• Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina
  Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina
  The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina was signed into agreement at the Vatican on 29 November 1984.It was ratified...
  
  
• Beagle Channel cartography since 1881
  Beagle Channel cartography since 1881
  The region of the Beagle Channel, explored by Robert FitzRoy eighteen-thirties, was one of the last ones to be colonized by Chile and Argentina. The cold weather, the long distances from other inhabited regions and the shortage of transport and subsistence kept it far from the governmental task.In...
  
  

History of Chile

• History of Chile
  History of Chile
  The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 2,000 BC. By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to subdue and colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory became a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain...
  
  
• Alejandrina Cox incident
  Alejandrina Cox incident
  The Alejandrina Cox incident was a traffic incident involving General Carlos Prats, then Minister of the Interior for President Salvador Allende, that altered the course of Chilean history by helping launch to the Chilean coup of 1973.-Incident:...
  
  
• Alessandri family
  Alessandri family
  The Alessandri family of Chile is of Italian origin, became politically influential during the early part of the 20th century, and has played a significant role in Chilean politics. The first Alessandri who came to Chile was named Giuseppe Pietro Alessandri Tarzi...
  
  
• Allende stamps
  Allende stamps
  One of the first postage stamps to commemorate Salvador Allende, released after the 1973 coup in Chile, was the Soviet one. It was issued just two months after the event and had a circulation of 3.8 million. The issue was designed by the painter A...
  
  
• Alto de la Alianza
  Alto de la Alianza
  The Alto de la Alianza is a historical monument and landmark in the south of Peru, near the city of Tacna, where a crucial battle on May 26, 1880 took place. Bolivian forces in alliance with Peruvian forces battled against the Chilean Army, finally Bolivians retreating to the highlands, and...
  
  
• Antonio Samoré
• Arauco War
  Arauco War
  The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people in what is now the Araucanía and Biobío regions of modern Chile...
  
  
• Army of the Andes
  Army of the Andes
  The Army of the Andes was a military force created by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and mustered by general José de San Martín in his campaign to free Chile from the Spanish Empire...
  
  
• Slit Throats Case
• Burnt Alive Case
• Caravan of Death
  Caravan of Death
  The Caravan of Death 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. During this foray, members of the squad ordered or personally carried out the execution of at least 75...
  
  
• Carrera family
  Carrera family
  The Carrera family of Chile became politically influential during the colonial period, and played a significant role in Chilean Independence. They remained politically important throughout the 19th century...
  
  
• Chicago Boys
  Chicago Boys
  The Chicago Boys were a group of young Chilean economists most of whom trained at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Catholic University of Chile...
  
  
• Chile under Allende
  Chile under Allende
  Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was the first Marxist ever to be elected to the national presidency of a democracy...
  
  
• Chile under Pinochet
  Chile under Pinochet
  Chile was ruled by a military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 when Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'etat until 1990 when the Chilean transition to democracy began. The authoritarian military government was characterized by systematic suppression of political parties and...
  
  
• Chilean Civil War
  Chilean Civil War
  The Chilean Civil War of 1891 was an armed conflict between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the sitting President, José Manuel Balmaceda. The war saw a confrontation between the Chilean Army and the Chilean Navy, which had sided with the president and the congress, respectively...
  
  
• Chilean Revolution of 1829
  Chilean Revolution of 1829
  The Chilean Civil War of 1829 was an armed conflict between conservative Pelucones and liberal Pipiolos forces in Chile over the constitutional regime in force...
  
  
• Chilean coup of 1973
  Chilean coup of 1973
  The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event of the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist-leaning President Salvador Allende, discontent culminated in the latter's downfall in...
  
  
• Chilean political scandals
  Chilean political scandals
  A political scandal is a kind of political corruption that is exposed and becomes a scandal, in which politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices...
  
  
• City of the Caesars
  City of the Caesars
  The City of the Caesars , also variously known as City of the Patagonia, Wandering City, Trapalanda or Trapananda, Lin Lin or Elelín, is a mythical city of South America. It is supposedly located somewhere in Patagonia, in some valley of the Andes between Chile and Argentina...
  
  
• Colonia Dignidad
  Colonia Dignidad
  Villa Baviera , formerly known as Colonia Dignidad is a hamlet in Parral Commune, Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile. Located in an isolated area of central Chile, it lies 35 km southeast of the city of Parral, on the north bank of the Perquilauquén River. It was founded by a group of German...
  
  
• Operation Condor
  Operation Condor
  Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America...
  
  
• Covadonga (ship)
  Covadonga (ship)
  The schooner Virgen de Covadonga was a ship that participated in the Chincha Islands War and the War of the Pacific, under Spanish and Chilean flags. She was launched in 1859...
  
  
• Crossing of the Andes
  Crossing of the Andes
  The Crossing of the 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 leading to Chile's liberation from Spanish rule...
  
  
• DINA
• Economic history of Chile
  Economic history of Chile
  The economy of Chile has shifted substantially over time from the subsistence agriculture practised by its indigenous peoples to an early husbandry-oriented economy and finally to one of mining and agriculture. Chile started to industrialize in the 1930s with the creation of CORFO that established...
  
  
• Erasmo Escala
  Erasmo Escala
  Erasmo Escala Arriagada , Chilean soldier, served as commander-in-chief of the Army during part of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Valparaíso, where he also completed his first studies. He joined the Military Academy in 1837...
  
  
• Esmeralda (BE-43)
  Esmeralda (BE-43)
  Esmeralda is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine tall ship of the Chilean Navy, currently the second tallest and longest sailing ship in the world.- Construction :The ship is the sixth to carry the name Esmeralda...
  
  
• Pedro Espinoza Bravo
• Estadio Nacional de Chile
  Estadio Nacional de Chile
  The Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos is the national stadium of Chile, and is located in the Ñuñoa district of Santiago). It is the largest stadium in Chile with an official capacity of 47,000, and is part of a 62 ha sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a...
  
  
• Estadio Víctor Jara
  Estadio Víctor Jara
  Estadio Víctor Jara is the name of the former Estadio Chile, or Chile Stadium, in Santiago, Chile. The multi-use sports complex was renamed as a memorial to folk singer Víctor Jara, who was killed there, during the Chilean coup of 1973. It has a total capacity for an audience of 4,500 persons...
  
  
• Forced disappearance
  Forced disappearance
  In international human rights law, a forced disappearance occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the...
  
  
• Frei family
  Frei family
  The Frei family of Chile is formed by the descendants of Swiss Eduardo Frei Schlinz and Chilean Victoria Montalva Martínez. It became politically influential during the 20th century, and has played and still plays a significant role in Chilean politics...
  
  
• 1992 Galvarino
  1992 Galvarino
  Asteroid Galvarino was discovered on July 18, 1968 by Carlos Torres and S. Cofre at Cerro El Roble. It received the provisional designation 1968 OD....
  
  
• List of Government Juntas of Chile
• Charles Horman
  Charles Horman
  Charles Horman was an American journalist and was one of the victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, that deposed the socialist president, Salvador Allende, after bombing the Chilean presidential palace on September 11, 1973...
  
  
• Huaso (horse)
  Huaso (horse)
  Huaso was the horse that, ridden by Chilean Captain Alberto Larraguibel, set the high-jump world record on February 5, 1949, by jumping in Viña del Mar, Chile, one of the longest-running unbroken sport records in history * Color: Chestnut* Markings: Star, forehead* Height: * Sex: Stallion* Breed:...
  
  
• Juntas de Abastecimientos y Precios
  Juntas de Abastecimientos y Precios
  Juntas de Abastecimientos y Precios fueron unidades administrativas locales en Chile creadas a finales de 1972. Estas juntas utilizaron cartolas de abastecimiento, supuestamente con el fin de aliviar la escasez de alimentos y la especulación que había en ese entonces, también se encargaban de...
  
  
• Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia
  Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia
  The Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia was the name of a state and kingdom created in the 19th century by a French lawyer and adventurer named Orélie-Antoine de Tounens. Orélie-Antoine de Tounens claimed the regions of Araucanía and eastern Patagonia hence the name of kingdom...
  
  
• Kingdom of Chile
  Kingdom of Chile
  The General Captaincy of Chile or Gobernacion de Chile, was an administrative territory of the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Spanish Empire from 1541 to 1818, the year in which it declared itself independent, becoming the Republic of Chile...
  
  
• Liberal-Conservative Fusion (Chile)
  Liberal-Conservative Fusion (Chile)
  The Liberal-Conservative Fusion was an alliance between Chilean liberal and conservative political movements that existed from 1858 to 1873....
  
  
• Maitland Plan
  Maitland Plan
  Maitland Plan , refers to a plan created by Scottish Major General Thomas Maitland in 1800. The plan was titled Plan to capture Buenos Aires and Chile, and then emancipate Peru and Quito...
  
  
• Mapuche
  Mapuche
  The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...
  
  
• Massacre of Seguro Obrero
  Massacre of Seguro Obrero
  The Seguro Obrero massacre was the Chilean government's response to an attempted coup d'état by the National Socialist Movement of Chile, whose members were known at the time as nacistas.- Background :...
  
  
• Miracle of Chile
  Miracle of Chile
  The "Miracle of Chile" was a term used by free market Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman to describe liberal and free market reorientation of the economy of Chile in the 1980s, 1990s and the purported benefits of his style of economic liberalism...
  
  
• Missing (film)
  Missing (film)
  Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule...
  
  
• Montt family
  Montt family
  The Montt family of Chile became politically influential during the 19th century, and played a very significant role in Chilean politics; it is still important...
  
  
• National Party (Chile)
  National Party (Chile)
  There have been two "National Parties" in the history of Chile:*The National Party of 1857-1933, created by the supporters of President Manuel Montt and Interior Minister Antonio Varas, also known as Montt-varista Party....
  
  
• Chilean nationalization of copper
  Chilean nationalization of copper
  The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry commonly described as the Chilenización del cobre or "Chileanisation of copper," was the progressive process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the...
  
  
• Nueva Extremadura
  Nueva Extremadura
  Nueva Extremadura could refer to* a region in the north of New Spain, in present day Texas, the United States of America, and northern Mexico.* the name given to Chile by Pedro de Valdivia...
  
  
• Operation Colombo
  Operation Colombo
  Operation Colombo was an operation undertaken by the DINA in 1975. The operation involved the disappearance of political dissidents. At least 119 people are alleged to have been abducted and later killed by state forces in the secret operation...
  
  
• President of Chile
  President of Chile
  The President of the Republic of Chile is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Chile. The President is responsible of the government and state administration...
  
  
• Project Cybersyn
  Project Cybersyn
  Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973 . It was essentially a network of telex machines that linked factories with a single computer centre in Santiago, which controlled them using principles of cybernetics...
  
  
• Project FUBELT
  Project FUBELT
  Project FUBELT is the code name for the secret Central Intelligence Agency operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende rise to power before his confirmation, and promote a military coup in Chile....
  
  
• Rettig Report
  Rettig Report
  The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a 1991 report by a commission designated by then President Patricio Aylwin encompassing human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance that occurred in Chile during the years of military rule...
  
  
• Royal Governor of Chile
  Royal Governor of Chile
  The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district known as the Kingdom of Chile. This district was also called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General...
  
  
• Santiago meteorite
• Paul Schäfer
  Paul Schäfer
  Paul Schäfer Schneider was the founder and former leader of a sect and agricultural commune of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad —later renamed Villa Baviera—located in the south of Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago...
  
  
• Schneider Doctrine
  Schneider Doctrine
  Schneider Doctrine was a political doctrine originally espoused by Chilean General René Schneider, which allowed the election of Salvador Allende as President of Chile, and was the main ideological obstacle to a military coup d'état against him.-Background:...
  
  
• Scorpion scandal
  Scorpion scandal
  The Scorpion scandal was a smuggling, criminal and political scandal that caused the downfall of the Spanish Royal Governor of Chile, and hastened the Independence movement in that country.-Background:...
  
  
• Inés Suárez
  Inés Suárez
  Inés de Suárez, also called Inés Suárez, was a Spanish conquistadora and mistress to Pedro de Valdivia who participated in the Conquest of Chile, successfully defending Santiago against a Mapuche attack in 1541...
  
  
• Tanquetazo
  Tanquetazo
  El Tanquetazo or El Tancazo of 29 June 1973 are the names used to refer to the failed coup attempt in Chile led by Army Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Souper against the government of Socialist president Salvador Allende. It is called such because the rebelling officers primarily used tanks...
  
  
• Timeline of Chilean history
  Timeline of Chilean history
  This is a timeline of Chilean history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Chile. See also the list of governors and presidents of Chile.This timeline is incomplete; some important events may be missing...
  
  
• Operation TOUCAN (KGB)
  Operation TOUCAN (KGB)
  Operation TOUCAN was a KGB/DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military government of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet. According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin, the plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov...
  
  
• Michael Townley
  Michael Townley
  Michael Vernon Townley is a US citizen currently living in the United States under terms of the federal witness protection program. A Central Intelligence Agency agent and operative of the Chilean secret police, DINA, Townley confessed, was convicted, and served 62 months in prison in the United...
  
  
• Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command...
  
  
• Valech Report
  Valech Report
  The Valech Report was a record of abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The report was published on November 29, 2004 and detailed the results of a six-month investigation. A revised version was released on June 1, 2005...
  
  
• Valparaiso bombardment
  Valparaiso bombardment
  The Bombardment of Valparaíso on 31 March 1866 happened after the Chincha Islands War, when a Spanish fleet shelled, burned and destroyed the undefended port of Valparaíso.-Background:...
  
  
• Villa Grimaldi
  Villa Grimaldi
  Villa Grimaldi was a complex of buildings used for the interrogation and torture of political prisoners by DINA, the Chilean secret police, during the government of Augusto Pinochet. The complex was located in Peñalolén, in the outskirts of Santiago, and was in operation from mid-1974 to mid-1978...
  
  

Elections in Chile

• Elections in Chile
  Elections in Chile
  Chile holds nationwide presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections.The electoral process is supervised by the Electoral Service , which is independent from the government...
  
  
• Chilean National Plebiscite, 1980
  Chilean National Plebiscite, 1980
  The National Plebiscite in 1980 in Chile was a referendum held on September 11, 1980 to approve the 1980 Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile as a replacement for Chile's 1925 constitution. The result was 4,204,897 votes in favor and 1,893,420 votes against ratification...
  
  
• Chilean parliamentary election, 2005
  Chilean parliamentary election, 2005
  The 2005 Chilean parliamentary election took place on December 11, 2005, in conjunction with the presidential election. All of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were contested, while 20 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election . Deputies serve for a period of four years, while...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1826
  Chilean presidential election, 1826
  The Chilean presidential election of 1826 took place on July 8, 1826. The National Congress of Chile voted to elect the first President of the Republic of Chile....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1827
  Chilean presidential election, 1827
  The Chilean presidential election of 1827 took place on February 13, 1827 after the National Congress of Chile decided by vote to elect a new President....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1829
  Chilean presidential election, 1829
  The Chilean presidential election of 1829 took place on May 15-16 1829, through a system of electors.The newly enacted Constitution of 1828, provided that the President was to be chosen by electors. Two-hundred and sixteen electors, three for each congressman, were to be chosen...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1831
  Chilean presidential election, 1831
  The Chilean presidential election of 1831 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of General José Joaquín Prieto....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1836
  Chilean presidential election, 1836
  The Chilean presidential election of 1836 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the reelection as President of General José Joaquín Prieto.Prieto faced little opposition in this election and was easily reelected.-Results:Source: ...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1841
  Chilean presidential election, 1841
  The Chilean presidential election of 1841 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of General Manuel Bulnes....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1846
  Chilean presidential election, 1846
  The Chilean presidential election of 1846 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the unanimous election as President of General Manuel Bulnes.-Results:...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1851
  Chilean presidential election, 1851
  The Chilean presidential election of 1851 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Manuel Montt. Montt was the first non-military president....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1856
  Chilean presidential election, 1856
  The Chilean presidential election of 1856 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the reelection as President of Manuel Montt.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1861
  Chilean presidential election, 1861
  The Chilean presidential election of 1861 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of José Joaquín Pérez.Pérez was a "unity" candidate between the conservatives and liberals. He won the election unanimously....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1866
  Chilean presidential election, 1866
  The Chilean presidential election of 1866 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of José Joaquín Pérez.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1871
  Chilean presidential election, 1871
  The Chilean presidential election of 1871 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Federico Errázuriz Zañartu.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1876
  Chilean presidential election, 1876
  The Chilean presidential election of 1876 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Aníbal Pinto, who was the sole candidate.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1881
  Chilean presidential election, 1881
  The Chilean presidential election of 1881 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Domingo Santa María, who was the sole candidate.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1886
  Chilean presidential election, 1886
  The Chilean presidential election of 1886 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of José Manuel Balmaceda, who was the sole candidate.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1891
  Chilean presidential election, 1891
  The Chilean presidential election of 1891 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Jorge Montt, who was the sole candidate.-Results:-References:#...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1896
  Chilean presidential election, 1896
  The Chilean presidential election of 1896 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Federico Errázuriz Echaurren...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1901
  Chilean presidential election, 1901
  The Chilean presidential election of 1901 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election of Germán Riesco as President.-Results:Source: ...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1906
  Chilean presidential election, 1906
  The Chilean presidential election of 1906 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Pedro Montt.-Results:Source: ...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1920
  Chilean presidential election, 1920
  The Chilean presidential election of 1920 resulted in the election as President of Arturo Alessandri.-Popular vote:Carried out on June 25, 1920. -Electoral vote :Carried out on July 25, 1920.-Electoral vote :...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1925
  Chilean presidential election, 1925
  A presidential election was held in Chile on October 24, 1925. It was the first direct election of a President in the country's history, as mandated by the 1925 Constitution, promulgated on September 18 of that year. Presidents were previously elected by a group of directly elected...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1927
  Chilean presidential election, 1927
  A presidential election was held in Chile on May 22, 1927. Following President Emiliano Figueroa's resignation on April 7, 1927, Interior minister Carlos Ibáñez del Campo took his place as Vice President and called for elections. He competed with communist Elías Lafertte.-Results:Source:...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1931
  Chilean presidential election, 1931
  -Results:Source:...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1932
  Chilean presidential election, 1932
  The Chilean presidential election of 1932 was held on October 30 of that year between:* Former President Arturo Alessandri for the Liberal Party.* Former Head of State Marmaduque Grove for the Socialist Party....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1938
  Chilean presidential election, 1938
  A presidential election was held in Chile on October 25, 1938.-Results:* Withdrew candidacy before election and gave his support to Aguirre.Source:...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1942
  Chilean presidential election, 1942
  A presidential election was held in Chile on February 2, 1942. Juan Antonio Ríos was a member of the conservative wing of the Radical Party and defeated General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, portraying himself as a conservative anti-fascist candidate...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1946
  Chilean presidential election, 1946
  A presidential election was held in Chile on September 4, 1946 to elect the successor to Juan Antonio Ríos, who died in office in June of that year.-Popular vote:Source: -Congressional election:Source:...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1952
  Chilean presidential election, 1952
  A presidential election was held in Chile on September 4, 1952. It was the first presidential election where women were allowed to vote, after gaining the right in 1949...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1958
  Chilean presidential election, 1958
  A presidential election was held in Chile on September 4, 1958. Because none of the candidates obtained an absolute majority needed to win outright, a confirmation by Congress was carried out on October 24, 1958 to declare the winner.-Election:...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1964
  Chilean presidential election, 1964
  A presidential election was held in Chile on September 4, 1964. Christian Democratic candidate Eduardo Frei Montalva won the election by an absolute majority....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1970
  Chilean presidential election, 1970
  A presidential election was held in Chile on 4 September 1970. A narrow plurality was secured by Salvador Allende, the candidate of the Popular Unity coalition of leftist parties...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1989
  Chilean presidential election, 1989
  A presidential election was held in Chile on 14 December 1989. This was one of the key events in the conclusion of the military dictatorship.-Results:Source: . -See also:*Chilean coup of 1973*Salvador Allende - deposed by 1973 coup...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1993
  Chilean presidential election, 1993
  A presidential election was held in Chile on December 11, 1993. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of former president Eduardo Frei Montalva, won the election by absolute majority.-Results:Source: ....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1999-2000
  Chilean presidential election, 1999-2000
  A presidential election was held in Chile on December 12, 1999. None of the candidates achieved an absolute majority and a runoff election among the top two contenders was held on January 16, 2000. In the first round, a total of 7,271,572 Chileans cast their vote, of an electorate of 8,084,476...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 2005-2006
  Chilean presidential election, 2005-2006
  A presidential election took place in Chile on Sunday, December 11, 2005. None of the four candidates received an absolute majority, thus a runoff election among the top two candidates —Michelle Bachelet from the Coalition of Parties for Democracy and Sebastián Piñera from National Renewal— was...
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 2009
  Chilean presidential election, 2009
  The Chilean presidential election of 2009 was held on Sunday December 13, 2009. Based on the two-round system, since none of the candidates secured the absolute majority needed to take the presidency outright, a run-off between the two most-voted candidates —center-right Sebastián Piñera and...
  
  

Wars of Chile

• Arauco War
  Arauco War
  The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people in what is now the Araucanía and Biobío regions of modern Chile...
  
  
• War of the Confederation
  War of the Confederation
  The War of the Confederation , was a conflict between the Peru-Bolivian Confederation on one side and Chile, Peruvian dissidents and Argentina, on the other, fought mostly in the actual territory of Peru and which ended with a Confederate defeat and the dissolution of the...
  
  
• Chilean Civil War
  Chilean Civil War
  The Chilean Civil War of 1891 was an armed conflict between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the sitting President, José Manuel Balmaceda. The war saw a confrontation between the Chilean Army and the Chilean Navy, which had sided with the president and the congress, respectively...
  
  
• Chincha Islands War
  Chincha Islands War
  The Chincha Islands War was a series of coastal and naval battles between Spain and its former colonies of Peru and Chile from 1864 to 1866, that began with Spain's seizure of the guano-rich Chincha Islands, part of a series of attempts by Isabel II of Spain to reassert her country's lost...
  
  
• Chilean Independence
  Chilean Independence
  Chilean War of Independence was an armed conflict between pro-Independence criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile...
  
  
• War of the Pacific
  War of the Pacific
  The War of the Pacific took place in western South America from 1879 through 1883. Chile fought against Bolivia and Peru. Despite cooperation among the three nations in the war against Spain, disputes soon arose over the mineral-rich Peruvian provinces of Tarapaca, Tacna, and Arica, and the...
  
  

War of the Pacific

• War of the Pacific
  War of the Pacific
  The War of the Pacific took place in western South America from 1879 through 1883. Chile fought against Bolivia and Peru. Despite cooperation among the three nations in the war against Spain, disputes soon arose over the mineral-rich Peruvian provinces of Tarapaca, Tacna, and Arica, and the...
  
  
• Antofagasta Region
  Antofagasta Region
  The II Antofagasta Region is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces, Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla...
  
  
• Arica, Chile
  Arica, Chile
  Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 185,269 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica and Parinacota Region, located only south of the border with Peru. The city is the capital of both the Arica Province and the Arica and Parinacota Region...
  
  
• Atacama border dispute
  Atacama border dispute
  The Atacama border dispute was a dispute between Chile and Bolivia in the 19th century that ended in the transfer to Chile of all of the Bolivian Coast and the southern tip of Bolivia's ally Peru through the Treaty of Ancón with Peru and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and...
  
  
• BAP Atahualpa
• Biblioteca Nacional del Perú
  Biblioteca Nacional del Perú
  The Biblioteca Nacional del Perú is the national library of Peru, located in Lima. It is the country's oldest and most important library. Like the majority of Peruvian libraries, it is a non-circulating library.- History :...
  
  
• Covadonga (ship)
  Covadonga (ship)
  The schooner Virgen de Covadonga was a ship that participated in the Chincha Islands War and the War of the Pacific, under Spanish and Chilean flags. She was launched in 1859...
  
  
• Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
  Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
  The Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia is a private railway operating in the northern provinces of Chile. It is notable in that it was one of the earliest railways built to the gauge of , with a route that climbed from sea level to over , while handling goods traffic totaling near 2 million tons...
  
  
• Huáscar (ship)
  Huáscar (ship)
  Huáscar is a 19th century small armoured turret ship of a type similar to a monitor. She was built in Britain for Peru and played a significant role in the battle of Pacocha and the War of the Pacific against Chile before being captured and commissioned with the Chilean Navy. Today she is one of...
  
  
• BAP Manco Cápac
• Tacna
  Tacna
  - Rail :Tacna is served by a cross-border standard gauge railway to Arica, Chile.It is also the location of the National Railway Museum of Peru.-Air:Tacna is served by the Crnl. FAP...
  
  
• Tacna-Arica compromise
  Tacna-Arica compromise
  The Tacna–Arica compromise was a series of documents that settled the territorial dispute of both Tacna and Arica provinces of Peru and Chile respectively....
  
  
• Tarapacá Region
  Tarapacá Region
  The I Tarapacá Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It borders the Chilean Arica and Parinacota Region to the north, Bolivia's Oruro Department on the east, the Antofagasta Region on the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west. The port city of Iquique The I Tarapacá...
  
  
• Toro Submarino
  Toro Submarino
  The Toro Submarino was a Peruvian submarine developed during the War of the Pacific. While it was completely operational, the submarine never saw action before the end of the war, when it was scuttled to prevent its capture by Chilean troops.-Development:In 1864, an overseas German civil engineer...
  
  
• Treaty of Ancón
  Treaty of Ancón
  The Treaty of Ancón was signed by Chile and Peru on 20 October 1883, in the Ancón District near Lima. It was intended to settle the two nations' remaining territorial differences at the conclusion of their involvement in the War of the Pacific and to stabilise post-bellum relations between...
  
  
• USS Lackawanna (1862)
  USS Lackawanna (1862)
  The first USS Lackawanna was a screw sloop-of-war in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.Lackawanna was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 9 August 1862; sponsored by Ms. Imogen Page Cooper; and commissioned on 8 January 1863, Captain John B. Marchand in command...
  
  

Battles of the War of the Pacific

• Battle of Arica
  Battle of Arica
  The Battle of Arica, also known as Assault and Capture of Arica Cape, was a battle in the War of the Pacific. It was fought on 7 June 1880, between the forces of Chile and Peru....
  
  
• Bombardment of Callao
  Bombardment of Callao
  This article is for the Bombardment of Callao during the War of the Pacific, for the conflict during the Chincha Islands War see Battle of Callao.-The blockade:...
  
  
• Battle of Huamachuco
  Battle of Huamachuco
  The Battle of Huamachuco was fought on July 10, 1883, and it was the last major battle of the War of the Pacific. The Chilean soldiers led by Colonel Alejandro Gorostiaga decisively defeated the Peruvian army commanded by General Andrés Avelino Cáceres near the town of Huamachuco...
  
  
• Battle of Pisagua
  Battle of Pisagua
  The Battle of Pisagua , was a landing operation of the War of the Pacific, fought on November 2, 1879, between Chile and the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru. The Chilean army commanded by Erasmo Escala, supported by the Chilean Fleet, launched an amphibious assault, led by Gen...
  
  
• Battle of San Francisco
  Battle of San Francisco
  The Battle of San Francisco, also known as Battle of Dolores, fought on November 19, 1879, was the third battle of the Tarapacá Campaign in the War of the Pacific, after Pisagua and Germania...
  
  
• Battle of Tarapacá
  Battle of Tarapacá
  The Battle of Tarapacá occurred on November 27, 1879 during the Tarapacá Campaign of the War of the Pacific. A Chilean column of 2,300 soldiers led by General Luis Arteaga recklessly attacked an outnumbering Peruvian contingent of 4,500 troops at Tarapacá commanded by Gen Juan Buendía, resulting in...
  
  
• Battle of Topáter
  Battle of Topáter
  The Battle of Topáter was fought on March 23, 1879 between Chile and Bolivia, and was the first of the War of the Pacific.The Chileans were taking possession of the Antofagasta province, at that time a part of Bolivia. The Bolivian troops, quite few in number, decided to make a stand in the town...
  
  

Naval battles of the War of the Pacific

• Battle of Angamos
  Battle of Angamos
  The Battle of Angamos was fought on October 8, 1879, during the naval stage of the War of the Pacific . The Chilean Navy, commanded by Captain Galvarino Riveros and Captain Juan Jose Latorre surrounded and captured the ironclad Huáscar, commanded by Rear Admiral Miguel Grau Seminario, who died in...
  
  
• Battle of Chipana
  Battle of Chipana
  The Battle of Chipana took place on April 12, 1879, during the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru. It was the first naval engagement between both navies and it took place in front of Huanillos, off the Bolivian coast, as the Peruvian corvette Unión and gunboat Pilcomayo found the Chilean...
  
  
• Battle of Iquique
  Battle of Iquique
  The Battle of Iquique was a confrontation that occurred on May 21, 1879, during the naval stage of the War of the Pacific, a conflict between Chile and Peru and Bolivia. The battle took place off the, by then, Peruvian port of Iquique...
  
  
• Battle of Punta Gruesa
  Battle of Punta Gruesa
  The Battle of Punta Gruesa took place on May 21, 1879 during the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru. This may be labelled as the second part of the Naval Battle of Iquique, although it is described in many sources as a separate battle.-Context:...
  
  

War of the Pacific people

• Eduardo Abaroa
  Eduardo Abaroa
  Colonel Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo was Bolivia's foremost hero of the War of the Pacific , which pitted Chile against Bolivia and Peru...
  
  
• Francisco Bolognesi
  Francisco Bolognesi
  Francisco Bolognesi Cervantes was a Peruvian military hero. He is considered national hero in Peru and was declared patron of the Army of Peru by the government of Peru on January 2 of 1951.- Early life and education :...
  
  
• Manuel Baquedano
  Manuel Baquedano
  Manuel Jesús Baquedano González was a Chilean soldier and Chief of Government, who served as Commander-in-chief of the Army during the War of the Pacific. Manuel Baquedano was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Alberto Blest Gana
  Alberto Blest Gana
  Alberto Blest Gana was a Chilean novelist and diplomat, considered the father of Chilean novel. Blest Gana was of Irish and Basque descent....
  
  
• Mariano Bustamante
  Mariano Bustamante
  Mariano Emilio Bustamante y Mantilla was a Peruvian hero of the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru, fighting in the battles of San Francisco, Tarapacá and Arica, in which he was killed while combating....
  
  
• Ladislao Cabrera
  Ladislao Cabrera
  Ladislao Cabrera was a Bolivian hero during the War of the Pacific. Born in Totora, Cochabamba, Carrasco Province, he is famous for organising the defence of Calama against the Chilean invaders in the War of the Pacific....
  
  
• Andrés Avelino Cáceres
  Andrés Avelino Cáceres
  Andrés Avelino Cáceres Dorregaray was three times President of Peru during the 19th century, from 1884 to 1885, then from 1886 to 1890, and again from 1894 to 1895...
  
  
• Narciso Campero
  Narciso Campero
  General Narciso Campero Leyes was president of Bolivia from 1880 to 1884. The Narciso Campero Province was named after him.The offspring of a rich land-owning family from Tarija, he was educated at Chuquisaca's St...
  
  
• Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto is a Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Santiago, Chile; the son of José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla, of Basque descent, and of Emilia Pinto Benavente. He was the grandson of Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo, one of Chile's independence heroes...
  
  
• Melitón Carvajal
  Melitón Carvajal
  Manuel Melitón Carvajal Ambulodegui was born in Lima to Francisco Carvajal and Maria del Pilar Ambulodegui of Carvajal. He was a pupil of the school Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. In 1860 he entered the Naval Military School as a cadet, eventually rising to become a high-level naval officer and war...
  
  
• Hilarión Daza
  Hilarión Daza
  Hilarión Daza Groselle was President of Bolivia from 1876 to 1879.A career military officer and native of Sucre, Daza came to power on May 4, 1876 in a coup against the constitutional president Tomás Frías. He was supported by much of the country's financial elite because of his avowal to maintain...
  
  
• Abel Dupetit-Thouars
  Abel Dupetit-Thouars
  Abel-Nicolas Georges Henri Bergasse Dupetit Thouars was a French sailor, vice-admiral, saver of Lima and a hero in Peru.He was born in Bordeaux-en-Gâtinais, Loiret...
  
  
• Erasmo Escala
  Erasmo Escala
  Erasmo Escala Arriagada , Chilean soldier, served as commander-in-chief of the Army during part of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Valparaíso, where he also completed his first studies. He joined the Military Academy in 1837...
  
  
• Miguel Grau Seminario
  Miguel Grau Seminario
  Miguel María Grau Seminario was a renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific . He was known as the el Caballero de los Mares for his chivalry and is esteemed by both Peruvians and Chileans...
  
  
• Pedro Lagos
  Pedro Lagos
  Pedro Lagos Marchant was a Chilean infantry commander. He is best remembered for commanding the assault and capture of the city of Arica during the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juan José Latorre
  Juan José Latorre
  Juan José Latorre Benavente Chilean Vice Admiral, one of the principal actors of the War of the Pacific, and hero of the Battle of Angamos.-Early life:...
  
  
• Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a Rear Admiral in the Chilean navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of the Pacific...
  
  
• Lizardo Montero Flores
  Lizardo Montero Flores
  Lizardo Montero Flores was Vice President and President of Peru from 1881 to 1883, during the War of the Pacific.Lizardo Montero joined the Peruvian Navy in the decade of 1850. Seven years later, aboard the frigate Apurímac, he supported Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco's coup...
  
  
• Nicolás de Piérola
  Nicolás de Piérola
  H.E. Don Jose Nicolás Baltasar Fernández de Piérola y Villena was a prominent Peruvian politician, the Finance Minister and twice President of the Republic of Peru .-Early years:Nicolás de Piérola was born and educated in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa...
  
  
• Aníbal Pinto
  Aníbal Pinto
  Aníbal Pinto Garmendia was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1876 and 1881.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mariano Ignacio Prado
  Mariano Ignacio Prado
  Mariano Ignacio Prado Ochoa was twice the President of Peru, from 1865 to 1868 and 1876 to 1879).-Biography:Born in Huánuco in 1826, he entered the army at an early age and served in the provinces of Southern Peru....
  
  
• Arturo Prat
  Arturo Prat
  Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean navy officer. He was killed shortly after boarding the Peruvian armored monitor Huáscar at the Naval Battle of Iquique after the ship under his command, the Esmeralda, was rammed by the Peruvian monitor...
  
  
• Roque Sáenz Peña
  Roque Sáenz Peña
  Roque Sáenz Peña Lahitte was President of Argentina from 12 October 1910 to 9 August 1914, when he died in office...
  
  
• Domingo Santa María
  Domingo Santa María
  Domingo Santa María González was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1881 and 1886.-Early life:...
  
  
• Robert Souper
  Robert Souper
  Colonel Robert Souper Howard was an English soldier who served in the Chilean Army during most of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:Born in Harwich, England, son of Colonel William Souper and Emily Howard...
  
  
• Alfonso Ugarte
  Alfonso Ugarte
  Alfonso Ugarte was a Peruvian military commander during the War of the Pacific, between Peru and Bolivia against Chile. He ultimately rose to the rank of Colonel....
  
  
• Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo was a Chilean rear admiral who was the organizer and commander-in-chief of the Chilean navy at the beginning of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  

Battles of Chile

• Battle of Arica
  Battle of Arica
  The Battle of Arica, also known as Assault and Capture of Arica Cape, was a battle in the War of the Pacific. It was fought on 7 June 1880, between the forces of Chile and Peru....
  
  
• Bombardment of Callao
  Bombardment of Callao
  This article is for the Bombardment of Callao during the War of the Pacific, for the conflict during the Chincha Islands War see Battle of Callao.-The blockade:...
  
  
• First Battle of Cancha Rayada
  First Battle of Cancha Rayada
  The first battle of Cancha Rayada, sometimes termed the 'Disaster' or 'Surprise of Cancha Rayada', took place on 29 March, 1814, during the War of Chilean Independence.-Background:...
  
  
• Second Battle of Cancha Rayada
• Battle of Chacabuco
  Battle of Chacabuco
  The Battle of Chacabuco, fought during the Chilean War of Independence, occurred on February 12, 1817. The Army of the Andes of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata led by General Captain José de San Martín defeated the Spanish force led by Rafael Maroto...
  
  
• Disaster of Curalaba
  Disaster of Curalaba
  The Disaster of Curalaba is the name given to a battle between Spanish conquerors led by Martín García Óñez de Loyola and Mapuche people led by Pelantaru on a place called Curalaba , in southern Chile...
  
  
• Battle of Huamachuco
  Battle of Huamachuco
  The Battle of Huamachuco was fought on July 10, 1883, and it was the last major battle of the War of the Pacific. The Chilean soldiers led by Colonel Alejandro Gorostiaga decisively defeated the Peruvian army commanded by General Andrés Avelino Cáceres near the town of Huamachuco...
  
  
• Battle of Maipú
  Battle of Maipú
  The Battle of Maipú was a battle fought near Santiago, Chile on April 5, 1818 between South American rebels and Spanish royalists, during the Chilean War of Independence...
  
  
• Battle of the Maule
  Battle of the Maule
  The Battle of the Maule was fought between the Mapuche people and the Inca Empire in what is now Chile. The three-day battle, which is generally believed to have occurred in the reign of Tupac Inca Yupanqui , marked the end of the Incas' southward expansion.In a six-year campaign with an army that...
  
  
• Battle of Pisagua
  Battle of Pisagua
  The Battle of Pisagua , was a landing operation of the War of the Pacific, fought on November 2, 1879, between Chile and the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru. The Chilean army commanded by Erasmo Escala, supported by the Chilean Fleet, launched an amphibious assault, led by Gen...
  
  
• Disaster of Rancagua
  Disaster of Rancagua
  The Battle of Rancagua, also known as the Disaster of Rancagua occurred in October 1814 when the Spanish under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces....
  
  
• Battle of San Francisco
  Battle of San Francisco
  The Battle of San Francisco, also known as Battle of Dolores, fought on November 19, 1879, was the third battle of the Tarapacá Campaign in the War of the Pacific, after Pisagua and Germania...
  
  
• Battle of Tarapacá
  Battle of Tarapacá
  The Battle of Tarapacá occurred on November 27, 1879 during the Tarapacá Campaign of the War of the Pacific. A Chilean column of 2,300 soldiers led by General Luis Arteaga recklessly attacked an outnumbering Peruvian contingent of 4,500 troops at Tarapacá commanded by Gen Juan Buendía, resulting in...
  
  
• Battle of Topáter
  Battle of Topáter
  The Battle of Topáter was fought on March 23, 1879 between Chile and Bolivia, and was the first of the War of the Pacific.The Chileans were taking possession of the Antofagasta province, at that time a part of Bolivia. The Bolivian troops, quite few in number, decided to make a stand in the town...
  
  
• Battle of Tucapel
  Battle of Tucapel
  The Battle of Tucapel is the name given to a battle fought between Spanish conquistador forces led by Pedro de Valdivia and Mapuche Indians under Lautaro that took place at Tucapel, Chile on December 25, 1553...
  
  
• Battle of Yungay
  Battle of Yungay
  The Battle of Yungay effectively destroyed the Peru-Bolivian Confederation created by Bolivian Marshal Andrés de Santa Cruz in 1836...
  
  

Battles of the Chilean War of Independence

• First Battle of Cancha Rayada
  First Battle of Cancha Rayada
  The first battle of Cancha Rayada, sometimes termed the 'Disaster' or 'Surprise of Cancha Rayada', took place on 29 March, 1814, during the War of Chilean Independence.-Background:...
  
  
• Second Battle of Cancha Rayada
• Battle of Chacabuco
  Battle of Chacabuco
  The Battle of Chacabuco, fought during the Chilean War of Independence, occurred on February 12, 1817. The Army of the Andes of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata led by General Captain José de San Martín defeated the Spanish force led by Rafael Maroto...
  
  
• Battle of Maipú
  Battle of Maipú
  The Battle of Maipú was a battle fought near Santiago, Chile on April 5, 1818 between South American rebels and Spanish royalists, during the Chilean War of Independence...
  
  
• Disaster of Rancagua
  Disaster of Rancagua
  The Battle of Rancagua, also known as the Disaster of Rancagua occurred in October 1814 when the Spanish under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces....
  
  

Naval battles of Chile

• Battle of Papudo
  Battle of Papudo
  The Naval Battle of Papudo was a naval engagement fought between Spanish and Chilean forces on November 26, 1865, during the Chincha Islands War...
  
  

Naval battles of the Chincha Islands War

• Battle of Abtao
  Battle of Abtao
  The Naval Battle of Abtao took place on February 7, 1866, between a Spanish naval squadron and a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao in the Gulf of Ancud near Chiloé Archipelago in south-central Chile.-Background:...
  
  
• Battle of Callao
  Battle of Callao
  The Battle of Callao occurred on May 2, 1866 between a Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez and the fortified battery emplacements of the Peruvian port city of Callao during the Chincha Islands War...
  
  
• Battle of Papudo
  Battle of Papudo
  The Naval Battle of Papudo was a naval engagement fought between Spanish and Chilean forces on November 26, 1865, during the Chincha Islands War...
  
  

War of the Confederation

• War of the Confederation
  War of the Confederation
  The War of the Confederation , was a conflict between the Peru-Bolivian Confederation on one side and Chile, Peruvian dissidents and Argentina, on the other, fought mostly in the actual territory of Peru and which ended with a Confederate defeat and the dissolution of the...
  
  
• Republic of North Peru
  Republic of North Peru
  The Republic of North Peru was one of the three constituent Republics of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836-39.North Peru was formed from the division of the Republic of Peru into the Republic of North Peru and the Republic of South Peru...
  
  
• Republic of South Peru
  Republic of South Peru
  The Republic of South Peru was one of the three constituent Republics of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836-39.South Peru was formed from the division of the Republic of Peru into the Republic of North Peru and the Republic of South Peru...
  
  
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation
  Peru-Bolivian Confederation
  The Peru–Bolivian Confederation was a short-lived confederate state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839. Its first and only head of state, titled Supreme Protector, was the Bolivian president, Marshal Andrés de Santa Cruz....
  
  

War of the Confederation people

• José Ballivián
  José Ballivián
  José Ballivián was a Bolivian general during the Peruvian-Bolivian War and the 11th president of Bolivia from September 27, 1841 to December 23, 1847.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President .-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Bulnes
  Manuel Bulnes
  -Sources:* Juan B. Alberdi, Biografia de general Bulnes...
  
  
• Ramón Castilla
  Ramón Castilla
  Ramón Castilla y Marquesado was a Peruvian caudillo and President of Peru four times. His earliest prominent appearance in Peruvian history began with his participation in a commanding role of the army of the Libertadores that helped Peru become an independent nation...
  
  
• Agustín Gamarra
  Agustín Gamarra
  Agustín Gamarra Messia was a Peruvian soldier and politician, becoming twice President of Peru from 1829 to 1833 and from 1838 to 1841....
  
  
• Luis José de Orbegoso
  Luis José de Orbegoso
  Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada count De Olmos , an aristocratic Peruvian soldier and politician, was President of Peru from 1833 to 1836...
  
  
• Candelaria Perez
  Candelaria Perez
  Candelaria Pérez was a sergeant in the Chilean Army. She was part of the expeditionary forces sent to Peru to fight against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. She was considered the hero of the Battle of Yungay when she led an assault against the entrenched Confederate troops....
  
  
• Diego Portales
  Diego Portales
  Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the...
  
  
• José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto Vial was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1831 and 1841. José Joaquín Prieto was of Spanish and Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• José de la Riva Agüero
  José de la Riva Agüero
  José Mariano de la Riva Agüero y Sánchez Boquete Marquess De Montealegre de Aulestia was a Peruvian soldier, politician, historian and twice President of Peru....
  
  
• Andrés de Santa Cruz
  Andrés de Santa Cruz
  Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana was President of Peru and Bolivia...
  
  
• Robert Winthrop Simpson
  Robert Winthrop Simpson
  Robert Winthrop Simpson was a Rear-Admiral of the Chilean navy and a hero of the War of the Confederation.-Early life:...
  
  

War of Chilean independence

• Chilean Independence
  Chilean Independence
  Chilean War of Independence was an armed conflict between pro-Independence criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile...
  
  
• The Road to Maipo
  The Road to Maipo
  The Road to Maipo describes the events in the process of Chilean Independence between the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada and the Battle of Maipú in 1818.March 20 am...
  
  

Chilean War of Independence people

• Javiera Carrera
  Javiera Carrera
  Francisca Xaviera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo , better known as Javiera Carrera, was a member of one of the most aristocratic Chilean families, the Carrera family of Basque origin, who actively participated in the Chilean War of Independence...
  
  
• José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja...
  
  
• Luis Carrera
  Luis Carrera
  Colonel Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo was a Chilean military officer who fought in the Chilean War of Independence. Together with his brothers José Miguel and Juan José, they were some of most important leaders of Chilean struggle for independence...
  
  
• Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
  Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
  Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM , styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician....
  
  
• Ramón Freire
• Francisco de la Lastra
  Francisco de la Lastra
  General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile .-Biography:...
  
  
• Juan Mackenna
  Juan Mackenna
  Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army....
  
  
• Casimiro Marcó del Pont
  Casimiro Marcó del Pont
  Francisco Casimiro Marcó del Pont Ángel Díaz y Méndez was a Spanish soldier and the last Governor of Chile. He was one of the main figures of the Chilean independence process, being the final Spaniard to rule as Royal Governor of Chile from 1815 to 1817, when he was deposed and captured by the...
  
  
• Rafael Maroto/Translation
  Rafael Maroto/Translation
  Rafael Maroto Yserns was a Spanish general, known both for his involvement on the Spanish side in the wars of independence in South America and on the Carlist side in the First Carlist War.-Childhood and early life:...
  
  
• Juan Martinez de Rozas
  Juan Martinez de Rozas
  Juan Martínez de Rozas Correa was the earliest leader in the Chilean struggle for independence.He was born at Mendoza in 1759, the son of Juan Martínez de Soto Rozas and María Prudencia Correa Villegas. In his early life he was a professor of law, theology and philosophy at Santiago...
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  
• Mariano Osorio
  Mariano Osorio
  Mariano de Osorio was a Spanish general and Governor of Chile, from 1814 to 1815.-Early career:Osorio was born in Seville, Spain. He joined the Spanish army and as many of his contemporaries, his military career began during the Spanish Peninsular War in 1808 as an artillery general, as well as...
  
  
• Antonio Pareja
• Manuel Rodríguez
• José de San Martín
  José de San Martín
  José Francisco de San Martín, known simply as Don José de San Martín , was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes , he left his mother country at the...
  
  
• Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Field Marshal Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista , frequently misnamed Mateo de Toro y Zambrano in many Chilean history publications, was Viscount of La Descubierta and later Count of La Conquista...
  
  

Chincha Islands War

• Covadonga (ship)
  Covadonga (ship)
  The schooner Virgen de Covadonga was a ship that participated in the Chincha Islands War and the War of the Pacific, under Spanish and Chilean flags. She was launched in 1859...
  
  
• Valparaiso bombardment
  Valparaiso bombardment
  The Bombardment of Valparaíso on 31 March 1866 happened after the Chincha Islands War, when a Spanish fleet shelled, burned and destroyed the undefended port of Valparaíso.-Background:...
  
  

Chincha Islands War people

• Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President .-Biography:...
  
  
• Pedro Diez Canseco
  Pedro Diez Canseco
  Pedro Diez Canseco Corbacho was a Peruvian soldier and politician who became interim President of Peru on three occasions: 1863, 1865 and 1868.-See also:* List of Presidents of Peru...
  
  
• Mariano Melgarejo
  Mariano Melgarejo
  Manuel Mariano Melgarejo Valencia was the 19th President of Bolivia, from December 28, 1864, to January 15, 1871.-Early life:...
  
  
• Casto Méndez Núñez
  Casto Méndez Núñez
  Casto Secundino María Méndez Núñez , Spanish military naval officer. Born in Vigo . In 1866 during the Chincha Islands War between Spain, Peru and Chile, he was General Commander of the Spanish fleet in the Pacific...
  
  
• Lizardo Montero Flores
  Lizardo Montero Flores
  Lizardo Montero Flores was Vice President and President of Peru from 1881 to 1883, during the War of the Pacific.Lizardo Montero joined the Peruvian Navy in the decade of 1850. Seven years later, aboard the frigate Apurímac, he supported Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco's coup...
  
  
• Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan
  Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan
  Don Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duke of Tetuan, 1st Count of Lucena, 1st Viscount of Aliaga, Grandee of Spain, , was a Spanish general and statesman...
  
  
• Juan Manuel Pareja
  Juan Manuel Pareja
  Vice Admiral José Manuel de Pareja y Septien was a Spanish naval officer, who commanded the Spanish forces during the Chincha Islands War .-Youth and early career:...
  
  
• José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1861 and 1871....
  
  
• Juan Antonio Pezet
  Juan Antonio Pezet
  Juan Antonio Pezet was a Peruvian military officer and politician who served in the positions of Secretary of War, Vice President and President of Peru during his life...
  
  
• Mariano Ignacio Prado
  Mariano Ignacio Prado
  Mariano Ignacio Prado Ochoa was twice the President of Peru, from 1865 to 1868 and 1876 to 1879).-Biography:Born in Huánuco in 1826, he entered the army at an early age and served in the provinces of Southern Peru....
  
  
• Ramón María Narváez y Campos, 1st Duke of Valencia
  Ramón María Narváez y Campos, 1st Duke of Valencia
  Don Ramón María de Narváez y Campos, 1st Duke of Valencia was a Spanish soldier and statesman.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco
  Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco
  Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco Iturralde was a Peruvian politician and military leader who held the presidency of Peru from 1843 to 1844. He was born in Valparaíso, Chile...
  
  
• Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo was a Chilean rear admiral who was the organizer and commander-in-chief of the Chilean navy at the beginning of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  

Arauco War

• Arauco War
  Arauco War
  The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people in what is now the Araucanía and Biobío regions of modern Chile...
  
  

Arauco War people

• Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
• García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete
  García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete
  García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete was a Spanish soldier, governor of Chile, and viceroy of Peru...
  
  
• Lautaro (toqui)
• Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command...
  
  

Operation Condor

• Operation Condor
  Operation Condor
  Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America...
  
  
• Alianza Americana Anticomunista
  Alianza Americana Anticomunista
  The Alianza Americana Anticomunista was believed to be a paramilitary far-right group mainly operating in Colombia between 1978 and 1979.Contemporary accusations and declassified U.S...
  
  
• Alianza Anticomunista Argentina
  Alianza Anticomunista Argentina
  The Argentine Anticommunist Alliance was a right-wing death squad active in Argentina during the mid-1970s, particularly active under Isabel Perón's rule . Initially associated with the Peronist right, the organisation was bitterly in conflict with the Peronist left and other left organizations...
  
  
• Martín Almada
  Martín Almada
  Martín Almada is a lawyer, writer and educationalist from Paraguay. A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was a prisoner of the Alfredo Stroessner regime.-Biography:...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial
  Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial
  General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón on 10 October 1998. He was arrested in London six days later and finally released by the British government in March 2000...
  
  
• Batallón de Inteligencia 601
  Batallón de Inteligencia 601
  The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 was a special military intelligence service of the Argentine Army whose structure was set up in the late 1970s, active in the Dirty War and Operation Condor, and disbanded in 2000...
  
  
• Orlando Bosch
  Orlando Bosch
  Orlando Bosch Ávila was a Cuban exile militant, former Central Intelligence Agency-backed operative, and head of Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization". Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called...
  
  
• Caravan of Death
  Caravan of Death
  The Caravan of Death 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. During this foray, members of the squad ordered or personally carried out the execution of at least 75...
  
  
• Colonia Dignidad
  Colonia Dignidad
  Villa Baviera , formerly known as Colonia Dignidad is a hamlet in Parral Commune, Linares Province, Maule Region, Chile. Located in an isolated area of central Chile, it lies 35 km southeast of the city of Parral, on the north bank of the Perquilauquén River. It was founded by a group of German...
  
  
• Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations
  Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations
  Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations is an anti-Castro group founded by Cuban exiles Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo Sampoll and Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo....
  
  
• DINA
• Stefano Delle Chiaie
  Stefano Delle Chiaie
  Stefano Delle Chiaie is a neofascist Italian activist . He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspect to be involved in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, grandmaster of P2 masonic lodge...
  
  
• John Dinges
  John Dinges
  John Dinges was special correspondent for Time, Washington Post and ABC Radio in Chile. With a group of Chilean journalists, he cofounded the Chilean magazine APSI...
  
  
• Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención
  Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención
  thumb|250px|right|El Helicoide building in Caracas - old headquarters of SEBINSEBIN, the Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia , is the premier intelligence agency in Venezuela...
  
  
• Pedro Espinoza Bravo
• Forced disappearance
  Forced disappearance
  In international human rights law, a forced disappearance occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...
  
  
• Juan Guzmán Tapia
  Juan Guzmán Tapia
  Juan Salvador Guzmán Tapia is a retired Chilean judge who gained international recognition for being the first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, after Pinochet's return to Chile following more than a year of house arrest in London, in...
  
  
• Henry Kissinger
  Henry Kissinger
  Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
  
  
• Ed Koch
  Ed Koch
  Edward Irving "Ed" Koch is an American lawyer, politician, and political commentator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989...
  
  
• Peter Kornbluh
  Peter Kornbluh
  Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and of the Cuba Documentation Project.He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the FOIA, relating to the history of the U.S. Government's support for the Pinochet...
  
  
• Saul Landau
  Saul Landau
  Saul Landau is journalist, filmmaker, and commentator. He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies.-Career:...
  
  
• Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton Guzmán was a Chilean Christian Democrat who was targeted by Operation Condor.In 1937, President Arturo Alessandri Palma appointed him as Employment minister....
  
  
• Orlando Letelier
  Orlando Letelier
  Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Socialist President Salvador Allende...
  
  
• José López Rega
  José López Rega
  José López Rega was Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare during the Peronist government started in 1973 by Juan Perón and continued after Perón's death in 1974 by his third wife and vice-president, Isabel Martínez de Perón , until the coup d'etat of 1976 that initiated the so-called National...
  
  
• Kenneth Maxwell
  Kenneth Maxwell
  Kenneth Robert Maxwell is a British historian who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for fifteen years he headed its Latin America Studies Program...
  
  
• Montoneros
  Montoneros
  Montoneros was an Argentine Peronist urban guerrilla group, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The name is an allusion to 19th century Argentinian history. After Juan Perón's return from 18 years of exile and the 1973 Ezeiza massacre, which marked the definitive split between left and right-wing...
  
  
• Operation Colombo
  Operation Colombo
  Operation Colombo was an operation undertaken by the DINA in 1975. The operation involved the disappearance of political dissidents. At least 119 people are alleged to have been abducted and later killed by state forces in the secret operation...
  
  
• Operation TOUCAN (KGB)
  Operation TOUCAN (KGB)
  Operation TOUCAN was a KGB/DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military government of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet. According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin, the plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Luis Posada Carriles
  Luis Posada Carriles
  Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles is a Cuban-born Venezuelan anti-communist and former Central Intelligence Agency agent....
  
  
• Carlos Prats
  Carlos Prats
  General Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army...
  
  
• Otto Reich
  Otto Reich
  Otto Juan Reich , a Cuban-American, is former senior official in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush...
  
  
• Rettig Report
  Rettig Report
  The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a 1991 report by a commission designated by then President Patricio Aylwin encompassing human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance that occurred in Chile during the years of military rule...
  
  
• Virgilio Paz Romero
  Virgilio Paz Romero
  Virgilio Paz Romero is an anti-Castro Cuban exile, involved in various anti-communist acts. He has been accused of taking part in Operation Condor, carrying out Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's murder in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• SISMI
  SISMI
  Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare was the military intelligence agency of Italy from 1977-2007....
  
  
• Paul Schäfer
  Paul Schäfer
  Paul Schäfer Schneider was the founder and former leader of a sect and agricultural commune of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad —later renamed Villa Baviera—located in the south of Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago...
  
  
• Strategy of tension
  Strategy of tension
  The strategy of tension is a theory that describes how to divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist actions....
  
  
• Alfredo Stroessner
  Alfredo Stroessner
  Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whose name is also spelled Strössner or Strößner , was a Paraguayan military officer and dictator from 1954 to 1989...
  
  
• Terror archives
  Terror archives
  The "Archives of Terror" were found on December 22, 1992, by a lawyer, Dr. Martín Almada, and a human-rights activist and judge, José Agustín Fernández, in a police station in a suburb of Asunción , capital of Paraguay. Fernández was looking for files on a former prisoner...
  
  
• Juan José Torres
  Juan José Torres
  Juan José Torres González was a Bolivian socialist politician and military leader. He served as President of Bolivia from October 7, 1970 to August 21, 1971. He was popularly known as "J.J."...
  
  
• Michael Townley
  Michael Townley
  Michael Vernon Townley is a US citizen currently living in the United States under terms of the federal witness protection program. A Central Intelligence Agency agent and operative of the Chilean secret police, DINA, Townley confessed, was convicted, and served 62 months in prison in the United...
  
  
• Valech Report
  Valech Report
  The Valech Report was a record of abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The report was published on November 29, 2004 and detailed the results of a six-month investigation. A revised version was released on June 1, 2005...
  
  
• Cyrus Vance
  Cyrus Vance
  Cyrus Roberts Vance was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980...
  
  
• Jorge Rafael Videla
  Jorge Rafael Videla
  Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo is a former senior commander in the Argentine Army who was the de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón...
  
  
• Villa Grimaldi
  Villa Grimaldi
  Villa Grimaldi was a complex of buildings used for the interrogation and torture of political prisoners by DINA, the Chilean secret police, during the government of Augusto Pinochet. The complex was located in Peñalolén, in the outskirts of Santiago, and was in operation from mid-1974 to mid-1978...
  
  
• Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
  Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
  The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation , formerly the United States Army School of the Americas is a United States Department of Defense educational and training facility at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia in the United States...
  
  
• Robert White (ambassador)
  Robert White (ambassador)
  Robert E. White served as U.S. ambassador under different administrations. He is currently president of the Center for International Policy....
  
  

History of the foreign relations of Chile

• ABC Powers
• Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina
  Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina
  The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina was signed into agreement at the Vatican on 29 November 1984.It was ratified...
  
  
• Atacama border dispute
  Atacama border dispute
  The Atacama border dispute was a dispute between Chile and Bolivia in the 19th century that ended in the transfer to Chile of all of the Bolivian Coast and the southern tip of Bolivia's ally Peru through the Treaty of Ancón with Peru and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial
  Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial
  General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón on 10 October 1998. He was arrested in London six days later and finally released by the British government in March 2000...
  
  
• Baltimore Crisis
  Baltimore Crisis
  The Baltimore Crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States, during the Chilean Civil War, as result of the growing American influence in Pacific Coast region of Latin America in the 1890s. It remains a nodal event because it marked a dramatic shift in United...
  
  
• Beagle conflict
  Beagle conflict
  The Beagle Conflict was a border dispute between Chile and Argentina over the possession of Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands and the scope of the maritime jurisdiction associated with those islands that brought the countries to the brink of war in 1978....
  
  
• Chilean nationalization of copper
  Chilean nationalization of copper
  The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry commonly described as the Chilenización del cobre or "Chileanisation of copper," was the progressive process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the...
  
  
• Foreign relations of Chile
  Foreign relations of Chile
  Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the international political arena. Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and is an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on...
  
  
• Joel Roberts Poinsett
  Joel Roberts Poinsett
  Joel Roberts Poinsett was a physician, botanist and American statesman. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico , a U.S...
  
  
• Tacna-Arica compromise
  Tacna-Arica compromise
  The Tacna–Arica compromise was a series of documents that settled the territorial dispute of both Tacna and Arica provinces of Peru and Chile respectively....
  
  
• Treaty of Ancón
  Treaty of Ancón
  The Treaty of Ancón was signed by Chile and Peru on 20 October 1883, in the Ancón District near Lima. It was intended to settle the two nations' remaining territorial differences at the conclusion of their involvement in the War of the Pacific and to stabilise post-bellum relations between...
  
  
• United States intervention in Chile
  United States intervention in Chile
  The United States intervention in Chilean politics started during the War of Chilean Independence. The influence of the United States of America in both the economic and the political arenas of Chile has gradually increased over the almost two centuries since, and continues to be...
  
  

Colonial Chile

• Francisco de Aguirre (conquistador)
  Francisco de Aguirre (conquistador)
  Francisco de Aguirre was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.-Early life:...
  
  
• Diego de Almagro
  Diego de Almagro
  Diego de Almagro, , also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo , was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro. He participated in the Spanish conquest of Peru and is credited as the first European discoverer of Chile.Almagro lost his left eye battling with coastal...
  
  
• Lorenzo de Arrau
  Lorenzo de Arrau
  Lorenzo de Arrau belonged to the family of the famous Arrau painters and artists from Barcelona at the century.He was a Spanish engineer sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain....
  
  
• Caupolican
  Caupolican
  Caupolicán was a Toqui, the military leader of the Mapuche people of Chile, that commanded their army during the first Mapuche rising against the Spanish conquistadors from 1553 to 1558....
  
  
• Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo was a Mapuche leader in the early period of the Arauco War. He was a major figure in Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's epic poem La Araucana, about the early Arauco War. In the poem he was the one that proposed the contest between the rival candidates for Toqui that resulted in the choice of...
  
  
• Catalina de Erauso
  Catalina de Erauso
  Catalina de Erauso, also known as La Monja Alférez , was a semi-legendary personality of the Basque Country, Spain and Spanish America in the first half of the seventeenth century.- Life :Catalina de Erauso was daughter and sister of soldiers from the city of San Sebastián in Spain...
  
  
• Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
• Alonso García de Ramón
  Alonso García de Ramón
  Alonso García de Ramón was a Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile: first temporarily from July of 1600 to February of 1601, and then from March of 1605 to August of 1610. He was born in Cuenca, Spain in 1552....
  
  
• García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete
• Lautaro (toqui)
• Francisco López de Zúñiga
  Francisco López de Zúñiga
  Francisco López de Zúñiga y Meneses, 2nd Marquis of Baides and Count of Pedrosa was a Spanish soldier who served as Royal Governor of Chile from May of 1639 to May of 1646....
  
  
• Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva was an Argentinian marrano physician, who learned about his Jewishness through his father Diego Nuñez da Silva, who was a Jewish physician. Francisco studied the scriptures while he was a medical student. After a few years in Chile he decided to assume fully his...
  
  
• Luis Merlo de la Fuente
  Luis Merlo de la Fuente
  Luis Merlo de la Fuente Ruiz de Beteta was a Spanish colonial official who briefly served as the Royal Governor of Chile, in 1610–11.He was born in Valdepeñas, Spain to Luis Merlo de la Fuente and Maria Ruiz de Betena. He went to America, specifically Panama, in 1588 in the capacity of an oidor or...
  
  
• Michimalonco
  Michimalonco
  Michima Lonco was an indigenous chief said to be a great warrior, born in the Aconcagua Valley and educated in Cusco by the Inca Empire. He presented himself to the Spaniards, naked and covered by a black pigmentation...
  
  
• Juan Ignacio Molina
  Juan Ignacio Molina
  Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer...
  
  
• Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno
  Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno
  Ambrosio Bernardo O'Higgins, 1st Marquis of Osorno born Ambrose Bernard O'Higgins , was a member of the O'Higgins family and an Irish-born Spanish colonial administrator...
  
  
• Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  Domingo Ortíz de Rosas y García de Villasuso, 1st Marquis of Poblaciones was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of Chile.-As Governor of Chile:...
  
  
• Mariano Osorio
  Mariano Osorio
  Mariano de Osorio was a Spanish general and Governor of Chile, from 1814 to 1815.-Early career:Osorio was born in Seville, Spain. He joined the Spanish army and as many of his contemporaries, his military career began during the Spanish Peninsular War in 1808 as an artillery general, as well as...
  
  
• Rodrigo de Quiroga
  Rodrigo de Quiroga
  Rodrigo de Quiroga López de Ulloa was a Spanish conquistador of Galician origin. He was twice the Royal Governor of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Alonso de Ribera
  Alonso de Ribera
  Alonso de Ribera de Pareja was a Spanish soldier and twice Spanish royal governor of Chile .-Early life:...
  
  
• Martín Ruiz de Gamboa
  Martín Ruiz de Gamboa
  Martín Ruiz de Gamboa de Berriz was a Spanish Basque conquistador, and served as a Royal Governor of Chile.-Early years:He was born in Durango, Biscay, the son of Andrés Ruiz de Gamboa and Nafarra de Berriz, and served as a youth in the royal navy in the Levant...
  
  
• Inés Suárez
  Inés Suárez
  Inés de Suárez, also called Inés Suárez, was a Spanish conquistadora and mistress to Pedro de Valdivia who participated in the Conquest of Chile, successfully defending Santiago against a Mapuche attack in 1541...
  
  
• Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command...
  
  
• Francisco de Villagra
  Francisco de Villagra
  Francisco de Villagra Velázquez was a Spanish conquistador, and three times governor of Chile.-Early life:Born at [Santervás de Campos], he was the son of Alvaro de Sarría and Ana Velázquez de Villagra, who were not married. For this reason he took the name of his mother...
  
  
• Pedro de Villagra
  Pedro de Villagra
  Pedro de Villagra y Martínez was a Spanish soldier who participated in the conquest of Chile, being appointed its Royal Governor between 1563 and 1565....
  
  

Chile-related lists

• List of cities in Chile
• List of Chilean Flags
• List of Chilean freeways
• List of hospitals in Chile
• List of Chilean magazines
• List of national parks of Chile
• List of Chilean newspapers
• List of political parties in Chile
• List of people on stamps of Chile
• Timeline of Chilean history
  Timeline of Chilean history
  This is a timeline of Chilean history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Chile. See also the list of governors and presidents of Chile.This timeline is incomplete; some important events may be missing...
  
  
• List of Government Juntas of Chile

Chilean media

• .cl
  .cl
  .cl is the Internet country code top-level domain for Chile, and the Easter Islands. It is administered by the University of Chile. Registration of second-level domains under this TLD is open to anyone, however, foreign registrants must provide a domestic contact with a RUT, the Chilean national...
  
   Internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   country code top-level domain
  Country code top-level domain
  A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
  
   for Chile
• Informe Especial
  Informe Especial
  Informe especial is an investigative television newsmagazine from Chile. The program began in 1984 and, when in season, airs every Thursday night on TVN.Notable Anchormen:*Carlos Pinto *Santiago Pavlovic...
  
  
• List of Chilean magazines
• List of Chilean newspapers
• Sábado Gigante
  Sábado Gigante
  Sábado Gigante is a Spanish-language television show that is Univision's longest-running program and the longest-running variety TV show in the world. Sábado Gigante is an eclectic and frenetic mix of various contests, human-interest stories, and live entertainment...
  
  

Newspapers published in Chile

• List of Chilean newspapers
• The Clinic
  The Clinic
  The Clinic is a Chilean satirical/investigative newspaper founded by Patricio Fernández Chadwick in November 1998. The name was inspired by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's October 1998 arrest in Britain at The London Clinic, which bears the name The Clinic on its façade...
  
  
• La Cuarta
  La Cuarta
  La Cuarta is a Chilean daily tabloid part of the Copesa group. Both in style and content it is the closest the Chilean press comes to a good old-fashioned British Tabloid.The newspaper is famous for its tone and plebeian style of headlining stories....
  
  
• El Siglo (Chile)
• Fortín Mapocho
  Fortín Mapocho
  Fortín Mapocho , is a Chilean weekly electronic publication written by socialists who stand in the Allendista tradition, and who are critical of the Concertacionista socialists that presently govern the country....
  
  
• El Mercurio
  El Mercurio
  El Mercurio is a conservative Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's paper-of-record and its Valparaíso edition is the oldest daily in the Spanish language currently in circulation. El Mercurio is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P...
  
  
• La Prensa de Curicó
  La Prensa de Curicó
  La Prensa de Curicó , is a daily newspaper published in Curicó and owned by Empresa Periodística Curicó LTDA. This headquarters are located in Merced 373 Curicó, Chile. The newspaper was founded on November 13, 1898.-External links:...
  
  
• La Segunda
• La Tercera
  La Tercera
  La Tercera , formerly known as La Tercera de la Hora , is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is El Mercurios closest competitor....
  
  
• Las Últimas Noticias
  Las Últimas Noticias
  Las Últimas Noticias is a Chilean, daily middle market tabloid newspaper owned by El Mercurio SAP....
  
  

Television stations in Chile

• List of Chilean television channels
• ARTV (Chile)
  ARTV (Chile)
  ARTV is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile. It mostly airs cultural programming, such as the popular TV shows Endogao, Muchachas, and Caracas.See also List of Chilean television channels-External links:*...
  
  
• Canal del Fútbol (Chile)
  Canal del Fútbol (Chile)
  Canal del Fútbol, also known by its initials CDF, is a privately owned cable TV channel of Chile. It launched in 2003 and is owned by CDF S.A.-History:...
  
  
• CDtv
  CDtv
  Camara de Diputados Televisión or CDtv is a public owned cable TV channel in Chile. It broadcasts the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile live.-External links:...
  
  
• Canal 13 (Chile)
  Canal 13 (Chile)
  Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...
  
  
• Chilevisión
  Chilevisión
  CHV, also known as Chilevisión, is the third oldest television station in Chile. Formerly called Teleonce and RTU , this TV station was owned by University of Chile, a Chilean state university...
  
  
• Etc...TV
  Etc...TV
  Etc...TV is a Chilean cable TV channel currently owned by MEGA. The channel's slogan is "Todo pasa por Etc..." . Launched in 1996, the company was previously owned by Telefilms Ltda...
  
  
• Óptima Televisión
  Óptima Televisión
  Óptima Televisión or its acronym TVO, was a private terrestrial television channel in Chile. It is currently named Más Canal 22 which airs in Santiago in the 22 UHF frequency. It was previously owned by Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello....
  
  
• Red Televisiva Megavisión
  Red Televisiva Megavisión
  MEGA, formerly known as Red Televisiva Megavisión, is the first private TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 27 for HDTV.Among the many TV shows broadcast on MEGA are:...
  
  
• Compañía Chilena de Televisión
  Compañía Chilena de Televisión
  La Red, also known as La Red Chilena de Televisión, is a private TV channel in Chile. It was previously owned by Television Azteca S.A. De C.V. but it was later sold to Mexican businessman Remigio Ángel González. Previously called La Red , it mainly airs Hollywood blockbusters...
  
  
• TV Chile
  TV Chile
  TV Chile is a television network that transmits shows from Santiago, Chile. TV Chile is the international signal of Television Nacional de Chile ....
  
  
• TV Senado
  TV Senado
  TV Senado is a Brazilian television network responsible for broadcasting activity from the Brazilian Senate. It was created in 1996 by the Brazilian Senate.The channel broadcasts 24h from the Senate.-External links:*...
  
  
• TVN (Chile)
• TVU
• UCV TV
  UCV TV
  Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, UCV TV, is the oldest TV channel of Chile. Founded in 1957 , it currently airs in Santiago on channel 5. Its headquarters are in Viña del Mar, Chile where it broadcasts on channel 4 VHF. Also it owns VHF stations in La...
  
  
• Telecanal
  Telecanal
  Telecanal is a private owned TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on VHF channel 2. It mostly airs American films and TV series, and some original entertainment TV shows.-Controversy:...
  
  
• Via X
  Via X
  Via X is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile. It airs mostly rock music videos, mainly focusing in Chilean indie subculture. It airs talk shows and other programmes as well, but mainly centered in music. Its sister station is Zona Latina which airs Spanish music videos. It is owned by Edu...
  
  
• Zona Latina
  Zona Latina
  Zona Latina is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile. It airs mostly Spanish language music videos. Its sister station is Via X which airs English language music videos. It is owned by Edu Comunicaciones and is available on cable.-External links:...
  
  

Military of Chile

• Military of Chile
  Military of Chile
  Chile's armed forces are subject to civilian control exercised by the president through the Minister of Defense. Military service of 12 to 24 months is mandatory for all male citizens upon turning 18. This conscription service can be postponed for educational or religious reasons...
  
  
• Chilean Air Force
  Chilean Air Force
  The Chilean Air Force is the air force of Chile, a branch of the Chilean military.-History:The first step towards the current FACh was taken by Teniente Coronel Pedro Pablo Dartnell, when he founded the Servicio de Aviación Militar de Chile on December 20, 1910, being trained as a pilot in France...
  
  
• Chilean Army
  Chilean Army
  The Chilean Army is the land arm of the Military of Chile. This 45,000-person army is organized into seven divisions, a special operations brigade and an air brigade....
  
  
• Carabineros de Chile
  Carabineros de Chile
  thumb|250px|Carabineros de Chile, patrolling a street in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]The Carabiniers of Chile, are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country...
  
  
• Halcones
  Halcones
  Escuadrilla de Alta Acrobacia Halcones The High Aerobatics Squad Hawks, known simply as Hawks , is an active group of nine officers of the Chilean Air Force trained to do aerobatics. One of the Halcones signature moves is recreating Chilean flag in the air using smoke.The team flies the Extra 300...
  
  
• Chilean Navy
  Chilean Navy
  -Independence Wars of Chile and Peru :The Chilean Navy dates back to 1817. A year before, following the Battle of Chacabuco, General Bernardo O'Higgins prophetically declared "this victory and another hundred shall be of no significance if we do not gain control of the sea".This led to the...
  
  
• Unidad Anti-Terrorista
  Unidad Anti-Terrorista
  The Chilean Counter-Terrorism Unit or UAT is a tactical unit of the Chilean Air Force designated to handle terrorist threats....
  
  

Chilean military officers

• Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto is a Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Santiago, Chile; the son of José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla, of Basque descent, and of Emilia Pinto Benavente. He was the grandson of Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo, one of Chile's independence heroes...
  
  
• Luis Carrera
  Luis Carrera
  Colonel Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo was a Chilean military officer who fought in the Chilean War of Independence. Together with his brothers José Miguel and Juan José, they were some of most important leaders of Chilean struggle for independence...
  
  
• Pedro Espinoza Bravo
• Dagoberto Godoy
  Dagoberto Godoy
  Dagoberto Godoy Fuentealba was a Chilean pilot and the first person to fly over the Andes....
  
  
• Alberto Larraguibel
  Alberto Larraguibel
  Colonel Alberto Larraguibel Morales was a Chilean Army officer of Basque descent born in Angol, Chile. He remains the record holder for Puissance on Horseback, one of the longest-running unbroken sport records in history -- years as of .Then-Captain Larraguibel broke the record for the...
  
  
• Francisco de la Lastra
  Francisco de la Lastra
  General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile .-Biography:...
  
  
• Juan Mackenna
  Juan Mackenna
  Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army....
  
  
• Arturo Prat
  Arturo Prat
  Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean navy officer. He was killed shortly after boarding the Peruvian armored monitor Huáscar at the Naval Battle of Iquique after the ship under his command, the Esmeralda, was rammed by the Peruvian monitor...
  
  
• Manuel Rodríguez
• Robert Souper
  Robert Souper
  Colonel Robert Souper Howard was an English soldier who served in the Chilean Army during most of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:Born in Harwich, England, son of Colonel William Souper and Emily Howard...
  
  
• Roberto Souper
  Roberto Souper
  Lt. Colonel Roberto Federico Souper Onfray was a Chilean military officer who launched an unsuccessful coup d'état against the regime of Salvador Allende, surrounding the presidential palace with a tank regiment....
  
  
• José Antonio Vidaurre
  Jose Antonio Vidaurre
  Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre Garretón was a Chilean military officer who led a failed insurrection in 1837 that culminated in the assassination of minister Diego Portales....
  
  
• Klaus von Storch
  Klaus von Storch
  Klaus Bernhard von Storch Krüger is a Chilean aerospace engineer and astronaut trainee.Von Storch was born in Osorno, in southern Chile. In 1992, he was selected by the Chilean Space Agency for the preparation for the flight on the Space Shuttle...
  
  

Chilean generals

• Luis Altamirano
  Luis Altamirano
  Division General Luis Altamirano Talavera was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Arturo Miguel Bachelet Martínez was a Brigadier General of the Chilean Air Force. He opposed the 1973 coup of General Augusto Pinochet, and was imprisoned and subject to torture for several months until his death in 1974 of heart problems at the hands of the dictatorship.Bachelet was born...
  
  
• Manuel Baquedano
  Manuel Baquedano
  Manuel Jesús Baquedano González was a Chilean soldier and Chief of Government, who served as Commander-in-chief of the Army during the War of the Pacific. Manuel Baquedano was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bartolomé Blanche
  Bartolomé Blanche
  General Bartolomé Guillermo Blanche Espejo was a Chilean military officer and provisional president of Chile in 1932....
  
  
• Manuel Bulnes
  Manuel Bulnes
  -Sources:* Juan B. Alberdi, Biografia de general Bulnes...
  
  
• Julio Canessa
  Julio Canessa
  Lieutenant General Julio Canessa Roberts is a Chilean military and political figure. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the Army. He was also a designated Senator between 1998 and 2006....
  
  
• José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja...
  
  
• Juan Emilio Cheyre
  Juan Emilio Cheyre
  Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinoza is a retired Chilean Army General. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 2002 to 2006...
  
  
• Manuel Contreras
  Manuel Contreras
  Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda is a Chilean military officer and the former head of DINA, Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. As head of DINA he was the most powerful and feared man in the country, after Pinochet...
  
  
• Erasmo Escala
  Erasmo Escala
  Erasmo Escala Arriagada , Chilean soldier, served as commander-in-chief of the Army during part of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Valparaíso, where he also completed his first studies. He joined the Military Academy in 1837...
  
  
• Ramón Freire
• Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove Vallejo was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as dictator between 1927 and 1931 and as constitutional President from 1952 to 1958.- The coups of 1924 and 1925 :...
  
  
• Miguel Krasnoff
• Pedro Lagos
  Pedro Lagos
  Pedro Lagos Marchant was a Chilean infantry commander. He is best remembered for commanding the assault and capture of the city of Arica during the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  
• Gustavo Leigh
  Gustavo Leigh
  Air General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán was a Chilean general, who represented the Air Force in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and, for a time, in the ruling junta that followed. Leigh was forced out of the military government in 1978.-Biography:Leigh was born in Santiago, son of Hernán Leigh Bañados and...
  
  
• Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei Aubel is a retired Chilean Air Force General that was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after Gustavo Leigh was dismissed in 1978. Before he became a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government...
  
  
• César Mendoza
  César Mendoza
  General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the Carabineros de Chile....
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  
• Guillermo Pickering
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto y Díaz de la Puente was a Chilean political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1827 and 1829.-Early life:He was born in Santiago, the son of Joaquín Pinto and Mercedes Díaz de la Puente...
  
  
• Carlos Prats
  Carlos Prats
  General Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army...
  
  
• José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto Vial was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1831 and 1841. José Joaquín Prieto was of Spanish and Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• René Schneider
  René Schneider
  General René Schneider Chereau was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt. His murder virtually assured Salvador Allende's eventual overthrow and death in a coup three years later...
  
  
• Rodolfo Stange
  Rodolfo Stange
  General Rodolfo Stange Oelckers is a Chilean politician and former senator. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the police force . He was elected Senator in 1998, finishing his term in 2005.Stange was born in Puerto Montt, in the south of Chile...
  
  
• Camilo Valenzuela
  Camilo Valenzuela
  Camilo Valenzuela was a Chilean General and chief of the garrison in Santiago de Chile. In 1970 he led a group that with intent to stop the newly elected Salvador Allende from being inaugurated as president, tried to kidnap constitutionalist Army Commander-in-Chief René Schneider...
  
  
• Roberto Viaux
  Roberto Viaux
  Roberto Urbano Viaux Marambio was a Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempts in Chile in 1969 and 1970...
  
  

Chilean admirals

• Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President .-Biography:...
  
  
• Juan José Latorre
  Juan José Latorre
  Juan José Latorre Benavente Chilean Vice Admiral, one of the principal actors of the War of the Pacific, and hero of the Battle of Angamos.-Early life:...
  
  
• Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a Rear Admiral in the Chilean navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of the Pacific...
  
  
• José Toribio Merino
  José Toribio Merino
  José Toribio Merino Castro was one of the principal coup leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, along with General Augusto Pinochet of the Army, General Gustavo Leigh of the Air Force, and General Mendoza of the "Carabineros"...
  
  
• Raúl Montero
• Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt Álvarez was vice-admiral of the Chilean Navy and president of Chile from 1891 to 1896.-Early life:...
  
  
• Francisco Nef
  Francisco Nef
  Vice Admiral Francisco Nef Jara was a Chilean naval officer and member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Robert Winthrop Simpson
  Robert Winthrop Simpson
  Robert Winthrop Simpson was a Rear-Admiral of the Chilean navy and a hero of the War of the Confederation.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo was a Chilean rear admiral who was the organizer and commander-in-chief of the Chilean navy at the beginning of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  

Chilean military aircraft 1990-1999

Chilean fighter aircraft 1990-1999

• ENAER Pantera

Chilean fighter aircraft

Naval ships of Chile

• Almirante Condell 3
• Almirante Lynch 3
  Almirante Lynch 3
  Chilean frigate Almirante Lynch is a , the third ship of the Chilean Navy to bear the name.Her keel was laid down in December 1971, and she was launched on 6 December 1972, completed and delivered to the Chilean Navy on 25 May 1974....
  
  
• USS Charles J. Badger (DD-657)
  USS Charles J. Badger (DD-657)
  USS Charles J. Badger was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger ....
  
  
• Covadonga (ship)
  Covadonga (ship)
  The schooner Virgen de Covadonga was a ship that participated in the Chincha Islands War and the War of the Pacific, under Spanish and Chilean flags. She was launched in 1859...
  
  
• Huáscar (ship)
  Huáscar (ship)
  Huáscar is a 19th century small armoured turret ship of a type similar to a monitor. She was built in Britain for Peru and played a significant role in the battle of Pacocha and the War of the Pacific against Chile before being captured and commissioned with the Chilean Navy. Today she is one of...
  
  
• Chilean destroyer Ministro Portales
• O'Higgins (frigate)
  O'Higgins (frigate)
  O'Higgins was a Chilean frigate famous for her actions under Captain Lord Cochrane.-Russian career:The ship was launched in Russia in 1816, as Patrikii and was sold to Spain in 1817 and renamed to María Isabel.-Spanish career:...
  
  
• USS Spot (SS-413)
  USS Spot (SS-413)
  USS Spot was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for the spot, a small sciaenoid food fish of the Atlantic coast, with a black spot behind its shoulders....
  
  
• USS Springer (SS-414)
  USS Springer (SS-414)
  USS Springer was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named after the springer, a Grampus.Springer was laid down on 3 October 1943 at Vallejo, Calif., by the Mare Island Navy Yard; launched on 3 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. M. S...
  
  

World War I naval ships of Chile

World War I destroyers of Chile

• Almirante Condell
  Almirante Condell
  The Almirante Condell was a destroyer which served with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was the second ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name....
  
  
• Almirante Lynch
  Almirante Lynch
  The Almirante Lynch was a destroyer in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was named after Admiral Patricio Lynch, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific....
  
  

World War II naval ships of Chile

World War II battleships of Chile

• Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Almirante Latorre, named after Juan José Latorre, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy . She was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries...
  
  

World War II destroyers of Chile

• Chilean destroyer Aldea (1928)
• Almirante Condell
  Almirante Condell
  The Almirante Condell was a destroyer which served with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was the second ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name....
  
  
• Almirante Lynch
  Almirante Lynch
  The Almirante Lynch was a destroyer in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was named after Admiral Patricio Lynch, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific....
  
  
• Serrano class destroyer
  Serrano class destroyer
  The Serrano class was a series of six destroyers which served with Chilean Navy during World War II. Chile ordered the Serrano class from John I. Thornycroft & Company in the United Kingdom to enhance the Chilean Navy's ability to patrol its extensive coastline...
  
  

Cold War naval ships of Chile

Cold War battleships of Chile

• Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Almirante Latorre, named after Juan José Latorre, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy . She was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries...
  
  

Battleships of Chile

• Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Almirante Latorre, named after Juan José Latorre, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy . She was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries...
  
  

Cruisers of Chile

• USS Brooklyn (CL-40)
  USS Brooklyn (CL-40)
  USS Brooklyn was a light cruiser, the lead ship of her class of seven, and the third United States Navy ship to bear its name. She was launched on 30 November 1936 by New York Navy Yard; sponsored by Miss Kathryn Jane Lackey, daughter of Rear Admiral F. R. Lackey; and commissioned on 30 September...
  
  
• HMS Göta Lejon
  HMS Göta Lejon
  HMS Göta Lejon was the name of the last Swedish cruiser. Together with her sister ship , they were the largest ships ever to serve in the Royal Swedish Navy. In 1971 the Göta Lejon was sold to Chile were she was renamed Almirante Latorre and served in the Chilean Navy until 1984....
  
  
• USS Nashville (CL-43)
  USS Nashville (CL-43)
  USS Nashville , a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey; launched on 2 October 1937; sponsored by Misses Ann and Mildred Stahlman; and commissioned on 6 June 1938, Captain William W...
  
  

Destroyers of Chile

• HMS Antrim (D18)
  HMS Antrim (D18)
  HMS Antrim was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 19 October 1967. In the mid-1970s, the Royal Navy removed 'B' turret and replaced it with four Exocet launchers.-Falklands Conflict:...
  
  
• USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697)
  USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697)
  USS Charles S. Sperry , an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was named for Charles Stillman Sperry, the commanding officer of the . Sperry would later attain the rank of Rear Admiral....
  
  
• HMS Glamorgan (D19)
  HMS Glamorgan (D19)
  HMS Glamorgan was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy with a displacement of 5,440 tonnes. The ship was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle Upon Tyne and named after the Welsh county of Glamorgan. She was launched on 9 July 1964, and was delivered to the Navy two years later...
  
  
• Chilean destroyer Ministro Portales
• USS Rooks (DD-804)
  USS Rooks (DD-804)
  USS Rooks was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Captain Albert H. Rooks who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor after the Battle of Sunda Strait....
  
  
• USS Wadleigh (DD-689)
  USS Wadleigh (DD-689)
  USS Wadleigh was a of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh .Wadleigh was laid down on 5 April 1943 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 7 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Clara F. Wadleigh, daughter of RAdm. Wadleigh; and commissioned at the Boston Navy...
  
  

World War II military equipment of Chile

Chilean people

• Clarence Acuña
  Clarence Acuña
  Clárence Williams Acuña Donoso is a Chilean former professional football player. He played as a midfielder.- Chilean League :...
  
  
• Luis Advis
  Luis Advis
  Luis Advis Vitaglich was a Chilean professor of philosophy, and a noted composer of traditional and New Chilean music. He was officially recognized as a Fundamental Figure of Chilean Music in 2003.-Biography:...
  
  
• Carolina Aguilera
  Carolina Aguilera
  Carolina Aguilera is a Chilean journalist who lives in New York.Carolina Aguilera's first book was published by Planeta in September 2002. Our Heroes profiles the Latino firemen who died on September 11, 2001. This was the first time that Planeta, the largest of the Spanish-language publishers,...
  
  
• Memo Aguirre
  Memo Aguirre
  Juan Guillermo Aguirre , better known as Memo Aguirre, is a famous Chilean singer whose voice has been heard all over Latin America, particularly during the opening acts of superhero cartoon shows during the 1980s...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure. A member of the Radical Party, he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was triumphally elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941...
  
  
• Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...
  
  
• Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, and then again in 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938....
  
  
• Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970...
  
  
• Isabel Allende Bussi
  Isabel Allende Bussi
  María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean Socialist politician and the daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende, and his wife, Hortensia Bussi...
  
  
• Andrés Pascal Allende
  Andrés Pascal Allende
  Andrés Pascal Allende is a Chilean Marxist revolutionary and nephew of former President Salvador Allende. He is of Basque and Belgian descent.He was born in Santiago, the son of Gastón Pascal Lyon and of Laura Allende Gossens...
  
  
• Isabel Allende
  Isabel Allende
  Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
  
  
• Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
  
  
• Clodomiro Almeyda
  Clodomiro Almeyda
  Clodomiro Almeyda Medina was a Chilean politician. A leading member of the Socialist Party, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 1970 to 1973 during the Presidency of Salvador Allende....
  
  
• Eduardo Alquinta
  Eduardo Alquinta
  Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta was a singer in the folk group Los Jaivas, Chile's longest-surviving group. He died of a heart attack while on vacation in Coquimbo, Chile....
  
  
• Carlos Altamirano
  Carlos Altamirano
  Carlos Altamirano Orrego is a lawyer and one of the most influential politicians of Chilean socialism. He was the general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party between 1971 and 1979. Before that, he was deputy from 1961 to 1965 and senator from 1965 to 1973...
  
  
• Luis Altamirano
  Luis Altamirano
  Division General Luis Altamirano Talavera was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Cristián Andrés Álvarez Valenzuela
• Anacleto Angelini
  Anacleto Angelini
  Anacleto Angelini Fabbri was an Italian born, Chilean businessman. At the time of his death, he was South America's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of USD $6 billion. He was chairman at Antarchile, one of Latin America's largest conglomerates.-Life:Angelini was born in Ferrara,...
  
  
• Tom Araya
  Tom Araya
  Tom Araya is a Chilean musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer...
  
  
• Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...
  
  
• Lorenzo de Arrau
  Lorenzo de Arrau
  Lorenzo de Arrau belonged to the family of the famous Arrau painters and artists from Barcelona at the century.He was a Spanish engineer sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain....
  
  
• Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Arturo Miguel Bachelet Martínez was a Brigadier General of the Chilean Air Force. He opposed the 1973 coup of General Augusto Pinochet, and was imprisoned and subject to torture for several months until his death in 1974 of heart problems at the hands of the dictatorship.Bachelet was born...
  
  
• Michelle Bachelet
  Michelle Bachelet
  Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Social Democrat politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010. She was the first woman president of her country...
  
  
• Sergio Badilla Castillo
  Sergio Badilla Castillo
  Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...
  
  
• Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores was a Chilean poet, writer, and journalist.-Works:*Israel *Tercer mundo *Las cadenas vienen de lejos*Cuaderno de la Madre y del Nino...
  
  
• José Manuel Balmaceda
  José Manuel Balmaceda
  José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández was the 11th President of Chile from September 18, 1886 to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile...
  
  
• Manuel Baquedano
  Manuel Baquedano
  Manuel Jesús Baquedano González was a Chilean soldier and Chief of Government, who served as Commander-in-chief of the Army during the War of the Pacific. Manuel Baquedano was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rodrigo Barrera
• Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio "Tripa" Barrientos was a Chilean boxer, who won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. A year earlier he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. His nickname was Tripa...
  
  
• Eduardo Barrios
  Eduardo Barrios
  - Overview :After his father’s death, at the age of 5 his family moved to Lima until the age of 15 where he was the victim of harassment by his classmates. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood...
  
  
• Diego Barros Arana
  Diego Barros Arana
  Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana was an educator, diplomat and Chilean historian. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century and his most famous work is the General History of Chile...
  
  
• Ramón Barros Luco
  Ramón Barros Luco
  Ramón Barros Luco was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915.Barros Luco was born in 1835 in Santiago, Barros Luco was son of Ramón Luis Barros Fernández and Dolores Luco Fernández de Leiva. He graduated from Law School in 1858...
  
  
• Diego Barros
• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt was a Chilean composer.Becerra-Schmidt lived in Germany since 1973 and taught at Oldenburg University since 1974. Becerra was the most prolific Chilean composer...
  
  
• Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
  
  
• Andrés Bello
  Andrés Bello
  Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture...
  
  
• Tito Beltrán
  Tito Beltrán
  Ernesto Beltrán Aguilar better known as Tito Beltrán , is a Chilean-Swedish tenor. In October 2008, an appellate court in Sweden sentenced Beltrán to 2.5 years in prison for rape and sexual molestation of an underage child...
  
  
• Gregorio Billikopf
  Gregorio Billikopf
  Gregorio Billikopf is a mediator, author, and since 1981, a farm advisor specializing in labor management for the University of California, Davis. In May, 2005, Billikopf accepted a visiting faculty appointment as a professor of agricultural labor management at the University of Chile in Santiago...
  
  
• Bartolomé Blanche
  Bartolomé Blanche
  General Bartolomé Guillermo Blanche Espejo was a Chilean military officer and provisional president of Chile in 1932....
  
  
• Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President .-Biography:...
  
  
• Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes...
  
  
• Cecilia Bolocco
• María Luisa Bombal
  María Luisa Bombal
  María Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean author. Daughter of Martín Bombal Videla and Blanca Anthes Precht...
  
  
• Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
  Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
  Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. , he is an Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with mammalian promoters...
  
  
• Hans Braumüller
• Manuel Bulnes
  Manuel Bulnes
  -Sources:* Juan B. Alberdi, Biografia de general Bulnes...
  
  
• Claudio Bunster
  Claudio Bunster
  Claudio Bunster Weitzman is a Chilean scientist.Bunster studied Sciences at the University of Chile , Santiago and received his Ph.D in Physics from Princeton University, U.S. in 1973. He remained at the university, at the Institute for Advanced Study and also at the University of Texas, until 1984...
  
  
• Carlos Camus
  Carlos Camus
  Bishop Carlos Marcio Camus Larenas, emeritus bishop of the Linares, Chile and human rights advocate. He has been a proponent of excommunication for those guilty of torture....
  
  
• Julio Canessa
  Julio Canessa
  Lieutenant General Julio Canessa Roberts is a Chilean military and political figure. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the Army. He was also a designated Senator between 1998 and 2006....
  
  
• Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 to 1989....
  
  
• Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto is a Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Santiago, Chile; the son of José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla, of Basque descent, and of Emilia Pinto Benavente. He was the grandson of Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo, one of Chile's independence heroes...
  
  
• Javiera Carrera
  Javiera Carrera
  Francisca Xaviera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo , better known as Javiera Carrera, was a member of one of the most aristocratic Chilean families, the Carrera family of Basque origin, who actively participated in the Chilean War of Independence...
  
  
• José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja...
  
  
• Luis Carrera
  Luis Carrera
  Colonel Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo was a Chilean military officer who fought in the Chilean War of Independence. Together with his brothers José Miguel and Juan José, they were some of most important leaders of Chilean struggle for independence...
  
  
• Máximo Carvajal
  Máximo Carvajal
  Máximo Gorky Carvajal Belmar was a Chilean comic book artist.Carvajal was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He studied fine arts in Viña del Mar, later moving to Santiago to study applied arts. Carvajal worked in Chilean comics for nearly 50 years, creating the characters Dr. Mortis and Black...
  
  
• Xavier Castellà
• Daniela Castillo
  Daniela Castillo
  Daniela Castillo Vicuña is a Chilean female pop singer and actress born in Santiago. She debuted in 2002 as a solo artist on the Chilean TV show Rojo: Fama Contra Fama. She studied four years at the Alicia Puccio Academy where she met the casting crew for the TV show Rojo...
  
  
• Roberto Castillo
  Roberto Castillo
  Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean author. who currently teaches Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA...
  
  
• Carlos Catasse
  Carlos Catasse
  Carlos Catasse , born Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda in Santiago, Chile, formed his new last name by combining the first two letters of his first, middle and last names. Catasse is a Chilean painter of international recognition...
  
  
• Caupolican
  Caupolican
  Caupolicán was a Toqui, the military leader of the Mapuche people of Chile, that commanded their army during the first Mapuche rising against the Spanish conquistadors from 1553 to 1558....
  
  
• Juan Emilio Cheyre
  Juan Emilio Cheyre
  Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinoza is a retired Chilean Army General. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 2002 to 2006...
  
  
• Elicura Chihuailaf
  Elicura Chihuailaf
  Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán is a Mapuche Chilean poet and author whose works are written both in Mapudungun and in Spanish, and have been translated into many other languages as well...
  
  
• Abdón Cifuentes
  Abdón Cifuentes
  Abdón Cifuentes Espinoza was one of Chile's most significant Catholic politicians in the nineteenth century.He was the son of José Maria Cifuentes Olivares and Paula Espinoza Pinto in San Felipe, Chile. He married Luz Gómez, with whom he fathered 13 children...
  
  
• S. Cofre
  S. Cofre
  S. Cofré is or was formally an astronomer of the University of Chile. In 1968, he co-discovered the asteroid Gilhutton from the Cerro El Roble astronomical observatory.- References :...
  
  
• Francisco Coloane
  Francisco Coloane
  Francisco Coloane Cárdenas was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages...
  
  
• Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo was a Mapuche leader in the early period of the Arauco War. He was a major figure in Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's epic poem La Araucana, about the early Arauco War. In the poem he was the one that proposed the contest between the rival candidates for Toqui that resulted in the choice of...
  
  
• Manuel Contreras
  Manuel Contreras
  Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda is a Chilean military officer and the former head of DINA, Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. As head of DINA he was the most powerful and feared man in the country, after Pinochet...
  
  
• Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras is a well-known Chilean-Argentine film actor.-Life and work:Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter...
  
  
• Luis Corvalán
  Luis Corvalán
  Luis Alberto Corvalán Lepe was a Chilean politician. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile ....
  
  
• Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza , was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.-Early life:...
  
  
• Trini Decombe
• Paul Delano
  Paul Delano
  Captain Paul Delano , born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was a sea captain and a member of the prominent American Delano family. He moved to Chile as Captain of the Curiacio where he arrived in June 22, 1819 and became an important part of that country's First Chilean Navy Squadron...
  
  
• Patricia Demick
  Patricia Demick
  Patricia Demick is a female boxer who made history by becoming Chile's first world boxing champion ever, including male boxing....
  
  
• Juan Downey
  Juan Downey
  - Biography :Juan Downey was born in Santiago, Chile. His father David Downey V. was a distinguished architect in Chile and following in his father’s footsteps Juan Downey studied and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile...
  
  
• Luisa Durán
• Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards Valdés is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Encina
  Francisco Antonio Encina
  Francisco Antonio Encina Armanet was a political essayist and Chilean historian. He authored the History of Chile from Prehistory to 1891: with 20 volumes, it stands as the largest individual historical work of the 20th century in Chile....
  
  
• Miguel Enríquez Espinosa
• Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa
• Eugenia Errázuriz
  Eugenia Errázuriz
  Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz was a Chilean patron of modernism and a style leader of Paris from 1880 into the 20th century, who paved the way for the modernist minimalist aesthetic that would be taken up in fashion by Coco Chanel. Her circle of friends and protégés included Pablo Picasso,...
  
  
• Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
  Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
  Federico Marcos del Rosario Errázuriz Zañartu was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1871 and 1876. He was born in Santiago in 1825 and died there in 1877. Errázuriz was of Basque descent....
  
  
• Fernando Errázuriz
  Fernando Errázuriz
  Fernando de Errázuriz y Martínez de Aldunate , also known as Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, was a Chilean political figure. He served as provisional president of Chile in 1831. He was of Basque descent....
  
  
• Francisco Javier Errázuriz Talavera
• Alejandro Escalona
  Alejandro Escalona
  Alejandro Adrián Escalona Martínez or simply Alejandro Escalona born August 14, 1979, in Santiago, Chile is a Chilean right-wingback who plays for San Luis Quillota.He also holds EU nationality.-External links: at Futbol XXI...
  
  
• Pedro Espinoza Bravo
• Jéssica Eterovic
  Jéssica Eterovic
  Jéssica Miroslava Eterovic Pozas was Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1993.She is married to television producer Eduardo Dominguez.Jessica Miroslava is of Croat origin.-References:*...
  
  
• Agustín Eyzaguirre
• Elías Figueroa
  Elías Figueroa
  Elías Ricardo Figueroa Brander is a former football player from Chile. He is considered the best Chilean footballer of all time, as well as one of the greatest defenders ever to play the game....
  
  
• Emiliano Figueroa
  Emiliano Figueroa
  Emiliano Figueroa Larraín was President of Chile from December 23, 1925 until his resignation on May 10, 1927. He also served as Acting president for a few months on 1910.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fernando Flores
  Fernando Flores
  Carlos Fernando Flores Labra is a Chilean engineer, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of president Salvador Allende and was senator for the Arica and Parinacota and Tarapacá regions between 2001 and 2009...
  
  
• Don Francisco (television host)
  Don Francisco (television host)
  Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld , better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación...
  
  
• Cristián de la Fuente
  Cristián de la Fuente
  Cristián de la Fuente Sabarots is a Chilean-American actor.-Early life:De la Fuente was born in Santiago, Chile, as the only child of chemist Hugo de la Fuente and Adriana Sabarots, a homemaker of French descent...
  
  
• Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet de Goyeneche is a popular Chilean writer, journalist, film critic and film director who rose to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative. Although he was born in Santiago, he spent his first 13 years of life in Encino, California...
  
  
• Lucho Gatica
  Lucho Gatica
  Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, better known as Lucho Gatica, is a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host. It is estimated that Gatica has released more than 90 recordings. He has toured a vast portion of the world, having made concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti is a well known Chilean singer-songwriter in the tradition of Nueva Canción and Nueva Trova. His best known song is "Los Momentos" , originally recorded in 1970 by Gatti when he was a member of the band Los Blops....
  
  
• Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister Bohner , is a former Chilean tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. He is the brother of Heinz and Fritz Gildemeister, who are also tennis players...
  
  
• Arturo Godoy
  Arturo Godoy
  -Biography:He was born in Iquique, Chile, in 1910.He was South American Heavyweight Champion and had an extensive and successful career in Argentina, Cuba, Spain, and the United States roughly between 1931 and 1954.In New York he beat Tony Galento....
  
  
• Dagoberto Godoy
  Dagoberto Godoy
  Dagoberto Godoy Fuentealba was a Chilean pilot and the first person to fly over the Andes....
  
  
• Eric Goles
  Eric Goles
  Eric Antonio Goles Chacc is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France...
  
  
• Gabriel González Videla
  Gabriel González Videla
  Gabriel González Videla was a Chilean politician. He was a deputy and senator in the Chilean Congress and was President of Chile from 1946 to 1952...
  
  
• Fernando González
  Fernando González
  ----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
  
  
• Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove Vallejo was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juan Guzmán Tapia
  Juan Guzmán Tapia
  Juan Salvador Guzmán Tapia is a retired Chilean judge who gained international recognition for being the first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, after Pinochet's return to Chile following more than a year of house arrest in London, in...
  
  
• Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet
  Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet
  María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez , also known as Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, is the widow of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet...
  
  
• Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...
  
  
• Brenda Hughes
• Vicente Huidobro
  Vicente Huidobro
  Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo , which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.Huidobro was born into a wealthy...
  
  
• Aucán Huilcamán
  Aucán Huilcamán
  Aucán Huilcamán Paillama , leader of the indigenous Mapuche organization Consejo de Todas las Tierras . He intended to run for president in 2005 election, but his candidacy was not accepted as he was not able to collect enough official votes validated by public notaries.-References:...
  
  
• Alberto Hurtado
  Alberto Hurtado
  Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga , popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado , was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker and writer of Basque origin, founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation...
  
  
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as dictator between 1927 and 1931 and as constitutional President from 1952 to 1958.- The coups of 1924 and 1925 :...
  
  
• José Miguel Insulza
  José Miguel Insulza
  José Miguel Insulza Salinas is a Chilean politician and statesman. He is currently the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. He is nicknamed El Panzer, for his tank-like drive and reputation due to his ability to take political heat with little apparent damage...
  
  
• Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
  
  
• Carlos Kaiser
  Carlos Kaiser
  Carlos Kaiser is a Chilean campaigner on issues affecting people with disabilities. He has an amputated upper and lower limbs...
  
  
• Carlos Keller
  Carlos Keller
  Carlos Keller Rueff was a far-right Chilean writer, historian, and political figure.-Early years:Keller was born in Concepción, Chile, into a family of German origin and completed his education at universities in Germany...
  
  
• Miguel Krasnoff
• Lady P
• Pedro Lagos
  Pedro Lagos
  Pedro Lagos Marchant was a Chilean infantry commander. He is best remembered for commanding the assault and capture of the city of Arica during the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...
  
  
• Alberto Larraguibel
  Alberto Larraguibel
  Colonel Alberto Larraguibel Morales was a Chilean Army officer of Basque descent born in Angol, Chile. He remains the record holder for Puissance on Horseback, one of the longest-running unbroken sport records in history -- years as of .Then-Captain Larraguibel broke the record for the...
  
  
• Francisco de la Lastra
  Francisco de la Lastra
  General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile .-Biography:...
  
  
• Juan José Latorre
  Juan José Latorre
  Juan José Latorre Benavente Chilean Vice Admiral, one of the principal actors of the War of the Pacific, and hero of the Battle of Angamos.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lautaro (toqui)
• Joaquín Lavín
  Joaquín Lavín
  Joaquín José Lavín Infante is a Chilean politician and economist. He is a member of the Independent Democrat Union party and former mayor of Santiago and Las Condes municipalities of capital Santiago...
  
  
• Gustavo Leigh
  Gustavo Leigh
  Air General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán was a Chilean general, who represented the Air Force in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and, for a time, in the ruling junta that followed. Leigh was forced out of the military government in 1978.-Biography:Leigh was born in Santiago, son of Hernán Leigh Bañados and...
  
  
• Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton Guzmán was a Chilean Christian Democrat who was targeted by Operation Condor.In 1937, President Arturo Alessandri Palma appointed him as Employment minister....
  
  
• Orlando Letelier
  Orlando Letelier
  Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Socialist President Salvador Allende...
  
  
• Gonzalo Lira
  Gonzalo Lira
  Gonzalo Lira is an American novelist, filmmaker and economic blogger born in Burbank, CaliforniaHe is the son of Gonzalo Lira Valdés and María Isabel López Hess; he is a descendant of José Miguel Carrera,. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, New York City, and Miami, as well as Guayaquil,...
  
  
• Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Roberto "Sapo" Livingstone Pohlhammer , affectionally called Sapito Livingstone, is a former Chilean goalkeeper, considered the first great footballer in the country's history, who later became a well regarded journalist. He was called El Sapo for his typical posture in the goal mouth...
  
  
• Themo Lobos
  Themo Lobos
  Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre , better known as Themo Lobos, is a Chilean comic strip, comic book writer and artist. He is the creator of characters such as Máximo Chambónez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, but his most famous work is Mampato, a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo...
  
  
• Carlos Lorca
  Carlos Lorca
  Carlos Enrique Lorca Tobar , was a Chilean physician, president of the Students' Federation and then deputy for Valdivia province and leader of the Socialist Party of Chile....
  
  
• Margot Loyola
  Margot Loyola
  Margot Loyola Palacios is a musician, folk singer and researcher of the folklore of Chile and Latin America in general.Loyola has been active as a musician and musical ethnographer/anthropologist for many decades...
  
  
• Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas Manríquez is a former Chilean boxer. He won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He also claimed the bronze at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States. He was born in Villarrica, Chile.-References:...
  
  
• Andrónico Luksic
  Andrónico Luksic
  Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa was a Chilean businessman of Croatian origin and founder of the Luksic Group...
  
  
• Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a Rear Admiral in the Chilean navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of the Pacific...
  
  
• Juan Mackenna
  Juan Mackenna
  Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army....
  
  
• Juan Maino
  Juan Maino
  Juan Bosco Maino Canales was a photographer, political activist, and opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile. He was a leader in MAPU...
  
  
• Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva was an Argentinian marrano physician, who learned about his Jewishness through his father Diego Nuñez da Silva, who was a Jewish physician. Francisco studied the scriptures while he was a medical student. After a few years in Chile he decided to assume fully his...
  
  
• Javier Margas
• Beatriz Marinello
  Beatriz Marinello
  Beatriz Marinello is a Woman International Master chess player from the United States. She was president of the United States Chess Federation from 2003 to 2005 and a member of the executive board from 2003 to 2007.-Life:...
  
  
• Juan Martinez de Rozas
  Juan Martinez de Rozas
  Juan Martínez de Rozas Correa was the earliest leader in the Chilean struggle for independence.He was born at Mendoza in 1759, the son of Juan Martínez de Soto Rozas and María Prudencia Correa Villegas. In his early life he was a professor of law, theology and philosophy at Santiago...
  
  
• Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried , nicknamed Vampiro , is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist...
  
  
• Roberto Matta
  Roberto Matta
  Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren , better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art....
  
  
• Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei Aubel is a retired Chilean Air Force General that was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after Gustavo Leigh was dismissed in 1978. Before he became a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government...
  
  
• Manfred Max-Neef
  Manfred Max-Neef
  Artur Manfred Max Neef is a Chilean economist and environmentalist mainly known for his human development model based on Fundamental human needs. He is of German descent...
  
  
• Jorge Medina Estévez
  Jorge Medina Estévez
  Jorge Arturo Agustín Medina Estévez is a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Cardinal Protodeacon until February 23, 2007, and is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.-Early life and ordination:Medina was born in Santiago in...
  
  
• José Toribio Medina
  José Toribio Medina
  José Toribio Medina Zavala was a Chilean bibliographer, prolific writer, and historian. He was of Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• César Mendoza
  César Mendoza
  General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the Carabineros de Chile....
  
  
• José Toribio Merino
  José Toribio Merino
  José Toribio Merino Castro was one of the principal coup leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, along with General Augusto Pinochet of the Army, General Gustavo Leigh of the Air Force, and General Mendoza of the "Carabineros"...
  
  
• Michimalonco
  Michimalonco
  Michima Lonco was an indigenous chief said to be a great warrior, born in the Aconcagua Valley and educated in Cusco by the Inca Empire. He presented himself to the Spaniards, naked and covered by a black pigmentation...
  
  
• Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Petar Mirošević Albornoz is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for the Chilean Primera División side Universidad Católica as an Attacking midfielder.-Club carrer:...
  
  
• Paulina Mladinic
  Paulina Mladinic
  Paulina Mladinic Zorzano was the Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1997. Paulina is of Croatian and Basque descent.-References:*...
  
  
• Juan Ignacio Molina
  Juan Ignacio Molina
  Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer...
  
  
• Juan Esteban Montero
  Juan Esteban Montero
  Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as president of Chile between 1931 and 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Christina Montt
  Christina Montt
  Cristina Montt , was a Chilean film star of silent and early sound films.-Early life:She was born in Chile in 1895 into the well-known, political Montt family. Her granduncle, Manuel Montt, was twice president of Chile...
  
  
• Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt Álvarez was vice-admiral of the Chilean Navy and president of Chile from 1891 to 1896.-Early life:...
  
  
• Manuel Montt
  Manuel Montt
  Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar. He was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pedro Montt
  Pedro Montt
  Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910...
  
  
• Iván Morovic
  Iván Morovic
  Iván Eduardo Morović Fernández is a Chilean chess player and an International Grandmaster of Croatian origin. He often has been the best Latin American chess player....
  
  
• Heraldo Muñoz
  Heraldo Muñoz
  Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela is a Chilean politician and diplomat, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, and currently Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme.Muñoz was...
  
  
• Mario Mutis
  Mario Mutis
  Mario Mutis is the bass player in the Chilean progressive rock-folk band Los Jaivas.- References :...
  
  
• Claudio Naranjo
  Claudio Naranjo
  Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions. He is one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls , and a developer of the Enneagram of Personality and founder of the Seekers After Truth Institute...
  
  
• Francisco Nef
  Francisco Nef
  Vice Admiral Francisco Nef Jara was a Chilean naval officer and member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Manuel Negrete (human rights victim)
  Manuel Negrete (human rights victim)
  Manuel Estanislao Negrete Hernández , was a Chilean man who was allegedly killed by policemen serving Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet....
  
  
• Hernán Neira
  Hernán Neira
  Hernán Neiro is a professor and writer born in Lima. He studied philosophy in Lima Peru. He has published the stories A golpes de hacha y fuego, the novels El sueño inconcluso, El naufragio de la luz, and the essays El espejo de olvido and La ciudad y las palabras. He is also the author of...
  
  
• Humberto Nilo
  Humberto Nilo
  Humberto Nilo Saavedra was the director of the University of Chile school of arts. He set up a mail art exhibit at a museum in Santiago. The exhibit criticized the lack of liberty in Chile. He was dismissed a few months later.-References:...
  
  
• Osvaldo Nunez
  Osvaldo Nunez
  Osvaldo Nunez was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. His career has been in law, arbitration and labour....
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  
• Guillermo "Willy" Oddó
• Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Andrés Olarra Guerrero is a footballer. He plays as a defender, currently in Unión Española.-Career:Olarra began his career in Audax Italiano...
  
  
• Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría was a member of Chile’s Partido Socialista.Olea lived in Santiago, Chile. He was detained by “security agents” on 11 September 1974, and became one of the "detenidos desaparecidos". Manuel Contreras was convicted in 2002 for his abduction.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pedro Opazo
  Pedro Opazo
  Pedro Opazo Letelier was a Chilean politician and provisional vice president of Chile in 1931.He was born in Talca, the son of Ursicino Opazo and Margarita Letelier. He completed his studies in his native city, and then attended the Universidad de Chile, where he became a physician...
  
  
• Sergio Ortega
  Sergio Ortega
  Sergio Ortega was a Chilean composer and pianist.- Biography :Ortega was born in Antofagasta, Chile. He studied composition with Roberto Falabella and with Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt in the National Conservatory at the Universidad de Chile...
  
  
• José Tomás Ovalle
  José Tomás Ovalle
  José Tomás Ovalle y Bezanilla was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as provisional president of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel Urrutia was president of Chile in 1932.He studied law at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and in 1897 received his law degree. During the Chilean Civil War in 1891, Oyanedel fought for the Congressional army.In 1927, he was appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Chile ,...
  
  
• Leonor Oyarzún
  Leonor Oyarzún
  Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic was First Lady of Chile and is the wife of former President Patricio Aylwin.She was born in 1922, daughter of Manuel Oyarzún Lorca and Ana Ivanovic Roccatagliata...
  
  
• Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada Lillo is a Chilean musician, composer, engineer and anthropologist. Parada joined Quilapayún in 1968, which made the group into a sextet - the formation which recorded the “Cantata Santa María de Iquique. Upon joining the group he became the major solo voice of the ensemble Rodolfo...
  
  
• Ángel Parra
  Ángel Parra
  Ángel Cereceda Parra is a Chilean singer and songwriter, son of Violeta Parra, notable Chilean folklorist and brother of Isabel Parra. He travels abroad helping to maintain the Nueva Canción tradition in Chilean expatriate communities in Europe, North America, and Australia. His son -also named...
  
  
• Claudio Parra
• Colombina Parra
  Colombina Parra
  Colombina Parra is a Chilean musician and singer. She was part of the Chilean grunge/alternative rock scene in the 1990s. Her band, Ex, were well known in Latin America when their first album came out with singles like "Sacar la Basura", "La Corbata de mi Tío" and "Vendo Diario" in 1996.Parra is...
  
  
• Eduardo Parra
  Eduardo Parra
  Eduardo Parra is a member of the Chilean rock fusion band Los Jaivas. He is the oldest of the Parra brothers . Eduardo plays the keyboards and some percussion instruments.-Poetry:He wrote several poetry books, including:*La Puerta Giratoria.Ediciones Rivera Scott...
  
  
• Gabriel Parra
  Gabriel Parra
  Gabriel Parra was the former drummer of Chilean folk group "Los Jaivas". He died in a crash in Peru in 1988. His daughter Juanita Parra replaced him as drummer in Los Jaivas after his death....
  
  
• Javiera Parra
  Javiera Parra
  Javiera Cereceda Orrego , better known as Javiera Parra, is a Chilean musician and singer born in Santiago. She is the lead singer of rock band Javiera y Los Imposibles. A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, known for its many musicians, she is the granddaughter of famous Chilean...
  
  
• Nicanor Parra
  Nicanor Parra
  Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile, who has been considered to be a popular poet in Chile with enormous influence and popularity in Latin America, and also considered one of the most important poets of the Spanish language literature...
  
  
• Santiago Pavlović
• Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Washington Peña Hen was a Chilean composer and an academic at the University of Chile. He was murdered by the Caravan of Death.-Works:...
  
  
• Candelaria Perez
  Candelaria Perez
  Candelaria Pérez was a sergeant in the Chilean Army. She was part of the expeditionary forces sent to Peru to fight against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. She was considered the hero of the Battle of Yungay when she led an assault against the entrenched Confederate troops....
  
  
• José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1861 and 1871....
  
  
• Carlos Pezoa Véliz
  Carlos Pezoa Véliz
  Carlos Pezoa Véliz was a poet, educator and journalist from Chile. His literary work remained largely unpublished until his death at the young age of 29...
  
  
• Rodolfo Amando Philippi
  Rodolfo Amando Philippi
  Rodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
  
  
• José Piñera
  José Piñera
  José Piñera is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems" as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper"...
  
  
• Sebastián Piñera
  Sebastián Piñera
  Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique is a Chilean businessman and politician. He was elected President of Chile in January 2010, taking office in March 2010.- Education :...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Aníbal Pinto
  Aníbal Pinto
  Aníbal Pinto Garmendia was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1876 and 1881.-Early life:...
  
  
• Carlos Pinto
  Carlos Pinto
  Carlos Pinto is a popular Chilean journalist and television presenter. In 1984, he and Santiago Pavlovic began an investigative program called Informe Especial which airs in TVN. He is the father of the football player Sebastián Pinto...
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto y Díaz de la Puente was a Chilean political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1827 and 1829.-Early life:He was born in Santiago, the son of Joaquín Pinto and Mercedes Díaz de la Puente...
  
  
• Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza Reyes was an athlete from Chile, who won the country's first ever Olympic medal by finishing second at the Men's Marathon in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He clocked 2 hours, 33 minutes and 23 seconds.-References:*...
  
  
• Diego Portales
  Diego Portales
  Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the...
  
  
• Carlos Prats
  Carlos Prats
  General Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army...
  
  
• José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto Vial was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1831 and 1841. José Joaquín Prieto was of Spanish and Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Carmen Gloria Quintana
  Carmen Gloria Quintana
  Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia is a Chilean woman who suffered severe, almost fatal burns in an incident where she and other youngsters were detained by an army patrol during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet...
  
  
• Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Enzo Reinoso Valdenegro is a Chilean football coach. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably as a member of the Club América Mexican team. He is one of the best foreigner who played in Mexico, and the best that ever played at Club América.-Player:He began his career in his home...
  
  
• Pedro Reyes
  Pedro Reyes
  See also, Pedro Reyes Pedro Antonio Reyes González is a former Chilean football defender....
  
  
• Germán Riesco
  Germán Riesco
  Germán Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juan Antonio Ríos
  Juan Antonio Ríos
  Juan Antonio Ríos Morales was a Chilean political figure, and President of Chile from 1942 to 1946, during the height of World War II. He died in office.-Early life:...
  
  
• Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed El Chino and El zurdo de Vitacura , he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No...
  
  
• Ted Robledo
  Ted Robledo
  Eduardo Oliver "Ted" Robledo was a Chilean professional football player. He played as a left-sided defender, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United....
  
  
• Laura Rodríguez
  Laura Rodríguez
  Laura Fiora Rodríguez Riccomini was a Chilean political activist from the Humanist Party. In 1989 she became the world's first Humanist to win a seat in parliament, after claiming victory as part of the Concertación coalition....
  
  
• Manuel Rodríguez
• Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
  Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
  Rodrigo Andrés Rojas De Negri was a young photographer who was burned alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.-Background:...
  
  
• Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas Trujillo is a Chilean footballer. He recently played for Colo-Colo in the Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División....
  
  
• Raoul Ruiz
  Raoul Ruiz
  Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was a Chilean filmmaker.Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival...
  
  
• Marcelo Salas
  Marcelo Salas
  José Marcelo Salas Melinao , better known as El Matador, Shileno or simply Marcelo Salas, is a former football player from Chile. He, along with world cup veterans, 3 time Best Player of America Elías Figueroa and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan forward Iván Zamorano, has been one of Chile's...
  
  
• Juan Luis Sanfuentes
  Juan Luis Sanfuentes
  Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui was President of Chile between 1915 and 1920. He was son of writer and politician Salvador Sanfuentes Torres and Matilde Andonaegui....
  
  
• Domingo Santa María
  Domingo Santa María
  Domingo Santa María González was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1881 and 1886.-Early life:...
  
  
• Federico Santa María
  Federico Santa María
  Federico Santa María Carrera was a Chilean businessman and philanthropist. He was of Basque descent and member of the notable Carrera family....
  
  
• José Santos
  José Santos
  Jose Abon Santos is a retired Chilean thoroughbred jockey who has been honored by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in the United States.-Career:...
  
  
• Horatio Sanz
  Horatio Sanz
  Horatio Sanz is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006. Sanz most recently starred alongside his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell in the Comedy Central series Big Lake.-Early life:Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in...
  
  
• René Schneider
  René Schneider
  General René Schneider Chereau was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt. His murder virtually assured Salvador Allende's eventual overthrow and death in a coup three years later...
  
  
• Luis Sepúlveda
  Luis Sepúlveda
  Luis Sepúlveda is a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist.- Life :Luis Sepùlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province...
  
  
• Miguel Serrano
  Miguel Serrano
  Miguel Serrano was a Chilean diplomat, explorer and author of poetry, books on spiritual questing and Esoteric Nazism...
  
  
• Raúl Silva Henríquez
• Alejandro Silva
  Alejandro Silva
  For the Chilean long-distance runner with the same name see Alejandro Silva Alejandro Silva is a Chilean instrumental heavy metal guitarist, best known as the founder and lead guitarist of his band, Alejandro Silva Power Cuarteto....
  
  
• Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva Endeiza was a Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer. Victor Silva was of Basque descent by mother's side....
  
  
• Robert Winthrop Simpson
  Robert Winthrop Simpson
  Robert Winthrop Simpson was a Rear-Admiral of the Chilean navy and a hero of the War of the Confederation.-Early life:...
  
  
• Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia....
  
  
• Fernando Solis
  Fernando Solis
  Fernando Solis Lara is a professional radio and TV host, born in Valdivia, Chile.Internationally recognized for his work during more than 20 years in radio and television, Fernando is the official voice of Canal 7 in Chile, TVN. He is also the voice of Sr. Manguera in the popular children's program...
  
  
• Juan Somavía
  Juan Somavía
  Juan Somavía is the current Director-General of the International Labour Organization .He was elected to serve as the ninth Director-General of the ILO by the Governing Body on 23 March 1998.-Term as Director-General:...
  
  
• Mario Benavides Soto
  Mario Benavides Soto
  Mario Soto Benavides was a Chilean football defender, who played for his native country in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. In total for his country he played 48 matches scoring 1 goal between 1975 and 1985...
  
  
• Carlos Sotomayor
  Carlos Sotomayor
  Carlos Sotomayor was a Chilean painter, born in La Serena, Chile. He is considered to be one of the principal exponents of the cubism from South America.-Early years:...
  
  
• Robert Souper
  Robert Souper
  Colonel Robert Souper Howard was an English soldier who served in the Chilean Army during most of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:Born in Harwich, England, son of Colonel William Souper and Emily Howard...
  
  
• Roberto Souper
  Roberto Souper
  Lt. Colonel Roberto Federico Souper Onfray was a Chilean military officer who launched an unsuccessful coup d'état against the regime of Salvador Allende, surrounding the presidential palace with a tank regiment....
  
  
• Rodolfo Stange
  Rodolfo Stange
  General Rodolfo Stange Oelckers is a Chilean politician and former senator. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the police force . He was elected Senator in 1998, finishing his term in 2005.Stange was born in Puerto Montt, in the south of Chile...
  
  
• Inés de Suárez
• Juan Subercaseaux
  Juan Subercaseaux
  Monsignor Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz was a Chilean Roman Catholic archbishop. Juan Subercaseaux was of French and Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jonnathan Tafra
  Jonnathan Tafra
  Johnnathan Tafra Quitral is a Chilean sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-1 1000 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:*...
  
  
• Nelson Tapia
• Carolina Tohá
  Carolina Tohá
  Carolina Montserrat Tohá Morales is a Chilean politician from the Party for Democracy . She is the daughter of the late Socialist politician, Vice President, and minister of Salvador Allende, José Tohá....
  
  
• José Tohá
  José Tohá
  José Tohá González was a Chilean journalist, lawyer, political figure, and Socialist politician.He was born in Chillán, the son of Spanish immigrant José Tohá Soldavilla and of Brunilda González Monteagudo. After completing his secondary studies in his natal city, he studied law at the ...
  
  
• Radomiro Tomic
  Radomiro Tomic
  Radomiro Tomic Romero was a Chilean politician of Croatian origin. He was one of the most prominent leaders of that country's Christian Democrat Party....
  
  
• Tonka Tomicic
  Tonka Tomicic
  Tonka Tomicic Petric is a Chilean model and television presenter of Croat origin.-Career:She first came to public attention as the Chilean representative to the 1995 Miss World pageant. Soon after she was invited to the program Pase lo que Pase of TVN as a fashion commentator...
  
  
• Rolando Toro Araneda
• Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Field Marshal Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista , frequently misnamed Mateo de Toro y Zambrano in many Chilean history publications, was Viscount of La Descubierta and later Count of La Conquista...
  
  
• Carlos Torres
• Orelie-Antoine I of Araucania and Patagonia
  Orelie-Antoine I of Araucania and Patagonia
  Orélie-Antoine de Tounens was a French lawyer, and adventurer, who assumed the title of King of the Araucanía and Patagonia. It is disputed whether Tounens was a self-proclaimed king or was elected by a group of loncos .-Early life:Orélie-Antoine de Tounens was born May 12, 1825 in Chourgnac,...
  
  
• Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia Blondel, also known as Jorge Urrutia Blondel, , was a Chilean composer, educator and writer, born in 1905. He has composed ballet music, symphonic poems, and works for piano and for voice...
  
  
• Matilde Urrutia
  Matilde Urrutia
  Matilde Urrutia was the third wife of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, from 1966 until his death in 1973. They met in Santiago in 1946. Urrutia was the inspiration behind Neruda's work 100 Love Sonnets which includes a beautiful dedication to her...
  
  
• Jorge Valdivia
  Jorge Valdivia
  Jorge Luis Valdivia Toro is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for the Brazilian Série A club Palmeiras and the Chilean national team....
  
  
• Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command...
  
  
• Sergio Valech
  Sergio Valech
  Sergio Valech Aldunate was the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, Chile. He was the head of the eight-member National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture panel in Chile, which investigated instances of torture that occurred...
  
  
• Camilo Valenzuela
  Camilo Valenzuela
  Camilo Valenzuela was a Chilean General and chief of the garrison in Santiago de Chile. In 1970 he led a group that with intent to stop the newly elected Salvador Allende from being inaugurated as president, tried to kidnap constitutionalist Army Commander-in-Chief René Schneider...
  
  
• Francisco Varela
  Francisco Varela
  Francisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
  
  
• Leonor Varela
  Leonor Varela
  Leonor Varela Palma is a Chilean actress, and model. She played the character Cleopatra in the 1999 film Cleopatra...
  
  
• Martín Vargas
  Martín Vargas
  Martín Vargas Fuentes is a former boxer from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. He attempted to obtain Chile's first boxing world title four times...
  
  
• Valentina Vargas
  Valentina Vargas
  Valentina Vargas is a Chilean-born actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised.-Biography:...
  
  
• José María Vélaz
  José María Vélaz
  José María Vélaz was a Jesuit priest from Chile who founded Fe y Alegria in 1949. Fe y Alegria is a movement for popular integrated education, with a special mission to provide quality education for the poor. Following a proud tradition of Jesuit education, Vélaz believed that the best way to...
  
  
• Roberto Viaux
  Roberto Viaux
  Roberto Urbano Viaux Marambio was a Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempts in Chile in 1969 and 1970...
  
  
• Francisco Ramón Vicuña
  Francisco Ramón Vicuña
  Francisco Ramón de Vicuña Larraín was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as acting President of Chile in 1829. Francisco Vicuña was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Benjamín Vicuña MacKenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• José Antonio Vidaurre
  Jose Antonio Vidaurre
  Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre Garretón was a Chilean military officer who led a failed insurrection in 1837 that culminated in the assassination of minister Diego Portales....
  
  
• Benedicto Villablanca
  Benedicto Villablanca
  Benedicto Villablanca is a former professional boxer who came close to becoming Chile's first professional boxing world champion....
  
  
• Ramón Vinay
  Ramón Vinay
  Ramón Vinay was a famous Chilean operatic tenor with a powerful, dramatic voice. He is probably best remembered for his appearances in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera Otello....
  
  
• Klaus von Storch
  Klaus von Storch
  Klaus Bernhard von Storch Krüger is a Chilean aerospace engineer and astronaut trainee.Von Storch was born in Osorno, in southern Chile. In 1992, he was selected by the Chilean Space Agency for the preparation for the flight on the Space Shuttle...
  
  
• Gert Weil
  Gert Weil
  Gert Michael Weil is a retired Chilean shot putter of German ancestry, who dominated the sport on the South American scene during the 1980s and early 1990s. His best performance at a global event was a sixth place at the 1988 Olympic Games...
  
  
• Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo
  Juan Williams Rebolledo was a Chilean rear admiral who was the organizer and commander-in-chief of the Chilean navy at the beginning of the War of the Pacific.-Early life:...
  
  
• Iván Zamorano
  Iván Zamorano
  Iván Luis Zamorano Zamora is a retired Chilean football striker. Along with former world-class forward Marcelo Salas and former world player of the year Elias Figueroa he is regarded as one of Chile's most recognized footballers.He was a member of the Chilean national team and played in the 1998...
  
  
• Manuel Ortiz de Zárate
  Manuel Ortiz de Zárate
  Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto was a Chilean painter.Born Manuel Revuelta Ortiz de Zárate Pinto in Como, Italy, he was the son of Chilean composer Eleodoro Ortiz de Zárate and of María Cristina Pinto Errázuriz...
  
  

Chilean people by occupation

• List of Chileans

Chilean biologists

• Pedro E. Maldonado
• Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
  Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
  Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. , he is an Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with mammalian promoters...
  
  
• Humberto Maturana
  Humberto Maturana
  Humberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. He is considered a member of the second wave of cybernetics, known for developing a theory of autopoiesis about the nature of reflexive feedback control in living systems.- Biography :After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de...
  
  
• Francisco Varela
  Francisco Varela
  Francisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
  
  

Chilean boxers

• Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio "Tripa" Barrientos was a Chilean boxer, who won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. A year earlier he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. His nickname was Tripa...
  
  
• Patricia Demick
  Patricia Demick
  Patricia Demick is a female boxer who made history by becoming Chile's first world boxing champion ever, including male boxing....
  
  
• Arturo Godoy
  Arturo Godoy
  -Biography:He was born in Iquique, Chile, in 1910.He was South American Heavyweight Champion and had an extensive and successful career in Argentina, Cuba, Spain, and the United States roughly between 1931 and 1954.In New York he beat Tony Galento....
  
  
• Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas Manríquez is a former Chilean boxer. He won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He also claimed the bronze at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States. He was born in Villarrica, Chile.-References:...
  
  
• Martín Vargas
  Martín Vargas
  Martín Vargas Fuentes is a former boxer from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. He attempted to obtain Chile's first boxing world title four times...
  
  
• Benedicto Villablanca
  Benedicto Villablanca
  Benedicto Villablanca is a former professional boxer who came close to becoming Chile's first professional boxing world champion....
  
  

Chilean cardinals

• Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa
• Jorge Medina Estévez
  Jorge Medina Estévez
  Jorge Arturo Agustín Medina Estévez is a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Cardinal Protodeacon until February 23, 2007, and is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.-Early life and ordination:Medina was born in Santiago in...
  
  
• Raúl Silva Henríquez

Chilean footballers

• Clarence Acuña
  Clarence Acuña
  Clárence Williams Acuña Donoso is a Chilean former professional football player. He played as a midfielder.- Chilean League :...
  
  
• Cristián Andrés Álvarez Valenzuela
• Pedro Araya (footballer)
  Pedro Araya (footballer)
  Pedro Damián Araya Toro is a retired football player from Chile.-Career:Toro represented the Chilean national team at the 1966 World Cup, and played all three matches for the squad...
  
  
• Mauricio Aros
  Mauricio Aros
  Mauricio Fernando Aros Bahamóndez is a Chilean football player, who currently plays midfielder for Unión Temuco.-Career:He began his career in the youth squads of Deportes Concepción and debuted as a professional in 1995...
  
  
• Rodrigo Barrera
• Eduardo Bonvallet
  Eduardo Bonvallet
  Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy is a retired Chilean footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and later developed a TV and radio sports commentator career, best known for his strong and rather raw commentaries on Chilean footballers, coaches and football's power structures...
  
  
• Claudio Bravo (footballer)
• Carlos Campos
• Christian Castañeda
  Christian Castañeda
  Cristián Alberto Castañeda Vargas is a retired Chilean football player. He played for a few clubs, including Universidad de Chile and Everton Viña del Mar, his last club was Deportes Arica....
  
  
• Nicolás Córdova
  Nicolás Córdova
  Nicolas Andrés Córdova San Cristóbal is a Chilean footballer. A midfielder, who currently plays with Brescia.-Career:...
  
  
• Fernando Cornejo
• Alejandro Escalona
  Alejandro Escalona
  Alejandro Adrián Escalona Martínez or simply Alejandro Escalona born August 14, 1979, in Santiago, Chile is a Chilean right-wingback who plays for San Luis Quillota.He also holds EU nationality.-External links: at Futbol XXI...
  
  
• Fabián Estay
• Luis Eyzaguirre
  Luis Eyzaguirre
  Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva , also known as Fifo, is a former Chilean football player. He played right midfield in the Universidad de Chile football team known as the Ballet Azul, with which he won four national championships.He played in 1959 Copa América and in the FIFA World Cup he achieved...
  
  
• Elías Figueroa
  Elías Figueroa
  Elías Ricardo Figueroa Brander is a former football player from Chile. He is considered the best Chilean footballer of all time, as well as one of the greatest defenders ever to play the game....
  
  
• Ronald Fuentes
  Ronald Fuentes
  Ronald Hugo Fuentes Núñez was a Chilean football defender who was capped 50 times and scored 1 goal for the Chilean national team between 1991 and 2000, including four games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup....
  
  
• Patricio Galaz
  Patricio Galaz
  Patricio Sebastián Galaz Sepúlveda is a Chilean football forward. He last played for Ñublense in the Chilean Primera División....
  
  
• Marcos González
  Marcos González
  Marcos Andrés González Salazar is a Brazilian born Chilean professional football defender, who currently plays for Universidad de Chile....
  
  
• Mark González
  Mark González
  Mark Dennis González Hoffman , commonly known as Mark González, is a South African-born Chilean footballer whose preferred position is as a left winger. Renowned for his lightning pace, he is nicknamed "Speedy González". González currently plays for CSKA Moscow.-Early life:Mark González was born in...
  
  
• Sebastián González
  Sebastián González
  Sebastián Ignacio González Valdés , is a Chilean football striker who currently plays for The Strongest. His nickname is "Chamagol".- Career :...
  
  
• Antonio Luis Jiménez
  Antonio Luis Jiménez
  Luis Antonio Jiménez Garcés , more commonly known as Luis Jiménez, is a Chilean footballer. He plays for Al-Ahli Dubai as an attacking midfielder. He was also a member of the Chilean national team.-Early career:...
  
  
• Honorino Landa
  Honorino Landa
  Honorino Landa Vera was a Chilean football player.He was the youngest player of the Chilean team that won third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Once he received his high-school diploma in 1959, he went to play for the Unión Española team...
  
  
• Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Roberto "Sapo" Livingstone Pohlhammer , affectionally called Sapito Livingstone, is a former Chilean goalkeeper, considered the first great footballer in the country's history, who later became a well regarded journalist. He was called El Sapo for his typical posture in the goal mouth...
  
  
• Cláudio Andrés Maldonado
  Cláudio Andrés Maldonado
  Claudio Andrés del Tránsito Maldonado Rivera, or just Claudio Maldonado, is a Chilean football player...
  
  
• Javier Margas
• Nicolás Millán
  Nicolás Millán
  Nicolás Millán Carrasco is a Chilean footballer, currently playing for Deportes Naval. He is on loan from Colo-Colo. He is best known for being the youngest player to represent a Chilean team in professional football...
  
  
• Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Petar Mirošević Albornoz is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for the Chilean Primera División side Universidad Católica as an Attacking midfielder.-Club carrer:...
  
  
• David Moya
  David Moya
  David Moya is a soccer player who started his career with Colo-Colo in hisnative Chile, before moving to New Zealand to play for the Football Kingz in 1999....
  
  
• Luis Musrri
  Luis Musrri
  Luis Eduardo Musrri Saravia is a retired Chilean football player.He played mostly for Universidad de Chile as well as one season with Yunnan Hongta ....
  
  
• Reinaldo Navia
  Reinaldo Navia
  Reinaldo Marcelino Navia Amador is a Chilean footballer, who currently plays for the Chilean Primera División side Ñublense as Striker....
  
  
• Manuel Neira
• Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Andrés Olarra Guerrero is a footballer. He plays as a defender, currently in Unión Española.-Career:Olarra began his career in Audax Italiano...
  
  
• Sebastián Pardo
  Sebastián Pardo
  Sebastián Eduardo Pardo Campos, Pardo , is a former Chilean midfielder.Pardo began his career at Universidad de Chile, and joined Eredivisie's Feyenoord Rotterdam in 2002–03, debuting on September 10, 2002 against Excelsior Rotterdam , scoring his first Feyenoord in that match...
  
  
• Nelson Parraguez
• Mauricio Pinilla
  Mauricio Pinilla
  Mauricio Ricardo Pinilla Ferrera is a Chilean footballer who plays for U.S. Città di Palermo in Italy, as a centre forward....
  
  
• David Pizarro
  David Pizarro
  David Marcelo Pizarro Cortés is a Chilean football Midfielder. Pizarro. He also plays for the Chile national team, for which he won the Bronze medal at 2000 Summer Olympics, at Sydney...
  
  
• Marcelo Ramírez
  Marcelo Ramírez
  Marcelo Antonio Ramírez Gormaz is a retired Chilean football goalkeeper. He who was capped 37 times for the Chilean national team between 1993 and 2001, and was an unused substitute player for the 1998 FIFA World Cup...
  
  
• Miguel Ramírez
  Miguel Ramírez
  Miguel Ramírez Pérez , nicknamed "Cheíto", is a retired Chilean football defender. He was capped 62 times and scored 1 goal for the Chilean national team between 1991 and 2003, including three games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.-Career:...
  
  
• Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Enzo Reinoso Valdenegro is a Chilean football coach. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably as a member of the Club América Mexican team. He is one of the best foreigner who played in Mexico, and the best that ever played at Club América.-Player:He began his career in his home...
  
  
• Pedro Reyes
  Pedro Reyes
  See also, Pedro Reyes Pedro Antonio Reyes González is a former Chilean football defender....
  
  
• George Robledo
• Ted Robledo
  Ted Robledo
  Eduardo Oliver "Ted" Robledo was a Chilean professional football player. He played as a left-sided defender, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United....
  
  
• Francisco Rojas
  Francisco Rojas
  Francisco Ulises Rojas Rojas is a Chilean football defender.He was capped 31 times for the Chilean national team between 1995 and 2005, including three games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup....
  
  
• Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas Trujillo is a Chilean footballer. He recently played for Colo-Colo in the Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División....
  
  
• Roberto Rojas
  Roberto Rojas
  Roberto Antonio "Cóndor" Rojas Saavedra is a retired Chilean football goalkeeper. He is best known for a 1989 on-the-field incident in which he deliberately injured himself in an attempt to avoid a loss by the Chilean national team...
  
  
• Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental Igualt is a retired Chilean-Israeli professional football player.On the club level, Rozental has played for Universidad Católica , Colo-Colo , and Unión Española in his native Chile, Rangers in Scotland, where he became the first player from South America to play for the...
  
  
• Rodrigo Ruiz
  Rodrigo Ruiz
  Rodrigo Patricio Ruiz de Barbieri is a Mexican-Chilean footballer. He played for Unión Española, Toros Neza, Santos Laguna, CD Veracruz, and now plays for Estudiantes Tecos of the Primera División de México...
  
  
• Marcelo Salas
  Marcelo Salas
  José Marcelo Salas Melinao , better known as El Matador, Shileno or simply Marcelo Salas, is a former football player from Chile. He, along with world cup veterans, 3 time Best Player of America Elías Figueroa and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan forward Iván Zamorano, has been one of Chile's...
  
  
• Alexis Sánchez (footballer)
  Alexis Sánchez (footballer)
  Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez , is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for FC Barcelona and for the Chilean national team. He is well known for his excellent dribbling ability, great speed and his unusual strength for a fast winger....
  
  
• Leonel Sánchez
  Leonel Sánchez
  Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros is a former professional football player.Regarded as one of Chile's most important players, Sánchez holds the record for most games played for Chile with 84 games and 23 goals between 1955 and 1968...
  
  
• José Luis Sierra
  José Luis Sierra
  José Luis "Coto" Sierra Pando is a Chilean football coach and former player. Playing in the midfield, he retired in 2009, and one year later he became the coach of his long time team Unión Española...
  
  
• Mario Benavides Soto
  Mario Benavides Soto
  Mario Soto Benavides was a Chilean football defender, who played for his native country in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. In total for his country he played 48 matches scoring 1 goal between 1975 and 1985...
  
  
• Hector Tapia
  Hector Tapia
  Héctor Santiago Tapia Urdile or just "Tito Tapia" is a former football player from Chile.- Career :In 2004 and 2005 he played for Cruzeiro of Brazil...
  
  
• Nelson Tapia
• Carlos Tejas
  Carlos Tejas
  Carlos Tejas Pastén is a Chilean footballer, also called "el cuchillo", currently plays for Club Deportivo O'Higgins. His position is Goalkeeper. He currently plays for Coquimbo Unido. Tejas was in Chile's squad for the 1997 Copa América and 1998 FIFA World Cup.-References:...
  
  
• Rodrigo Tello
  Rodrigo Tello
  Rodrigo Álvaro Tello Valenzuela is a Chilean footballer who plays with Eskişehirspor in Turkey.Left-footed, he usually operates as a left midfielder, but can also appear in the middle, and as an offensive left back...
  
  
• Jorge Valdivia
  Jorge Valdivia
  Jorge Luis Valdivia Toro is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for the Brazilian Série A club Palmeiras and the Chilean national team....
  
  
• Rodrigo Valenzuela
  Rodrigo Valenzuela
  Rodrigo Ignacio Valenzuela Avilés is a Chilean football player.He is a midfielder who plays for Universidad Católica. He has spent his entire career in club teams in either Chile or Mexico...
  
  
• Marcelo Vega
  Marcelo Vega
  Francisco Marcelo Vega Cepeda is a retired Chilean football midfielder.He was capped 30 times and scored 1 goal for the Chilean national team between 1991 and 1998...
  
  
• Moisés Villarroel
  Moisés Villarroel
  Moisés Fermín Villarroel Ayala is a Chilean football midfielder. He played for Colo-Colo, where he was part of the 2006 apertura, 2006 clausura, 2007 apertura, 2007 clausura, 2008 clausura championship teams....
  
  
• Iván Zamorano
  Iván Zamorano
  Iván Luis Zamorano Zamora is a retired Chilean football striker. Along with former world-class forward Marcelo Salas and former world player of the year Elias Figueroa he is regarded as one of Chile's most recognized footballers.He was a member of the Chilean national team and played in the 1998...
  
  

Chilean heads of state

• Luis Altamirano
  Luis Altamirano
  Division General Luis Altamirano Talavera was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Bartolomé Blanche
  Bartolomé Blanche
  General Bartolomé Guillermo Blanche Espejo was a Chilean military officer and provisional president of Chile in 1932....
  
  
• Julio Canessa
  Julio Canessa
  Lieutenant General Julio Canessa Roberts is a Chilean military and political figure. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the Army. He was also a designated Senator between 1998 and 2006....
  
  
• José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja...
  
  
• Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza , was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.-Early life:...
  
  
• Agustín Eyzaguirre
• Ramón Freire
• Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove Vallejo was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as dictator between 1927 and 1931 and as constitutional President from 1952 to 1958.- The coups of 1924 and 1925 :...
  
  
• Francisco de la Lastra
  Francisco de la Lastra
  General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile .-Biography:...
  
  
• Gustavo Leigh
  Gustavo Leigh
  Air General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán was a Chilean general, who represented the Air Force in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and, for a time, in the ruling junta that followed. Leigh was forced out of the military government in 1978.-Biography:Leigh was born in Santiago, son of Hernán Leigh Bañados and...
  
  
• Juan Martinez de Rozas
  Juan Martinez de Rozas
  Juan Martínez de Rozas Correa was the earliest leader in the Chilean struggle for independence.He was born at Mendoza in 1759, the son of Juan Martínez de Soto Rozas and María Prudencia Correa Villegas. In his early life he was a professor of law, theology and philosophy at Santiago...
  
  
• Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei Aubel is a retired Chilean Air Force General that was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after Gustavo Leigh was dismissed in 1978. Before he became a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government...
  
  
• César Mendoza
  César Mendoza
  General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the Carabineros de Chile....
  
  
• José Toribio Merino
  José Toribio Merino
  José Toribio Merino Castro was one of the principal coup leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, along with General Augusto Pinochet of the Army, General Gustavo Leigh of the Air Force, and General Mendoza of the "Carabineros"...
  
  
• Francisco Nef
  Francisco Nef
  Vice Admiral Francisco Nef Jara was a Chilean naval officer and member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Rodolfo Stange
  Rodolfo Stange
  General Rodolfo Stange Oelckers is a Chilean politician and former senator. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the police force . He was elected Senator in 1998, finishing his term in 2005.Stange was born in Puerto Montt, in the south of Chile...
  
  
• Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Field Marshal Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista , frequently misnamed Mateo de Toro y Zambrano in many Chilean history publications, was Viscount of La Descubierta and later Count of La Conquista...
  
  

Royal Governors of Chile

• Royal Governor of Chile
  Royal Governor of Chile
  The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district known as the Kingdom of Chile. This district was also called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General...
  
  
• Francisco de Aguirre (conquistador)
  Francisco de Aguirre (conquistador)
  Francisco de Aguirre was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.-Early life:...
  
  
• Melchor Bravo de Saravia
  Melchor Bravo de Saravia
  Melchor Bravo de Saravia y Sotomayor was a Spanish conquistador, interim viceroy of Peru, and Royal Governor of Chile.-Early career:...
  
  
• Gabriel Cano de Aponte
  Gabriel Cano de Aponte
  Gabriel Cano de Aponte was a Spanish soldier who served as Royal Governor of Chile from 1717 to 1733. His administration was the longest of all Colonial Governors and the second longest in the history of Chile after the administration of General Augusto Pinochet, who surpassed him by some eight...
  
  
• Alonso García de Ramón
  Alonso García de Ramón
  Alonso García de Ramón was a Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile: first temporarily from July of 1600 to February of 1601, and then from March of 1605 to August of 1610. He was born in Cuenca, Spain in 1552....
  
  
• Francisco Antonio García Carrasco
  Francisco Antonio García Carrasco
  Francisco Antonio García Carrasco Díaz was a Spanish soldier and Royal Governor of Chile. His political relations with Juan Martinez de Rozas and a smuggling scandal involving the frigate Scorpion destroyed what little authority he had, and required that he surrender his post to Mateo de Toro...
  
  
• Martín García Óñez de Loyola
  Martín García Óñez de Loyola
  Don Martín García Óñez de Loyola was a Spanish Basque soldier and Royal Governor of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete
  García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete
  García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete was a Spanish soldier, governor of Chile, and viceroy of Peru...
  
  
• Francisco Laso de la Vega
  Francisco Laso de la Vega
  Francisco Laso de la Vega y Alvarado was a Spanish soldier who served as Royal Governor of Chile from December of 1629 to May of 1639. Victor in many battles against the Mapuche in the Arauco War....
  
  
• Francisco López de Zúñiga
  Francisco López de Zúñiga
  Francisco López de Zúñiga y Meneses, 2nd Marquis of Baides and Count of Pedrosa was a Spanish soldier who served as Royal Governor of Chile from May of 1639 to May of 1646....
  
  
• Casimiro Marcó del Pont
  Casimiro Marcó del Pont
  Francisco Casimiro Marcó del Pont Ángel Díaz y Méndez was a Spanish soldier and the last Governor of Chile. He was one of the main figures of the Chilean independence process, being the final Spaniard to rule as Royal Governor of Chile from 1815 to 1817, when he was deposed and captured by the...
  
  
• Tomás Marín de Poveda
  Tomás Marín de Poveda
  Tomás López Marín y González de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Luis Merlo de la Fuente
  Luis Merlo de la Fuente
  Luis Merlo de la Fuente Ruiz de Beteta was a Spanish colonial official who briefly served as the Royal Governor of Chile, in 1610–11.He was born in Valdepeñas, Spain to Luis Merlo de la Fuente and Maria Ruiz de Betena. He went to America, specifically Panama, in 1588 in the capacity of an oidor or...
  
  
• Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno
  Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno
  Ambrosio Bernardo O'Higgins, 1st Marquis of Osorno born Ambrose Bernard O'Higgins , was a member of the O'Higgins family and an Irish-born Spanish colonial administrator...
  
  
• Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  Domingo Ortíz de Rosas y García de Villasuso, 1st Marquis of Poblaciones was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of Chile.-As Governor of Chile:...
  
  
• Mariano Osorio
  Mariano Osorio
  Mariano de Osorio was a Spanish general and Governor of Chile, from 1814 to 1815.-Early career:Osorio was born in Seville, Spain. He joined the Spanish army and as many of his contemporaries, his military career began during the Spanish Peninsular War in 1808 as an artillery general, as well as...
  
  
• Rodrigo de Quiroga
  Rodrigo de Quiroga
  Rodrigo de Quiroga López de Ulloa was a Spanish conquistador of Galician origin. He was twice the Royal Governor of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Alonso de Ribera
  Alonso de Ribera
  Alonso de Ribera de Pareja was a Spanish soldier and twice Spanish royal governor of Chile .-Early life:...
  
  
• Martín Ruiz de Gamboa
  Martín Ruiz de Gamboa
  Martín Ruiz de Gamboa de Berriz was a Spanish Basque conquistador, and served as a Royal Governor of Chile.-Early years:He was born in Durango, Biscay, the son of Andrés Ruiz de Gamboa and Nafarra de Berriz, and served as a youth in the royal navy in the Levant...
  
  
• Alonso de Sotomayor
  Alonso de Sotomayor
  Alonso de Sotomayor y Valmediano was a Spanish conquistador from Extremadura, and a Royal Governor of Chile.-Early life:He was born in Trujillo, in the province of Extremadura, the son of Gutiérrez de Sotomayor e Hinojosa and Beatriz de Valmediano...
  
  
• Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Mateo de Toro y Zambrano
  Field Marshal Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista , frequently misnamed Mateo de Toro y Zambrano in many Chilean history publications, was Viscount of La Descubierta and later Count of La Conquista...
  
  
• Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro de Valdivia
  Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command...
  
  
• Francisco de Villagra
  Francisco de Villagra
  Francisco de Villagra Velázquez was a Spanish conquistador, and three times governor of Chile.-Early life:Born at [Santervás de Campos], he was the son of Alvaro de Sarría and Ana Velázquez de Villagra, who were not married. For this reason he took the name of his mother...
  
  
• Pedro de Villagra
  Pedro de Villagra
  Pedro de Villagra y Martínez was a Spanish soldier who participated in the conquest of Chile, being appointed its Royal Governor between 1563 and 1565....
  
  

Chilean historians

• Diego Barros Arana
  Diego Barros Arana
  Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana was an educator, diplomat and Chilean historian. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century and his most famous work is the General History of Chile...
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Encina
  Francisco Antonio Encina
  Francisco Antonio Encina Armanet was a political essayist and Chilean historian. He authored the History of Chile from Prehistory to 1891: with 20 volumes, it stands as the largest individual historical work of the 20th century in Chile....
  
  
• Benjamín Vicuña MacKenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sergio Villalobos Rivera
  Sergio Villalobos Rivera
  Sergio Villalobos Rivera is a Chilean historian, who was given the Chilean National award of History in 1992.He is influenced by the new history, and take new perspective of the history of Chile, using the longue durée 'Long Duration' of Fernand Braudel to decipher all their content...
  
  
• Gabriel Salazar
  Gabriel Salazar
  Gabriel Salazar Vergara, is a Chilean historian.-Awards:*2006 - Chilean National History Award 2006...
  
  

Chilean journalists

• Carolina Aguilera
  Carolina Aguilera
  Carolina Aguilera is a Chilean journalist who lives in New York.Carolina Aguilera's first book was published by Planeta in September 2002. Our Heroes profiles the Latino firemen who died on September 11, 2001. This was the first time that Planeta, the largest of the Spanish-language publishers,...
  
  
• Santiago Pavlović
• Carlos Pinto
  Carlos Pinto
  Carlos Pinto is a popular Chilean journalist and television presenter. In 1984, he and Santiago Pavlovic began an investigative program called Informe Especial which airs in TVN. He is the father of the football player Sebastián Pinto...
  
  
• Fernando Solis
  Fernando Solis
  Fernando Solis Lara is a professional radio and TV host, born in Valdivia, Chile.Internationally recognized for his work during more than 20 years in radio and television, Fernando is the official voice of Canal 7 in Chile, TVN. He is also the voice of Sr. Manguera in the popular children's program...
  
  

Olympic competitors for Chile

• Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...
  
  
• Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio "Tripa" Barrientos was a Chilean boxer, who won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. A year earlier he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. His nickname was Tripa...
  
  
• Matias Brain
  Matias Brain
  Matias "Mati" Brain Peña is Chilean triathlete. Nicknamed "Mati", Brain competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took forty-first place with a total time of 1:53:44.90.-References:*...
  
  
• Sebastián González
  Sebastián González
  Sebastián Ignacio González Valdés , is a Chilean football striker who currently plays for The Strongest. His nickname is "Chamagol".- Career :...
  
  
• Alberto Larraguibel
  Alberto Larraguibel
  Colonel Alberto Larraguibel Morales was a Chilean Army officer of Basque descent born in Angol, Chile. He remains the record holder for Puissance on Horseback, one of the longest-running unbroken sport records in history -- years as of .Then-Captain Larraguibel broke the record for the...
  
  
• Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas Manríquez is a former Chilean boxer. He won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He also claimed the bronze at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States. He was born in Villarrica, Chile.-References:...
  
  
• César Mendoza
  César Mendoza
  General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the Carabineros de Chile....
  
  
• Reinaldo Navia
  Reinaldo Navia
  Reinaldo Marcelino Navia Amador is a Chilean footballer, who currently plays for the Chilean Primera División side Ñublense as Striker....
  
  
• Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Andrés Olarra Guerrero is a footballer. He plays as a defender, currently in Unión Española.-Career:Olarra began his career in Audax Italiano...
  
  
• David Pizarro
  David Pizarro
  David Marcelo Pizarro Cortés is a Chilean football Midfielder. Pizarro. He also plays for the Chile national team, for which he won the Bronze medal at 2000 Summer Olympics, at Sydney...
  
  
• Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza Reyes was an athlete from Chile, who won the country's first ever Olympic medal by finishing second at the Men's Marathon in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He clocked 2 hours, 33 minutes and 23 seconds.-References:*...
  
  
• Pedro Reyes
  Pedro Reyes
  See also, Pedro Reyes Pedro Antonio Reyes González is a former Chilean football defender....
  
  
• Nelson Tapia
• Gert Weil
  Gert Weil
  Gert Michael Weil is a retired Chilean shot putter of German ancestry, who dominated the sport on the South American scene during the 1980s and early 1990s. His best performance at a global event was a sixth place at the 1988 Olympic Games...
  
  
• Iván Zamorano
  Iván Zamorano
  Iván Luis Zamorano Zamora is a retired Chilean football striker. Along with former world-class forward Marcelo Salas and former world player of the year Elias Figueroa he is regarded as one of Chile's most recognized footballers.He was a member of the Chilean national team and played in the 1998...
  
  

Chilean painters

• Carlos Catasse
  Carlos Catasse
  Carlos Catasse , born Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda in Santiago, Chile, formed his new last name by combining the first two letters of his first, middle and last names. Catasse is a Chilean painter of international recognition...
  
  
• Claudio Gonzalez
• Roberto Matta
  Roberto Matta
  Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren , better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art....
  
  
• Camilo Mori
  Camilo Mori
  Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse....
  
  
• Manuel Ortiz de Zárate
  Manuel Ortiz de Zárate
  Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto was a Chilean painter.Born Manuel Revuelta Ortiz de Zárate Pinto in Como, Italy, he was the son of Chilean composer Eleodoro Ortiz de Zárate and of María Cristina Pinto Errázuriz...
  
  

Chilean poets

• Sergio Badilla Castillo
  Sergio Badilla Castillo
  Sergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...
  
  
• Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores was a Chilean poet, writer, and journalist.-Works:*Israel *Tercer mundo *Las cadenas vienen de lejos*Cuaderno de la Madre y del Nino...
  
  
• Elicura Chihuailaf
  Elicura Chihuailaf
  Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán is a Mapuche Chilean poet and author whose works are written both in Mapudungun and in Spanish, and have been translated into many other languages as well...
  
  
• Trini Decombe
• Vicente Huidobro
  Vicente Huidobro
  Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo , which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.Huidobro was born into a wealthy...
  
  
• Pedro Lastra
  Pedro Lastra
  Pedro Lastra is a Chilean poet and essayist.Lastra is a graduate of the University of Chile. From 1966-73, he was the literary advisor to the University Press and director of the Letras de América collection. In 1972, he moved to the United States and taught at Stony Brook University in the...
  
  
• Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945...
  
  
• Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
  
  
• Nina (poet)
• Nicanor Parra
  Nicanor Parra
  Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile, who has been considered to be a popular poet in Chile with enormous influence and popularity in Latin America, and also considered one of the most important poets of the Spanish language literature...
  
  
• Carlos Pezoa Véliz
  Carlos Pezoa Véliz
  Carlos Pezoa Véliz was a poet, educator and journalist from Chile. His literary work remained largely unpublished until his death at the young age of 29...
  
  
• David Rosenmann-Taub
  David Rosenmann-Taub
  David Rosenmann-Taub is a Chilean poet, musician, and artist. His precocious talent in both literature and music was recognized and encouraged by his father, a polyglot, and his mother, a virtuoso pianist. She began teaching him the instrument when he was two; by nine, he himself was giving...
  
  
• Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva Endeiza was a Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer. Victor Silva was of Basque descent by mother's side....
  
  

Chilean models

• Belén Montilla
  Belén Montilla
  Belén Montilla Torreblanca , Miss Universo Chile 2006, was chosen on July 5, 2006 under the jury presided over by the designer José Cardoch, and the organization of Coca Cané. Montilla represented Chile in Miss Universe 2006....
  
  
• Constanza Silva
  Constanza Silva
  Constanza Silva Aguayo, is a Chilean model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented her country in Miss World 2006.-Miss World 2006:Silva was crowned Miss World Chile in 2006, the official representative to the Miss World...
  
  
• Gabriela Barros
  Gabriela Barros
  Gabriela Barros Tapia, Miss Chile Universe 2004, was chosen on May, 2004 under the organization of Ana María Cummins and Zegers DDB Agency. The first runner-up was Francisca Silva .-Miss Universe 2004:...
  
  
• Hil Hernández
  Hil Hernández
  Hil Yesenia Hernández Escobar , is a beauty queen from Chile. On November 26, 2006, she won the Miss Earth 2006 beauty pageant, beating over 81 other delegates. She's the first Chilean woman to win the coveted crown...
  
  
• Marie Ann Salas
• Renata Ruiz
  Renata Ruiz
  Renata Ruiz Pérez is a Chilean model, . She was the winner of the contest Elite Model Look Chile 2001. In September of the same year she took part in the international contest , where she competed with more than 60 delegates of 40 countries. The winner was the Dutch Rianne Ten Haken and Ruiz was...
  
  
• Valentina Cárdenas

Chilean tennis players

• Ricardo Acuña
  Ricardo Acuña
  Ricardo Acuña is a former tennis player from Chile, who won three doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on March 17, 1986, when he reached 47th in the world....
  
  
• Paul Capdeville
  Paul Capdeville
  Paul Gerard Capdeville Castro is a Chilean tennis player.Capdeville was born in Santiago, Chile. On May 18, 2009, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of 76....
  
  
• Jaime Fillol
  Jaime Fillol
  Jaime Fillol is a former tennis player from Chile. He played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s.Fillol was ranked as high as world number 14 in singles on the ATP Rankings and number 82 in doubles .In the Open era , Fillol won seven singles titles and 15 doubles titles...
  
  
• Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister Bohner , is a former Chilean tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. He is the brother of Heinz and Fritz Gildemeister, who are also tennis players...
  
  
• Fernando González
  Fernando González
  ----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
  
  
• Anita Lizana
  Anita Lizana
  Anita Lizana de Ellis was a World Number 1 tennis player from Chile. She was the first Latin American, and first Hispanic person, to be ranked World Number 1 tennis player. Also, Anita Lizana was the first Latin American to win a Grand Slam singles championship. She won the U.S...
  
  
• Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried , nicknamed Vampiro , is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist...
  
  
• Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed El Chino and El zurdo de Vitacura , he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No...
  
  

Chilean families

• Alessandri family
  Alessandri family
  The Alessandri family of Chile is of Italian origin, became politically influential during the early part of the 20th century, and has played a significant role in Chilean politics. The first Alessandri who came to Chile was named Giuseppe Pietro Alessandri Tarzi...
  
  
• Carrera family
  Carrera family
  The Carrera family of Chile became politically influential during the colonial period, and played a significant role in Chilean Independence. They remained politically important throughout the 19th century...
  
  
• Frei family
  Frei family
  The Frei family of Chile is formed by the descendants of Swiss Eduardo Frei Schlinz and Chilean Victoria Montalva Martínez. It became politically influential during the 20th century, and has played and still plays a significant role in Chilean politics...
  
  
• Montt family
  Montt family
  The Montt family of Chile became politically influential during the 19th century, and played a very significant role in Chilean politics; it is still important...
  
  
• Parra family
  Parra family
  The Parra family is a Chilean family known for its many artists. Members of the Parra family are noted contributors to Chilean culture with almost every member being a distinguished national artist. The family is not related to the Parra brothers, members of the Chilean rock fusion group Los...
  
  

Chilean human rights victim

• Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Arturo Miguel Bachelet Martínez was a Brigadier General of the Chilean Air Force. He opposed the 1973 coup of General Augusto Pinochet, and was imprisoned and subject to torture for several months until his death in 1974 of heart problems at the hands of the dictatorship.Bachelet was born...
  
  
• Charles Horman
  Charles Horman
  Charles Horman was an American journalist and was one of the victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, that deposed the socialist president, Salvador Allende, after bombing the Chilean presidential palace on September 11, 1973...
  
  
• Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
  
  
• Orlando Letelier
  Orlando Letelier
  Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Socialist President Salvador Allende...
  
  
• Carlos Lorca
  Carlos Lorca
  Carlos Enrique Lorca Tobar , was a Chilean physician, president of the Students' Federation and then deputy for Valdivia province and leader of the Socialist Party of Chile....
  
  
• Juan Maino
  Juan Maino
  Juan Bosco Maino Canales was a photographer, political activist, and opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile. He was a leader in MAPU...
  
  
• Manuel Negrete (human rights victim)
  Manuel Negrete (human rights victim)
  Manuel Estanislao Negrete Hernández , was a Chilean man who was allegedly killed by policemen serving Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet....
  
  
• Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría was a member of Chile’s Partido Socialista.Olea lived in Santiago, Chile. He was detained by “security agents” on 11 September 1974, and became one of the "detenidos desaparecidos". Manuel Contreras was convicted in 2002 for his abduction.-External links:*...
  
  
• Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Washington Peña Hen was a Chilean composer and an academic at the University of Chile. He was murdered by the Caravan of Death.-Works:...
  
  
• Carmen Gloria Quintana
  Carmen Gloria Quintana
  Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia is a Chilean woman who suffered severe, almost fatal burns in an incident where she and other youngsters were detained by an army patrol during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet...
  
  
• Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
  Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
  Rodrigo Andrés Rojas De Negri was a young photographer who was burned alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.-Background:...
  
  

Chilean-Americans

• Arturo Valenzuela
• Ariel Dorfman
  Ariel Dorfman
  Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
  
  
• Don Francisco (television host)
  Don Francisco (television host)
  Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld , better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States...
  
  
• Jorge Garcia
  Jorge Garcia
  Jorge García is a U.S. actor and comedian. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the television show Becker and later for his portrayal of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the television series Lost. Garcia also performs as a stand-up comedian.-Early life:García was born...
  
  
• Isabel Allende
  Isabel Allende
  Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
  
  
• Nina (poet)
• Patricia Demick
  Patricia Demick
  Patricia Demick is a female boxer who made history by becoming Chile's first world boxing champion ever, including male boxing....
  
  
• Horatio Sanz
  Horatio Sanz
  Horatio Sanz is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006. Sanz most recently starred alongside his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell in the Comedy Central series Big Lake.-Early life:Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in...
  
  
• Alexander Witt
• Tom Araya
  Tom Araya
  Tom Araya is a Chilean musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer...
  
  

Chilean-Canadians

• José Miguel Contreras
• Beto Cuevas
  Beto Cuevas
  Luis Alberto "Beto" Cuevas Olmedo is the former lead singer of the now-defunct Chilean rock band, La Ley. He grew up in Montréal, Quebec, and is fluent in French, English, and Spanish. He was born in Santiago, Chile, and now resides in Los Angeles and is pursuing a solo career.-Biography:His...
  
  
• Alberto Guerrero
  Alberto Guerrero
  Antonio Alberto García Guerrero was a Chilean-Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher. While he is most famously remembered as the mentor of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, Guerrero influenced several generations of musicians through his many years of teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of...
  
  
• Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez is a Chilean-Canadian folk and nouveau flamenco guitarist. He has won many awards from the Latino community....
  
  

Chilean-Mexicans

• Lucho Gatica
  Lucho Gatica
  Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, better known as Lucho Gatica, is a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host. It is estimated that Gatica has released more than 90 recordings. He has toured a vast portion of the world, having made concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Luis Gatica
  Luis Gatica
  -Biography:Luis Gatica was born in Veracruz. He grew in a show business family. He is the son of Chilean singer Lucho Gatica and Puerto Rican actress Mapita Cortés; he is the nephew of Puerto Rican actress Mapy Cortés and second cousin of Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer Paquito Cordero...
  
  
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
  
  
• Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Enzo Reinoso Valdenegro is a Chilean football coach. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably as a member of the Club América Mexican team. He is one of the best foreigner who played in Mexico, and the best that ever played at Club América.-Player:He began his career in his home...
  
  
• Rodrigo Ruiz
  Rodrigo Ruiz
  Rodrigo Patricio Ruiz de Barbieri is a Mexican-Chilean footballer. He played for Unión Española, Toros Neza, Santos Laguna, CD Veracruz, and now plays for Estudiantes Tecos of the Primera División de México...
  
  

Croatian Chileans

• Jéssica Eterovic
  Jéssica Eterovic
  Jéssica Miroslava Eterovic Pozas was Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1993.She is married to television producer Eduardo Dominguez.Jessica Miroslava is of Croat origin.-References:*...
  
  
• Eric Goles
  Eric Goles
  Eric Antonio Goles Chacc is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France...
  
  
• Andrónico Luksic
  Andrónico Luksic
  Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa was a Chilean businessman of Croatian origin and founder of the Luksic Group...
  
  
• Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Petar Mirošević Albornoz is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for the Chilean Primera División side Universidad Católica as an Attacking midfielder.-Club carrer:...
  
  
• Paulina Mladinic
  Paulina Mladinic
  Paulina Mladinic Zorzano was the Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1997. Paulina is of Croatian and Basque descent.-References:*...
  
  
• Iván Morovic
  Iván Morovic
  Iván Eduardo Morović Fernández is a Chilean chess player and an International Grandmaster of Croatian origin. He often has been the best Latin American chess player....
  
  
• Leonor Oyarzún
  Leonor Oyarzún
  Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic was First Lady of Chile and is the wife of former President Patricio Aylwin.She was born in 1922, daughter of Manuel Oyarzún Lorca and Ana Ivanovic Roccatagliata...
  
  
• Santiago Pavlović
• Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia....
  
  
• Jonnathan Tafra
  Jonnathan Tafra
  Johnnathan Tafra Quitral is a Chilean sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-1 1000 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:*...
  
  
• Radomiro Tomic
  Radomiro Tomic
  Radomiro Tomic Romero was a Chilean politician of Croatian origin. He was one of the most prominent leaders of that country's Christian Democrat Party....
  
  
• Tonka Tomicic
  Tonka Tomicic
  Tonka Tomicic Petric is a Chilean model and television presenter of Croat origin.-Career:She first came to public attention as the Chilean representative to the 1995 Miss World pageant. Soon after she was invited to the program Pase lo que Pase of TVN as a fashion commentator...
  
  
• Néstor Kirchner
  Néstor Kirchner
  Néstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. Previously, he was Governor of Santa Cruz Province since 10 December 1991. He briefly served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations ...
  
  
• Andrés Morales Milohnic

English-Chileans

• Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards Valdés is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove Vallejo was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Gustavo Leigh
  Gustavo Leigh
  Air General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán was a Chilean general, who represented the Air Force in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and, for a time, in the ruling junta that followed. Leigh was forced out of the military government in 1978.-Biography:Leigh was born in Santiago, son of Hernán Leigh Bañados and...
  
  
• Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton Guzmán was a Chilean Christian Democrat who was targeted by Operation Condor.In 1937, President Arturo Alessandri Palma appointed him as Employment minister....
  
  
• Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Roberto "Sapo" Livingstone Pohlhammer , affectionally called Sapito Livingstone, is a former Chilean goalkeeper, considered the first great footballer in the country's history, who later became a well regarded journalist. He was called El Sapo for his typical posture in the goal mouth...
  
  
• George Robledo
• Ted Robledo
  Ted Robledo
  Eduardo Oliver "Ted" Robledo was a Chilean professional football player. He played as a left-sided defender, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United....
  
  
• Alexander Witt
• Andrés Wood

French Chileans

• Bartolomé Blanche
  Bartolomé Blanche
  General Bartolomé Guillermo Blanche Espejo was a Chilean military officer and provisional president of Chile in 1932....
  
  
• Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet de Goyeneche is a popular Chilean writer, journalist, film critic and film director who rose to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative. Although he was born in Santiago, he spent his first 13 years of life in Encino, California...
  
  
• Nicole Perrot
  Nicole Perrot
  Nicole Perrot is a Chilean professional golfer. She is the first Chilean-born player to win on the LPGA TourPerrot was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. She won the 2001 U.S. Girls' Junior and was runner-up at the U.S. Women's Amateur that same year. She turned professional the following year. She...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Roberto Viaux
  Roberto Viaux
  Roberto Urbano Viaux Marambio was a Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempts in Chile in 1969 and 1970...
  
  

German Chileans

• Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...
  
  
• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
  Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt was a Chilean composer.Becerra-Schmidt lived in Germany since 1973 and taught at Oldenburg University since 1974. Becerra was the most prolific Chilean composer...
  
  
• Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
  Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
  Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. , he is an Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with mammalian promoters...
  
  
• Hans Braumüller
• Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister Bohner , is a former Chilean tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. He is the brother of Heinz and Fritz Gildemeister, who are also tennis players...
  
  
• Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées El Jefe was a Chilean political figure and author.Born in Santiago of a German mother. He was ideologically influenced by Oswald Spengler...
  
  
• Oscar Hahn
  Oscar Hahn
  Óscar Arturo Hahn Garcés is a Chilean writer and poet. Known in Chile as one of the writers of the Generation of the 70s , Hahn studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago during his youth...
  
  
• Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...
  
  
• Carlos Kaiser
  Carlos Kaiser
  Carlos Kaiser is a Chilean campaigner on issues affecting people with disabilities. He has an amputated upper and lower limbs...
  
  
• Sebastián Keitel
  Sebastián Keitel
  Sebastián Keitel Bianchi is a Chilean sprinter who competed mostly in the 200 metres. He was coached by renowned Chilean coach Pedro Soto Acuna, who has since been living in Singapore....
  
  
• Carlos Keller
  Carlos Keller
  Carlos Keller Rueff was a far-right Chilean writer, historian, and political figure.-Early years:Keller was born in Concepción, Chile, into a family of German origin and completed his education at universities in Germany...
  
  
• Mathias Klotz
  Mathias Klotz
  Mathias Klotz Germain is a Chilean architect, born in Viña del Mar on 13 April 1965. Studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he graduated in 1991...
  
  
• Don Francisco (television host)
  Don Francisco (television host)
  Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld , better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States...
  
  
• Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei Aubel is a retired Chilean Air Force General that was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after Gustavo Leigh was dismissed in 1978. Before he became a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government...
  
  
• Rodolfo Amando Philippi
  Rodolfo Amando Philippi
  Rodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
  
  
• René Schneider
  René Schneider
  General René Schneider Chereau was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt. His murder virtually assured Salvador Allende's eventual overthrow and death in a coup three years later...
  
  
• Klaus von Storch
  Klaus von Storch
  Klaus Bernhard von Storch Krüger is a Chilean aerospace engineer and astronaut trainee.Von Storch was born in Osorno, in southern Chile. In 1992, he was selected by the Chilean Space Agency for the preparation for the flight on the Space Shuttle...
  
  
• Gert Weil
  Gert Weil
  Gert Michael Weil is a retired Chilean shot putter of German ancestry, who dominated the sport on the South American scene during the 1980s and early 1990s. His best performance at a global event was a sixth place at the 1988 Olympic Games...
  
  

Irish Chileans

• Patricio Aylwin
  Patricio Aylwin
  Patricio Aylwin Azócar was the first president of Chile after its return to democratic rule in 1990, following the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.- Early life :...
  
  
• Alberto Blest Gana
  Alberto Blest Gana
  Alberto Blest Gana was a Chilean novelist and diplomat, considered the father of Chilean novel. Blest Gana was of Irish and Basque descent....
  
  
• Charlotte Lewis
  Charlotte Lewis
  Charlotte Lewis is an English actress.-Career:Charlotte Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 Roman Polanski film Pirates. She followed it that same year with the female lead in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy. Later appearances include the film Tripwire and Storyville...
  
  
• Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Lynch
  Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a Rear Admiral in the Chilean navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of the Pacific...
  
  
• Juan Mackenna
  Juan Mackenna
  Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army....
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  
• Benjamín Vicuña MacKenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  

Italian Chileans

• Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, and then again in 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938....
  
  
• Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970...
  
  
• Anacleto Angelini
  Anacleto Angelini
  Anacleto Angelini Fabbri was an Italian born, Chilean businessman. At the time of his death, he was South America's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of USD $6 billion. He was chairman at Antarchile, one of Latin America's largest conglomerates.-Life:Angelini was born in Ferrara,...
  
  
• Cecilia Bolocco
• Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti
  Eduardo Gatti is a well known Chilean singer-songwriter in the tradition of Nueva Canción and Nueva Trova. His best known song is "Los Momentos" , originally recorded in 1970 by Gatti when he was a member of the band Los Blops....
  
  
• Fernando González
  Fernando González
  ----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
  
  
• Beatriz Marinello
  Beatriz Marinello
  Beatriz Marinello is a Woman International Master chess player from the United States. She was president of the United States Chess Federation from 2003 to 2005 and a member of the executive board from 2003 to 2007.-Life:...
  
  
• Joaquín Toesca
  Joaquín Toesca
  Joaquín Toesca y Ricci , born Gioacchino Toesca, was an Italian architect who worked for the king and governors of the Spanish Empire, especially in colonial Chile....
  
  

Chilean Jews

• Ariel Dorfman
  Ariel Dorfman
  Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
  
  
• Don Francisco (television host)
  Don Francisco (television host)
  Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld , better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States...
  
  
• Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...
  
  
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
  
  
• Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva was an Argentinian marrano physician, who learned about his Jewishness through his father Diego Nuñez da Silva, who was a Jewish physician. Francisco studied the scriptures while he was a medical student. After a few years in Chile he decided to assume fully his...
  
  
• Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried , nicknamed Vampiro , is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist...
  
  
• Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental Igualt is a retired Chilean-Israeli professional football player.On the club level, Rozental has played for Universidad Católica , Colo-Colo , and Unión Española in his native Chile, Rangers in Scotland, where he became the first player from South America to play for the...
  
  
• Volodia Teitelboim
  Volodia Teitelboim
  Volodia Valentín Teitelboim Volosky was a Chilean lawyer, politician and author.Born in Chillán to Jewish immigrants , Teitelboim was interested in literature from an early age...
  
  

Chilean Freemasons

• Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, and then again in 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938....
  
  
• Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
  
  
• Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Arturo Miguel Bachelet Martínez was a Brigadier General of the Chilean Air Force. He opposed the 1973 coup of General Augusto Pinochet, and was imprisoned and subject to torture for several months until his death in 1974 of heart problems at the hands of the dictatorship.Bachelet was born...
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  

Chilean people stubs

• Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel Urrutia was president of Chile in 1932.He studied law at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and in 1897 received his law degree. During the Chilean Civil War in 1891, Oyanedel fought for the Congressional army.In 1927, he was appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Chile ,...
  
  
• Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Bachelet
  Alberto Arturo Miguel Bachelet Martínez was a Brigadier General of the Chilean Air Force. He opposed the 1973 coup of General Augusto Pinochet, and was imprisoned and subject to torture for several months until his death in 1974 of heart problems at the hands of the dictatorship.Bachelet was born...
  
  
• Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores
  Alberto Baeza Flores was a Chilean poet, writer, and journalist.-Works:*Israel *Tercer mundo *Las cadenas vienen de lejos*Cuaderno de la Madre y del Nino...
  
  
• Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet
  Alberto Fuguet de Goyeneche is a popular Chilean writer, journalist, film critic and film director who rose to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative. Although he was born in Santiago, he spent his first 13 years of life in Encino, California...
  
  
• Alberto Guerrero
  Alberto Guerrero
  Antonio Alberto García Guerrero was a Chilean-Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher. While he is most famously remembered as the mentor of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, Guerrero influenced several generations of musicians through his many years of teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of...
  
  
• Aliro Godoy
• Álvaro Guevara
  Alvaro Guevara
  Álvaro Guevara was a painter, based in London and loosely associated with the Bloomsbury set.He was born 13 July 1894 in Valparaíso, Chile.Guevara left Chile in 1909 and arrived in London on 1 January 1910. He attended Bradford Technical College, studying the cloth trade, but also spent two years...
  
  
• Antonio Luis Jiménez
  Antonio Luis Jiménez
  Luis Antonio Jiménez Garcés , more commonly known as Luis Jiménez, is a Chilean footballer. He plays for Al-Ahli Dubai as an attacking midfielder. He was also a member of the Chilean national team.-Early career:...
  
  
• Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta
  Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia....
  
  
• Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, and then again in 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938....
  
  
• Aucán Huilcamán
  Aucán Huilcamán
  Aucán Huilcamán Paillama , leader of the indigenous Mapuche organization Consejo de Todas las Tierras . He intended to run for president in 2005 election, but his candidacy was not accepted as he was not able to collect enough official votes validated by public notaries.-References:...
  
  
• Bartolomé Blanche
  Bartolomé Blanche
  General Bartolomé Guillermo Blanche Espejo was a Chilean military officer and provisional president of Chile in 1932....
  
  
• Benjamín Vicuña MacKenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
  Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton Guzmán was a Chilean Christian Democrat who was targeted by Operation Condor.In 1937, President Arturo Alessandri Palma appointed him as Employment minister....
  
  
• Brenda Hughes
• Camilo Valenzuela
  Camilo Valenzuela
  Camilo Valenzuela was a Chilean General and chief of the garrison in Santiago de Chile. In 1970 he led a group that with intent to stop the newly elected Salvador Allende from being inaugurated as president, tried to kidnap constitutionalist Army Commander-in-Chief René Schneider...
  
  
• Candelaria Pérez
  Candelaria Perez
  Candelaria Pérez was a sergeant in the Chilean Army. She was part of the expeditionary forces sent to Peru to fight against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. She was considered the hero of the Battle of Yungay when she led an assault against the entrenched Confederate troops....
  
  
• Carlos Campos
• Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas
  Carlos Lucas Manríquez is a former Chilean boxer. He won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He also claimed the bronze at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States. He was born in Villarrica, Chile.-References:...
  
  
• Carlos Pinto
  Carlos Pinto
  Carlos Pinto is a popular Chilean journalist and television presenter. In 1984, he and Santiago Pavlovic began an investigative program called Informe Especial which airs in TVN. He is the father of the football player Sebastián Pinto...
  
  
• Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Reinoso
  Carlos Enzo Reinoso Valdenegro is a Chilean football coach. He played in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably as a member of the Club América Mexican team. He is one of the best foreigner who played in Mexico, and the best that ever played at Club América.-Player:He began his career in his home...
  
  
• Carmen Gloria Quintana
  Carmen Gloria Quintana
  Carmen Gloria Quintana Arancibia is a Chilean woman who suffered severe, almost fatal burns in an incident where she and other youngsters were detained by an army patrol during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet...
  
  
• Carolina Tohá
  Carolina Tohá
  Carolina Montserrat Tohá Morales is a Chilean politician from the Party for Democracy . She is the daughter of the late Socialist politician, Vice President, and minister of Salvador Allende, José Tohá....
  
  
• Caupolicán
  Caupolican
  Caupolicán was a Toqui, the military leader of the Mapuche people of Chile, that commanded their army during the first Mapuche rising against the Spanish conquistadors from 1553 to 1558....
  
  
• Christian Castañeda
  Christian Castañeda
  Cristián Alberto Castañeda Vargas is a retired Chilean football player. He played for a few clubs, including Universidad de Chile and Everton Viña del Mar, his last club was Deportes Arica....
  
  
• Clarence Acuña
  Clarence Acuña
  Clárence Williams Acuña Donoso is a Chilean former professional football player. He played as a midfielder.- Chilean League :...
  
  
• Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio Barrientos
  Claudio "Tripa" Barrientos was a Chilean boxer, who won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. A year earlier he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. His nickname was Tripa...
  
  
• Claudio González
• Claudio Huepe
  Claudio Huepe
  Claudio Huepe García was a Chilean politician, engineer and economist, member of the Christian Democrat party, who occupied several government and political positions. During his career, he was the provincial governor of Arauco, a member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, a government minister,...
  
  
• Claudio Naranjo
  Claudio Naranjo
  Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions. He is one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls , and a developer of the Enneagram of Personality and founder of the Seekers After Truth Institute...
  
  
• Claudio Parra
• Claudio Valenzuela
  Claudio Valenzuela
  Claudio Valenzuela is a guitarist, singer, and composer. He is most known as the lead-singer and guitarist of Chilean rock band Lucybell. Formed in 1991, Valenzuela is the only original member and the main composer of the band, as the line-up shifted over the years...
  
  
• Clodomiro Almeyda
  Clodomiro Almeyda
  Clodomiro Almeyda Medina was a Chilean politician. A leading member of the Socialist Party, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 1970 to 1973 during the Presidency of Salvador Allende....
  
  
• Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo was a Mapuche leader in the early period of the Arauco War. He was a major figure in Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's epic poem La Araucana, about the early Arauco War. In the poem he was the one that proposed the contest between the rival candidates for Toqui that resulted in the choice of...
  
  
• Cristián Andrés Álvarez Valenzuela
• Dagoberto Godoy
  Dagoberto Godoy
  Dagoberto Godoy Fuentealba was a Chilean pilot and the first person to fly over the Andes....
  
  
• Diamela Eltit
  Diamela Eltit
  Diamela Eltit is a writer and a Spanish professor from Chile. She currently holds a teaching appointment at New York University, where she teaches creative writing....
  
  
• Diego Barros
• Diego Barros Arana
  Diego Barros Arana
  Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana was an educator, diplomat and Chilean historian. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century and his most famous work is the General History of Chile...
  
  
• Diego Portales
  Diego Portales
  Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the...
  
  
• Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  Domingo Ortíz de Rosas y García de Villasuso, 1st Marquis of Poblaciones was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of Chile.-As Governor of Chile:...
  
  
• Eduardo Barrios
  Eduardo Barrios
  - Overview :After his father’s death, at the age of 5 his family moved to Lima until the age of 15 where he was the victim of harassment by his classmates. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood...
  
  
• Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Carrasco
  Eduardo Guillermo Carrasco Pirard is a Chilean musician, university professor of philosophy, author, and one of the founders of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún - and the group's musical director from 1969 to 1989....
  
  
• Emiliano Figueroa
  Emiliano Figueroa
  Emiliano Figueroa Larraín was President of Chile from December 23, 1925 until his resignation on May 10, 1927. He also served as Acting president for a few months on 1910.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fabián Estay
• Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
  Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
  Federico Errázuriz Echaurren was a Chilean political figure. Born in Santiago, he served as President of Chile between 1896 and his death in 1901. Federico Errázuriz was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
  Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
  Federico Marcos del Rosario Errázuriz Zañartu was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1871 and 1876. He was born in Santiago in 1825 and died there in 1877. Errázuriz was of Basque descent....
  
  
• Fernando Errázuriz
  Fernando Errázuriz
  Fernando de Errázuriz y Martínez de Aldunate , also known as Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, was a Chilean political figure. He served as provisional president of Chile in 1831. He was of Basque descent....
  
  
• Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei
  Fernando Matthei Aubel is a retired Chilean Air Force General that was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after Gustavo Leigh was dismissed in 1978. Before he became a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government...
  
  
• Fernando Solís
  Fernando Solis
  Fernando Solis Lara is a professional radio and TV host, born in Valdivia, Chile.Internationally recognized for his work during more than 20 years in radio and television, Fernando is the official voice of Canal 7 in Chile, TVN. He is also the voice of Sr. Manguera in the popular children's program...
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Encina
  Francisco Antonio Encina
  Francisco Antonio Encina Armanet was a political essayist and Chilean historian. He authored the History of Chile from Prehistory to 1891: with 20 volumes, it stands as the largest individual historical work of the 20th century in Chile....
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto y Díaz de la Puente was a Chilean political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1827 and 1829.-Early life:He was born in Santiago, the son of Joaquín Pinto and Mercedes Díaz de la Puente...
  
  
• Francisco Coloane
  Francisco Coloane
  Francisco Coloane Cárdenas was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages...
  
  
• Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta
  Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta
  Francisco Ibáñez de Segovia y Peralta was a Spanish colonial administrator who was Royal Governor of Chile from 1700 to 1709.-Sources:...
  
  
• Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva was an Argentinian marrano physician, who learned about his Jewishness through his father Diego Nuñez da Silva, who was a Jewish physician. Francisco studied the scriptures while he was a medical student. After a few years in Chile he decided to assume fully his...
  
  
• Francisco Nef
  Francisco Nef
  Vice Admiral Francisco Nef Jara was a Chilean naval officer and member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile between 1924 and 1925....
  
  
• Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
  Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
  Francisco Antonio Pascual de la Ascensión Ruiz de Tagle y Portales was a Chilean political figure. In 1830, he was briefly president of the country. Provisional President of Republic of Chile elected by Congress.-Biography:...
  
  
• Francisco de la Lastra
  Francisco de la Lastra
  General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile .-Biography:...
  
  
• Gabriel Cano de Aponte
  Gabriel Cano de Aponte
  Gabriel Cano de Aponte was a Spanish soldier who served as Royal Governor of Chile from 1717 to 1733. His administration was the longest of all Colonial Governors and the second longest in the history of Chile after the administration of General Augusto Pinochet, who surpassed him by some eight...
  
  
• Germán Riesco
  Germán Riesco
  Germán Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906.-Early life:...
  
  
• Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro was a Chilean poet. His work is part of the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the twentieth century.- Biography :...
  
  
• Guillermo "Willy" Oddó
• Gustavo Leigh
  Gustavo Leigh
  Air General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán was a Chilean general, who represented the Air Force in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and, for a time, in the ruling junta that followed. Leigh was forced out of the military government in 1978.-Biography:Leigh was born in Santiago, son of Hernán Leigh Bañados and...
  
  
• Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister
  Hans Gildemeister Bohner , is a former Chilean tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. He is the brother of Heinz and Fritz Gildemeister, who are also tennis players...
  
  
• Heraldo Muñoz
  Heraldo Muñoz
  Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela is a Chilean politician and diplomat, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, and currently Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme.Muñoz was...
  
  
• Hernán Neira
  Hernán Neira
  Hernán Neiro is a professor and writer born in Lima. He studied philosophy in Lima Peru. He has published the stories A golpes de hacha y fuego, the novels El sueño inconcluso, El naufragio de la luz, and the essays El espejo de olvido and La ciudad y las palabras. He is also the author of...
  
  
• Honorino Landa
  Honorino Landa
  Honorino Landa Vera was a Chilean football player.He was the youngest player of the Chilean team that won third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Once he received his high-school diploma in 1959, he went to play for the Unión Española team...
  
  
• Horacio Salinas
  Horacio Salinas
  Horacio Salinas is a Chilean guitarist and composer. He is cofounder and musical director of the Chilean group Inti Illimani Historico. He has a huge repertory of compositions that involves folk, andean music, protest music, world music, fusion, Contemporary classical music and many latin american...
  
  
• Huillac Ñusca
  Huillac Ñusca
  Ñusta Huillac was a Kolla leader who rebelled against the Spanish in Chile in 1780. She was nicknamed La Tirana because of her mistreatment of prisoners. She fell in love with Vasco de Almeida, one of her prisoners, and pleaded with her people for him...
  
  
• Humberto Maturana
  Humberto Maturana
  Humberto Maturana is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. He is considered a member of the second wave of cybernetics, known for developing a theory of autopoiesis about the nature of reflexive feedback control in living systems.- Biography :After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de...
  
  
• Humberto Nilo
  Humberto Nilo
  Humberto Nilo Saavedra was the director of the University of Chile school of arts. He set up a mail art exhibit at a museum in Santiago. The exhibit criticized the lack of liberty in Chile. He was dismissed a few months later.-References:...
  
  
• Iván Morovic
  Iván Morovic
  Iván Eduardo Morović Fernández is a Chilean chess player and an International Grandmaster of Croatian origin. He often has been the best Latin American chess player....
  
  
• Javiera Carrera
  Javiera Carrera
  Francisca Xaviera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo , better known as Javiera Carrera, was a member of one of the most aristocratic Chilean families, the Carrera family of Basque origin, who actively participated in the Chilean War of Independence...
  
  
• Javiera Parra
  Javiera Parra
  Javiera Cereceda Orrego , better known as Javiera Parra, is a Chilean musician and singer born in Santiago. She is the lead singer of rock band Javiera y Los Imposibles. A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, known for its many musicians, she is the granddaughter of famous Chilean...
  
  
• Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas
  Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas
  Monsignor Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas was a Chilean priest, Roman Catholic bishop of Santiago, professor, writer and first president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Joaquín Lavín
  Joaquín Lavín
  Joaquín José Lavín Infante is a Chilean politician and economist. He is a member of the Independent Democrat Union party and former mayor of Santiago and Las Condes municipalities of capital Santiago...
  
  
• Jorge Medina Estévez
  Jorge Medina Estévez
  Jorge Arturo Agustín Medina Estévez is a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Cardinal Protodeacon until February 23, 2007, and is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.-Early life and ordination:Medina was born in Santiago in...
  
  
• Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards Valdés is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées El Jefe was a Chilean political figure and author.Born in Santiago of a German mother. He was ideologically influenced by Oswald Spengler...
  
  
• Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt Álvarez was vice-admiral of the Chilean Navy and president of Chile from 1891 to 1896.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Peña Hen
  Jorge Washington Peña Hen was a Chilean composer and an academic at the University of Chile. He was murdered by the Caravan of Death.-Works:...
  
  
• Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia
  Jorge Urrutia Blondel, also known as Jorge Urrutia Blondel, , was a Chilean composer, educator and writer, born in 1905. He has composed ballet music, symphonic poems, and works for piano and for voice...
  
  
• José Antonio Vidaurre
  Jose Antonio Vidaurre
  Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre Garretón was a Chilean military officer who led a failed insurrection in 1837 that culminated in the assassination of minister Diego Portales....
  
  
• José Donoso
  José Donoso
  José Donoso Yáñez was a Chilean writer. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and mainly Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he claimed his exile was also a form of...
  
  
• José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1861 and 1871....
  
  
• José Manuel Balmaceda
  José Manuel Balmaceda
  José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández was the 11th President of Chile from September 18, 1886 to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile...
  
  
• José María Vélaz
  José María Vélaz
  José María Vélaz was a Jesuit priest from Chile who founded Fe y Alegria in 1949. Fe y Alegria is a movement for popular integrated education, with a special mission to provide quality education for the poor. Following a proud tradition of Jesuit education, Vélaz believed that the best way to...
  
  
• José Tohá
  José Tohá
  José Tohá González was a Chilean journalist, lawyer, political figure, and Socialist politician.He was born in Chillán, the son of Spanish immigrant José Tohá Soldavilla and of Brunilda González Monteagudo. After completing his secondary studies in his natal city, he studied law at the ...
  
  
• José de Santiago Concha
  José de Santiago Concha
  José de Santiago Concha y Salvatierra was a Spanish politician and Royal Governor of Chile.He studied in Salamanca, and received the title of Knight of the Order of Calatrava due to his noble lineage...
  
  
• Juan Andrés de Ustariz
  Juan Andrés de Ustariz
  Juan Andrés de Ustariz de Vertizberea was a Royal Governor of Chile during the early 18th century.-Sources:...
  
  
• Juan Emilio Cheyre
  Juan Emilio Cheyre
  Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinoza is a retired Chilean Army General. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 2002 to 2006...
  
  
• Juan Esteban Montero
  Juan Esteban Montero
  Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as president of Chile between 1931 and 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juan Ignacio Molina
  Juan Ignacio Molina
  Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer...
  
  
• Juan Mackenna
  Juan Mackenna
  Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army....
  
  
• Juan Orrego-Salas
  Juan Orrego-Salas
  Juan Antonio Orrego Salas is a Chilean composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.He was a student of Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland in the United States, and later he settled in that country in the early 1960s to work at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Latin...
  
  
• Juan Somavía
  Juan Somavía
  Juan Somavía is the current Director-General of the International Labour Organization .He was elected to serve as the ninth Director-General of the ILO by the Governing Body on 23 March 1998.-Term as Director-General:...
  
  
• Julio Canessa
  Julio Canessa
  Lieutenant General Julio Canessa Roberts is a Chilean military and political figure. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the Army. He was also a designated Senator between 1998 and 2006....
  
  
• Jéssica Eterovic
  Jéssica Eterovic
  Jéssica Miroslava Eterovic Pozas was Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1993.She is married to television producer Eduardo Dominguez.Jessica Miroslava is of Croat origin.-References:*...
  
  
• Klaus von Storch
  Klaus von Storch
  Klaus Bernhard von Storch Krüger is a Chilean aerospace engineer and astronaut trainee.Von Storch was born in Osorno, in southern Chile. In 1992, he was selected by the Chilean Space Agency for the preparation for the flight on the Space Shuttle...
  
  
• Laura Rodríguez
  Laura Rodríguez
  Laura Fiora Rodríguez Riccomini was a Chilean political activist from the Humanist Party. In 1989 she became the world's first Humanist to win a seat in parliament, after claiming victory as part of the Concertación coalition....
  
  
• Lorenzo de Arrau
  Lorenzo de Arrau
  Lorenzo de Arrau belonged to the family of the famous Arrau painters and artists from Barcelona at the century.He was a Spanish engineer sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain....
  
  
• Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet
  Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet
  María Lucía Hiriart Rodríguez , also known as Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet, is the widow of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet...
  
  
• Luis Altamirano
  Luis Altamirano
  Division General Luis Altamirano Talavera 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 Carrera
  Luis Carrera
  Colonel Luis Florentino Juan Manuel Silvestre de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo was a Chilean military officer who fought in the Chilean War of Independence. Together with his brothers José Miguel and Juan José, they were some of most important leaders of Chilean struggle for independence...
  
  
• Luis Musrri
  Luis Musrri
  Luis Eduardo Musrri Saravia is a retired Chilean football player.He played mostly for Universidad de Chile as well as one season with Yunnan Hongta ....
  
  
• Luisa Durán
• Manfred Max-Neef
  Manfred Max-Neef
  Artur Manfred Max Neef is a Chilean economist and environmentalist mainly known for his human development model based on Fundamental human needs. He is of German descent...
  
  
• Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President .-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Bulnes
  Manuel Bulnes
  -Sources:* Juan B. Alberdi, Biografia de general Bulnes...
  
  
• Manuel Montt
  Manuel Montt
  Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar. He was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Neira
• Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza Reyes was an athlete from Chile, who won the country's first ever Olympic medal by finishing second at the Men's Marathon in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He clocked 2 hours, 33 minutes and 23 seconds.-References:*...
  
  
• Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
  
  
• Mario Mutis
  Mario Mutis
  Mario Mutis is the bass player in the Chilean progressive rock-folk band Los Jaivas.- References :...
  
  
• Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...
  
  
• Matilde Urrutia
  Matilde Urrutia
  Matilde Urrutia was the third wife of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, from 1966 until his death in 1973. They met in Santiago in 1946. Urrutia was the inspiration behind Neruda's work 100 Love Sonnets which includes a beautiful dedication to her...
  
  
• Mauricio Aros
  Mauricio Aros
  Mauricio Fernando Aros Bahamóndez is a Chilean football player, who currently plays midfielder for Unión Temuco.-Career:He began his career in the youth squads of Deportes Concepción and debuted as a professional in 1995...
  
  
• Miguel Krasnoff
• Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Mirosevic
  Milovan Petar Mirošević Albornoz is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for the Chilean Primera División side Universidad Católica as an Attacking midfielder.-Club carrer:...
  
  
• Máximo Carvajal
  Máximo Carvajal
  Máximo Gorky Carvajal Belmar was a Chilean comic book artist.Carvajal was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He studied fine arts in Viña del Mar, later moving to Santiago to study applied arts. Carvajal worked in Chilean comics for nearly 50 years, creating the characters Dr. Mortis and Black...
  
  
• Nicanor Parra
  Nicanor Parra
  Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile, who has been considered to be a popular poet in Chile with enormous influence and popularity in Latin America, and also considered one of the most important poets of the Spanish language literature...
  
  
• Nicolás Córdova
  Nicolás Córdova
  Nicolas Andrés Córdova San Cristóbal is a Chilean footballer. A midfielder, who currently plays with Brescia.-Career:...
  
  
• Niklos Maureira
• Nina (poet)
• Osvaldo Andrade
  Osvaldo Andrade
  Osvaldo Andrade Lara is a Chilean Socialist politician. After studying law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Andrade joined the Socialist Party in 1968. He served as director of the Young Socialists. Following the Chilean coup of 1973, he was detained at the Estadio Nacional and at...
  
  
• Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras is a well-known Chilean-Argentine film actor.-Life and work:Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter...
  
  
• Patricio Galaz
  Patricio Galaz
  Patricio Sebastián Galaz Sepúlveda is a Chilean football forward. He last played for Ñublense in the Chilean Primera División....
  
  
• Paul Delano
  Paul Delano
  Captain Paul Delano , born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was a sea captain and a member of the prominent American Delano family. He moved to Chile as Captain of the Curiacio where he arrived in June 22, 1819 and became an important part of that country's First Chilean Navy Squadron...
  
  
• Paulina Mladinic
  Paulina Mladinic
  Paulina Mladinic Zorzano was the Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1997. Paulina is of Croatian and Basque descent.-References:*...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure. A member of the Radical Party, he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was triumphally elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941...
  
  
• Pedro Araya (footballer)
  Pedro Araya (footballer)
  Pedro Damián Araya Toro is a retired football player from Chile.-Career:Toro represented the Chilean national team at the 1966 World Cup, and played all three matches for the squad...
  
  
• Pedro Espinoza Bravo
• Pedro Lastra
  Pedro Lastra
  Pedro Lastra is a Chilean poet and essayist.Lastra is a graduate of the University of Chile. From 1966-73, he was the literary advisor to the University Press and director of the Letras de América collection. In 1972, he moved to the United States and taught at Stony Brook University in the...
  
  
• Pedro Montt
  Pedro Montt
  Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910...
  
  
• Pedro Opazo
  Pedro Opazo
  Pedro Opazo Letelier was a Chilean politician and provisional vice president of Chile in 1931.He was born in Talca, the son of Ursicino Opazo and Margarita Letelier. He completed his studies in his native city, and then attended the Universidad de Chile, where he became a physician...
  
  
• Ramón Barros Luco
  Ramón Barros Luco
  Ramón Barros Luco was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915.Barros Luco was born in 1835 in Santiago, Barros Luco was son of Ramón Luis Barros Fernández and Dolores Luco Fernández de Leiva. He graduated from Law School in 1858...
  
  
• Raúl Silva Henríquez
• Ricardo Acuña
  Ricardo Acuña
  Ricardo Acuña is a former tennis player from Chile, who won three doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on March 17, 1986, when he reached 47th in the world....
  
  
• Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas Trujillo is a Chilean footballer. He recently played for Colo-Colo in the Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División....
  
  
• Roberto Castillo
  Roberto Castillo
  Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean author. who currently teaches Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA...
  
  
• Roberto Souper
  Roberto Souper
  Lt. Colonel Roberto Federico Souper Onfray was a Chilean military officer who launched an unsuccessful coup d'état against the regime of Salvador Allende, surrounding the presidential palace with a tank regiment....
  
  
• Rodolfo Amando Philippi
  Rodolfo Amando Philippi
  Rodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
  
  
• Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada
  Rodolfo Parada Lillo is a Chilean musician, composer, engineer and anthropologist. Parada joined Quilapayún in 1968, which made the group into a sextet - the formation which recorded the “Cantata Santa María de Iquique. Upon joining the group he became the major solo voice of the ensemble Rodolfo...
  
  
• Rodolfo Stange
  Rodolfo Stange
  General Rodolfo Stange Oelckers is a Chilean politician and former senator. He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the police force . He was elected Senator in 1998, finishing his term in 2005.Stange was born in Puerto Montt, in the south of Chile...
  
  
• Rodrigo Barrera
• Rolando Toro Araneda
• Santiago Pavlović
• Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental Igualt is a retired Chilean-Israeli professional football player.On the club level, Rozental has played for Universidad Católica , Colo-Colo , and Unión Española in his native Chile, Rangers in Scotland, where he became the first player from South America to play for the...
  
  
• Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Livingstone
  Sergio Roberto "Sapo" Livingstone Pohlhammer , affectionally called Sapito Livingstone, is a former Chilean goalkeeper, considered the first great footballer in the country's history, who later became a well regarded journalist. He was called El Sapo for his typical posture in the goal mouth...
  
  
• Sergio Valech
  Sergio Valech
  Sergio Valech Aldunate was the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, Chile. He was the head of the eight-member National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture panel in Chile, which investigated instances of torture that occurred...
  
  
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• Themo Lobos
  Themo Lobos
  Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre , better known as Themo Lobos, is a Chilean comic strip, comic book writer and artist. He is the creator of characters such as Máximo Chambónez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, but his most famous work is Mampato, a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo...
  
  
• Tito Beltrán
  Tito Beltrán
  Ernesto Beltrán Aguilar better known as Tito Beltrán , is a Chilean-Swedish tenor. In October 2008, an appellate court in Sweden sentenced Beltrán to 2.5 years in prison for rape and sexual molestation of an underage child...
  
  
• Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...
  
  
• Tomás Marín de Poveda
  Tomás Marín de Poveda
  Tomás López Marín y González de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tonka Tomicic
  Tonka Tomicic
  Tonka Tomicic Petric is a Chilean model and television presenter of Croat origin.-Career:She first came to public attention as the Chilean representative to the 1995 Miss World pageant. Soon after she was invited to the program Pase lo que Pase of TVN as a fashion commentator...
  
  
• Violeta Parra
  Violeta Parra
  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...
  
  
• Virgilio Paz Romero
  Virgilio Paz Romero
  Virgilio Paz Romero is an anti-Castro Cuban exile, involved in various anti-communist acts. He has been accused of taking part in Operation Condor, carrying out Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's murder in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Vittorio Corbo
  Vittorio Corbo
  Vittorio Corbo Lioi is a former Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, who held the post since May 2003 until December 2007.Corbo studied economics at the University of Chile in 1967 and has a PhD in economics from MIT which he gained in 1971. He taught at Concordia University in Canada between...
  
  
• Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva
  Víctor Domingo Silva Endeiza was a Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer. Victor Silva was of Basque descent by mother's side....
  
  
• Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría
  Víctor Olea Alegría was a member of Chile’s Partido Socialista.Olea lived in Santiago, Chile. He was detained by “security agents” on 11 September 1974, and became one of the "detenidos desaparecidos". Manuel Contreras was convicted in 2002 for his abduction.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ángel Parra
  Ángel Parra
  Ángel Cereceda Parra is a Chilean singer and songwriter, son of Violeta Parra, notable Chilean folklorist and brother of Isabel Parra. He travels abroad helping to maintain the Nueva Canción tradition in Chilean expatriate communities in Europe, North America, and Australia. His son -also named...
  
  

Politics of Chile

• Abortion in Chile
  Abortion in Chile
  Abortion in Chile is illegal without exception. The Chilean abortion law is considered one of the most restrictive in the world.-Legal background:...
  
  
• Chile under Allende
  Chile under Allende
  Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government; he was the first Marxist ever to be elected to the national presidency of a democracy...
  
  
• Chile under Pinochet
  Chile under Pinochet
  Chile was ruled by a military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 when Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'etat until 1990 when the Chilean transition to democracy began. The authoritarian military government was characterized by systematic suppression of political parties and...
  
  
• Chilean political scandals
  Chilean political scandals
  A political scandal is a kind of political corruption that is exposed and becomes a scandal, in which politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices...
  
  
• Electoral division of Chile
  Electoral division of Chile
  To elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate, Chile is divided into several electoral divisions, namely electoral districts and senatorial constituencies.-Electoral districts:...
  
  
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
  Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
  The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front , also known as El Frente Patriótico, or simply El Frente, is a left-wing urban guerrilla movement in Chile, named for a figure in Chile's independence movement, Manuel Rodríguez. The group was founded on September 14, 1983 as an armed resistance against the...
  
  
• List of Government Juntas of Chile
• Liberalism and radicalism in Chile
  Liberalism and radicalism in Chile
  This article gives an overview of liberal and radical parties in Chile. It is limited to liberal and radical parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme...
  
  
• Chilean nationalization of copper
  Chilean nationalization of copper
  The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry commonly described as the Chilenización del cobre or "Chileanisation of copper," was the progressive process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the...
  
  
• Chilean pharmaceutical policy
  Chilean pharmaceutical policy
  The Chilean Pharmaceutical Policy was an attempt in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce a rational national pharmaceuticals policy. Chile was perhaps the first country in the world to introduce the concept of a limited number of essential drugs....
  
  
• Politics of Chile
  Politics of Chile
  The politics of Chile takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Chile is both head of state and head of government, and of a formal multi-party system that in practice behaves like a two-party one, due to binominalism. Executive power...
  
  
• President of Chile
  President of Chile
  The President of the Republic of Chile is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Chile. The President is responsible of the government and state administration...
  
  

Political parties in Chile

• List of political parties in Chile
• Alliance for Chile
  Alliance for Chile
  The Alliance for Chile , also known simply as The Alliance , was a coalition of right-wing Chilean political parties.The Alliance was replaced in 2009 by the Coalition for Change....
  
  
• Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)
  Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)
  Chilean Communist Party is a communist group, originating from the pro-Albanian tradition, in Chile...
  
  
• Christian Democrat Party of Chile
  Christian Democrat Party of Chile
  The Christian Democratic Party is a political party in Chile and governs as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. In the 2009 election it won 19 congress seats and 9 senate seats....
  
  
• Christian Left Party (Chile)
  Christian Left Party (Chile)
  The Christian Left Party of Chile is a Chilean left-wing political party. Founded in 1971, in its early days it was suppressed by the Pinochet dictatorship...
  
  
• Coalition of Parties for Democracy
  Coalition of Parties for Democracy
  The Concert of Parties for Democracy , more often known as the Concertación, is a coalition of center-left political parties in Chile, founded in 1988...
  
  
• Communist Party of Chile
  Communist Party of Chile
  The Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...
  
  
• Green Party of Chile
  Green Party of Chile
  The Ecologist Party is a Chilean political party and one of South America's members of the global green movement.The Ecologist Party was formed in 2002 and legalized officially on 21 January 2008 in the Electoral Service....
  
  
• Humanist Party (Chile)
  Humanist Party (Chile)
  The Humanist Party is a progressive left-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1984.In December 1990, Laura Rodríguez became the first elected representative of any Humanist Party in the world after winning a seat as part of the Concertación coalition, after Augusto Pinochet handed over...
  
  
• Independent Democrat Union
  Independent Democrat Union
  The Independent Democrat Union is a Chilean right-wing, conservative political party, founded in 1983. Its main inspirer was the lawyer, politician and law professor Jaime Guzmán, a former senator of the Republic of Chile from 1990 until his assassination on April 1, 1991.Its ideological origins...
  
  
• Juntos Podemos Más
  Juntos Podemos Más
  Juntos Podemos Más por Chile is a political coalition created in 2003, consisting of the Communist Party of Chile, the Humanist Party, the Christian Left Party of Chile, and several other smaller left-wing organizations.The...
  
  
• National Alliance of Independents
  National Alliance of Independents
  National Alliance of Independents is a political party in Chile. It operates in only the regions IX, X and, XII in the southern parts of the country....
  
  
• National Party (Chile)
  National Party (Chile)
  There have been two "National Parties" in the history of Chile:*The National Party of 1857-1933, created by the supporters of President Manuel Montt and Interior Minister Antonio Varas, also known as Montt-varista Party....
  
  
• National Renewal (Chile)
  National Renewal (Chile)
  National Renewal , is a liberal conservative political party belonging to the Chilean right-wing political coalition Coalition for Change in conjunction with the Independent Democratic Union and the Chile First movement...
  
  
• National Socialist Movement of Chile
  National Socialist Movement of Chile
  Movimiento Nacional Socialista de Chile was a political movement in Chile, during the Presidential Republic Era, which initially supported the ideas of Adolf Hitler, although it later moved towards a more indigenous form of fascism....
  
  
• Party for Democracy
  Party for Democracy
  The Party for Democracy is a political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation. It was founded in December 1987 by Ricardo Lagos, who aimed at forming a legal social democratic party . The party continued to function after the defeat of Pinochet...
  
  
• People's Revolutionary Party (Chile)
  People's Revolutionary Party (Chile)
  People's Revolutionary Party is a small political party in Chile. The group has its origins in the Revolutionary Left Movement ....
  
  
• Popular Unity
  Popular Unity
  Unidad Popular was a coalition of left wing, socialist and communist political parties in Chile that stood behind the successful candidacy of Salvador Allende for the 1970 Chilean presidential election....
  
  
• Progressive Union of the Centrist Center
  Progressive Union of the Centrist Center
  The Progressive Union of the Centrist Center was a small center-right political party in Chile....
  
  
• Radical Democracy Party (Chile)
• Regionalist Action Party of Chile
  Regionalist Action Party of Chile
  Regionalist Action Party of Chile , a political party in Chile. Operates in only the regions I, II and III in the northern parts of the country. In the 2004 municipal elections the party presented 13 candidates and got 1,199 votes...
  
  
• Revolutionary Communist Party (Chile)
  Revolutionary Communist Party (Chile)
  Revolutionary Communist Party was a pro-China communist party in Chile founded in 1966. The founders of PCR belonged to ESPARTACO , a group that had been expelled from the Communist Party of Chile , and Revolutionary Communist Union, another splinter group of PCCh...
  
  
• Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)
  Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)
  Revolutionary Left Movement is a Chilean political party and former left-wing guerrilla organization founded on October 12, 1965...
  
  
• Social Democrat Radical Party
  Social Democrat Radical Party
  The Social Democratic Radical Party is a social democratic party in Chile.The party is a member of Socialist International....
  
  
• Socialist Party of Chile
  Socialist Party of Chile
  The Socialist Party of Chile is a political party, that is part of the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. Its historical leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, who was deposed by General Pinochet in 1973...
  
  

Chilean politicians

• Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, and then again in 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938....
  
  
• Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970...
  
  
• Isabel Allende Bussi
  Isabel Allende Bussi
  María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean Socialist politician and the daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende, and his wife, Hortensia Bussi...
  
  
• Andrés Pascal Allende
  Andrés Pascal Allende
  Andrés Pascal Allende is a Chilean Marxist revolutionary and nephew of former President Salvador Allende. He is of Basque and Belgian descent.He was born in Santiago, the son of Gastón Pascal Lyon and of Laura Allende Gossens...
  
  
• Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
  
  
• Clodomiro Almeyda
  Clodomiro Almeyda
  Clodomiro Almeyda Medina was a Chilean politician. A leading member of the Socialist Party, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 1970 to 1973 during the Presidency of Salvador Allende....
  
  
• Carlos Altamirano
  Carlos Altamirano
  Carlos Altamirano Orrego is a lawyer and one of the most influential politicians of Chilean socialism. He was the general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party between 1971 and 1979. Before that, he was deputy from 1961 to 1965 and senator from 1965 to 1973...
  
  
• Soledad Alvear
  Soledad Alvear
  María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela , is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations. She was president of the Christian Democrat Party from 2006-2008...
  
  
• Osvaldo Andrade
  Osvaldo Andrade
  Osvaldo Andrade Lara is a Chilean Socialist politician. After studying law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Andrade joined the Socialist Party in 1968. He served as director of the Young Socialists. Following the Chilean coup of 1973, he was detained at the Estadio Nacional and at...
  
  
• Patricio Aylwin
  Patricio Aylwin
  Patricio Aylwin Azócar was the first president of Chile after its return to democratic rule in 1990, following the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.- Early life :...
  
  
• Michelle Bachelet
  Michelle Bachelet
  Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Social Democrat politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010. She was the first woman president of her country...
  
  
• Abdón Cifuentes
  Abdón Cifuentes
  Abdón Cifuentes Espinoza was one of Chile's most significant Catholic politicians in the nineteenth century.He was the son of José Maria Cifuentes Olivares and Paula Espinoza Pinto in San Felipe, Chile. He married Luz Gómez, with whom he fathered 13 children...
  
  
• Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza , was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.-Early life:...
  
  
• Miguel Enríquez Espinosa
• Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
  Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
  Federico Errázuriz Echaurren was a Chilean political figure. Born in Santiago, he served as President of Chile between 1896 and his death in 1901. Federico Errázuriz was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Francisco Javier Errázuriz Talavera
• Fernando Flores
  Fernando Flores
  Carlos Fernando Flores Labra is a Chilean engineer, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of president Salvador Allende and was senator for the Arica and Parinacota and Tarapacá regions between 2001 and 2009...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación...
  
  
• Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées
  Jorge González von Marées El Jefe was a Chilean political figure and author.Born in Santiago of a German mother. He was ideologically influenced by Oswald Spengler...
  
  
• Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove
  Marmaduque Grove Vallejo was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...
  
  
• Claudio Huepe
  Claudio Huepe
  Claudio Huepe García was a Chilean politician, engineer and economist, member of the Christian Democrat party, who occupied several government and political positions. During his career, he was the provincial governor of Arauco, a member of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, a government minister,...
  
  
• Aucán Huilcamán
  Aucán Huilcamán
  Aucán Huilcamán Paillama , leader of the indigenous Mapuche organization Consejo de Todas las Tierras . He intended to run for president in 2005 election, but his candidacy was not accepted as he was not able to collect enough official votes validated by public notaries.-References:...
  
  
• José Miguel Insulza
  José Miguel Insulza
  José Miguel Insulza Salinas is a Chilean politician and statesman. He is currently the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. He is nicknamed El Panzer, for his tank-like drive and reputation due to his ability to take political heat with little apparent damage...
  
  
• Carlos Keller
  Carlos Keller
  Carlos Keller Rueff was a far-right Chilean writer, historian, and political figure.-Early years:Keller was born in Concepción, Chile, into a family of German origin and completed his education at universities in Germany...
  
  
• Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...
  
  
• Joaquín Lavín
  Joaquín Lavín
  Joaquín José Lavín Infante is a Chilean politician and economist. He is a member of the Independent Democrat Union party and former mayor of Santiago and Las Condes municipalities of capital Santiago...
  
  
• Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton
  Bernardo Leighton Guzmán was a Chilean Christian Democrat who was targeted by Operation Condor.In 1937, President Arturo Alessandri Palma appointed him as Employment minister....
  
  
• Orlando Letelier
  Orlando Letelier
  Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Socialist President Salvador Allende...
  
  
• Carlos Lorca
  Carlos Lorca
  Carlos Enrique Lorca Tobar , was a Chilean physician, president of the Students' Federation and then deputy for Valdivia province and leader of the Socialist Party of Chile....
  
  
• Gladys Marín
  Gladys Marín
  Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile and then president of the PCCh until her death...
  
  
• Manfred Max-Neef
  Manfred Max-Neef
  Artur Manfred Max Neef is a Chilean economist and environmentalist mainly known for his human development model based on Fundamental human needs. He is of German descent...
  
  
• Heraldo Muñoz
  Heraldo Muñoz
  Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela is a Chilean politician and diplomat, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, and currently Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme.Muñoz was...
  
  
• Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel Urrutia was president of Chile in 1932.He studied law at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and in 1897 received his law degree. During the Chilean Civil War in 1891, Oyanedel fought for the Congressional army.In 1927, he was appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Chile ,...
  
  
• José Piñera
  José Piñera
  José Piñera is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems" as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper"...
  
  
• Sebastián Piñera
  Sebastián Piñera
  Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique is a Chilean businessman and politician. He was elected President of Chile in January 2010, taking office in March 2010.- Education :...
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Diego Portales
  Diego Portales
  Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the...
  
  
• Carlos Prats
  Carlos Prats
  General Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army...
  
  
• Laura Rodríguez
  Laura Rodríguez
  Laura Fiora Rodríguez Riccomini was a Chilean political activist from the Humanist Party. In 1989 she became the world's first Humanist to win a seat in parliament, after claiming victory as part of the Concertación coalition....
  
  
• Sonia Tschorne
  Sonia Tschorne
  Sonia Tschorne Berestesky is an architect and prominent Chilean politician.She studied architecture at the University of Chile, graduating in 1982...
  
  
• Volodia Teitelboim
  Volodia Teitelboim
  Volodia Valentín Teitelboim Volosky was a Chilean lawyer, politician and author.Born in Chillán to Jewish immigrants , Teitelboim was interested in literature from an early age...
  
  
• Carolina Tohá
  Carolina Tohá
  Carolina Montserrat Tohá Morales is a Chilean politician from the Party for Democracy . She is the daughter of the late Socialist politician, Vice President, and minister of Salvador Allende, José Tohá....
  
  
• José Tohá
  José Tohá
  José Tohá González was a Chilean journalist, lawyer, political figure, and Socialist politician.He was born in Chillán, the son of Spanish immigrant José Tohá Soldavilla and of Brunilda González Monteagudo. After completing his secondary studies in his natal city, he studied law at the ...
  
  
• Radomiro Tomic
  Radomiro Tomic
  Radomiro Tomic Romero was a Chilean politician of Croatian origin. He was one of the most prominent leaders of that country's Christian Democrat Party....
  
  
• Adolfo Zaldívar
  Adolfo Zaldívar
  Miguel Adolfo Gerardo Zaldívar Larraín is a Chilean politician and lawyer. He is currently senator for Aisén and since March 2008 he has been President of the Senate. He was a historic member of the Christian Democratic Party until his expulsion in December 2007.Zaldívar is married to María Alicia...
  
  
• Andrés Zaldívar
  Andrés Zaldívar
  José Andrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín, popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar , is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.-Early years:...
  
  

Presidents of Chile

• President of Chile
  President of Chile
  The President of the Republic of Chile is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Chile. The President is responsible of the government and state administration...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure. A member of the Radical Party, he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was triumphally elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941...
  
  
• Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Alessandri
  Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served twice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, and then again in 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938....
  
  
• Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri
  Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970...
  
  
• Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
  
  
• Patricio Aylwin
  Patricio Aylwin
  Patricio Aylwin Azócar was the first president of Chile after its return to democratic rule in 1990, following the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.- Early life :...
  
  
• Michelle Bachelet
  Michelle Bachelet
  Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Social Democrat politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010. She was the first woman president of her country...
  
  
• José Manuel Balmaceda
  José Manuel Balmaceda
  José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández was the 11th President of Chile from September 18, 1886 to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile...
  
  
• Ramón Barros Luco
  Ramón Barros Luco
  Ramón Barros Luco was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915.Barros Luco was born in 1835 in Santiago, Barros Luco was son of Ramón Luis Barros Fernández and Dolores Luco Fernández de Leiva. He graduated from Law School in 1858...
  
  
• Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel Blanco Encalada
  Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President .-Biography:...
  
  
• Manuel Bulnes
  Manuel Bulnes
  -Sources:* Juan B. Alberdi, Biografia de general Bulnes...
  
  
• Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Dávila
  Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza , was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.-Early life:...
  
  
• Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
  Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
  Federico Errázuriz Echaurren was a Chilean political figure. Born in Santiago, he served as President of Chile between 1896 and his death in 1901. Federico Errázuriz was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
  Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
  Federico Marcos del Rosario Errázuriz Zañartu was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1871 and 1876. He was born in Santiago in 1825 and died there in 1877. Errázuriz was of Basque descent....
  
  
• Fernando Errázuriz
  Fernando Errázuriz
  Fernando de Errázuriz y Martínez de Aldunate , also known as Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, was a Chilean political figure. He served as provisional president of Chile in 1831. He was of Basque descent....
  
  
• Agustín Eyzaguirre
• Emiliano Figueroa
  Emiliano Figueroa
  Emiliano Figueroa Larraín was President of Chile from December 23, 1925 until his resignation on May 10, 1927. He also served as Acting president for a few months on 1910.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva
  Eduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...
  
  
• Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación...
  
  
• Ramón Freire
• Gabriel González Videla
  Gabriel González Videla
  Gabriel González Videla was a Chilean politician. He was a deputy and senator in the Chilean Congress and was President of Chile from 1946 to 1952...
  
  
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
  General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as dictator between 1927 and 1931 and as constitutional President from 1952 to 1958.- The coups of 1924 and 1925 :...
  
  
• Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...
  
  
• Juan Esteban Montero
  Juan Esteban Montero
  Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as president of Chile between 1931 and 1932.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt
  Jorge Montt Álvarez was vice-admiral of the Chilean Navy and president of Chile from 1891 to 1896.-Early life:...
  
  
• Manuel Montt
  Manuel Montt
  Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar. He was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pedro Montt
  Pedro Montt
  Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910...
  
  
• Pedro Opazo
  Pedro Opazo
  Pedro Opazo Letelier was a Chilean politician and provisional vice president of Chile in 1931.He was born in Talca, the son of Ursicino Opazo and Margarita Letelier. He completed his studies in his native city, and then attended the Universidad de Chile, where he became a physician...
  
  
• José Tomás Ovalle
  José Tomás Ovalle
  José Tomás Ovalle y Bezanilla was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as provisional president of Chile.-Early life:...
  
  
• Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel
  Abraham Oyanedel Urrutia was president of Chile in 1932.He studied law at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and in 1897 received his law degree. During the Chilean Civil War in 1891, Oyanedel fought for the Congressional army.In 1927, he was appointed a member of the Supreme Court of Chile ,...
  
  
• José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez
  José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1861 and 1871....
  
  
• Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto Pinochet
  Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
  
  
• Aníbal Pinto
  Aníbal Pinto
  Aníbal Pinto Garmendia was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1876 and 1881.-Early life:...
  
  
• Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto
  Francisco Antonio Pinto y Díaz de la Puente was a Chilean political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1827 and 1829.-Early life:He was born in Santiago, the son of Joaquín Pinto and Mercedes Díaz de la Puente...
  
  
• José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto
  José Joaquín Prieto Vial was a Chilean military and political figure. He was twice President of Chile between 1831 and 1841. José Joaquín Prieto was of Spanish and Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  
• Germán Riesco
  Germán Riesco
  Germán Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juan Antonio Ríos
  Juan Antonio Ríos
  Juan Antonio Ríos Morales was a Chilean political figure, and President of Chile from 1942 to 1946, during the height of World War II. He died in office.-Early life:...
  
  
• Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
  Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
  Francisco Antonio Pascual de la Ascensión Ruiz de Tagle y Portales was a Chilean political figure. In 1830, he was briefly president of the country. Provisional President of Republic of Chile elected by Congress.-Biography:...
  
  
• Juan Luis Sanfuentes
  Juan Luis Sanfuentes
  Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui was President of Chile between 1915 and 1920. He was son of writer and politician Salvador Sanfuentes Torres and Matilde Andonaegui....
  
  
• Domingo Santa María
  Domingo Santa María
  Domingo Santa María González was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1881 and 1886.-Early life:...
  
  
• Francisco Ramón Vicuña
  Francisco Ramón Vicuña
  Francisco Ramón de Vicuña Larraín was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as acting President of Chile in 1829. Francisco Vicuña was of Basque descent.-Early life:...
  
  

Chilean communists

• Luis Corvalán
  Luis Corvalán
  Luis Alberto Corvalán Lepe was a Chilean politician. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile ....
  
  
• Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
  
  
• Gladys Marín
  Gladys Marín
  Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile and then president of the PCCh until her death...
  
  
• Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
  
  
• Violeta Parra
  Violeta Parra
  Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...
  
  

Supreme Directors of Chile

• José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera
  José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja...
  
  
• Ramón Freire
• Francisco de la Lastra
  Francisco de la Lastra
  General Francisco de la Lastra y de la Sotta was a Chilean military officer and the first Supreme Director of Chile .-Biography:...
  
  
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  

Provinces of Chile

• Provinces of Chile
  Provinces of Chile
  A province is the second largest administrative division in Chile, after a region. Each region is divided into provinces. There are 54 provinces in total....
  
  
• Antártica Chilena Province
  Antártica Chilena Province
  Antártica Chilena Province is the southernmost and one of four provinces in Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region . The capital is Puerto Williams...
  
  
• Antofagasta Province
  Antofagasta Province
  Antofagasta Province is one of three provinces in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta . The capital is the port city of Antofagasta. Located within the Atacama Desert, it borders the El Loa and Tocopilla provinces to the north, Bolivia to the west and the Atacama Region to the...
  
  
• Arica Province
  Arica Province
  Arica Province is one of two provinces of Chile's northernmost and most recently created region, Arica and Parinacota . The province is bordered on the north by the Tacna Province of Peru, on the south by the Tamarugal Province in the Tarapacá Region, on the east the Parinacota Province and on the...
  
  
• Biobío Province
  Biobío Province
  Biobío Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . Its capital is Los Ángeles . It is bounded on the north, west and south by the provinces of Concepción, Arauco and Malleco, respectively, and on the east by Argentina. It has an area of of well-wooded and mountainous...
  
  
• Cauquenes Province
  Cauquenes Province
  Cauquenes Province is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . The provincial capital is the city of Cauquenes.-Geography and demography:The provincial capital, Cauquenes, lies approximately southwest of Santiago...
  
  
• Cautín Province
  Cautín Province
  Cautín Province is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía , bounded on the north by Arauco and Malleco provinces, on the east by Argentina, on the south by Valdivia Province, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its population at the 2002 census was of 667,920. The most...
  
  
• Chacabuco Province
  Chacabuco Province
  Chacabuco Province is one of six provinces of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in central Chile. It is located north of the Province of Santiago, which is entirely urbanized and part of the Santiago connurbation...
  
  
• Chiloé Province
  Chiloé Province
  Chiloé Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . It encompasses all of Chiloé Archipelago with the exception of the Desertores Islands. The province spans a surface area of...
  
  
• Colchagua Province
  Colchagua Province
  Colchagua Province is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins . Its capital is San Fernando. It is bordered on the north by Cachapoal Province, on the east by the Argentine Republic, on the south by Curicó Province, and on the west by Cardenal Caro Province.-Geography and...
  
  
• Cordillera Province, Chile
  Cordillera Province, Chile
  Cordillera Province is one of six provinces in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. Its topography includes a small area of Chile's central valley, glaciers, rivers, volcanoes, and the Andes range, which forms the border with Argentina...
  
  
• Curicó Province
  Curicó Province
  Curicó Province is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . Its capital is the city of Curicó. It lies between the provinces of Colchagua and Talca and extends from the Pacific to the Argentine frontier, spanning an area of...
  
  
• Iquique Province
  Iquique Province
  Iquique Province is one of two provinces in the northern Chilean region of Tarapacá . Its capital is the port city of Iquique.-History:Until October 2007, the Province of Iquique was composed of 7 communes: High Hospice, Camina, Colchane, Huara, Iquique, Pica and Pozo Almonte, but since then, with...
  
  
• Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino
  Isla Navarino is a Chilean island located strategically between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and Cape Horn, to the south. The island forms part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, the southernmost commune in Chile and in the world, belonging to Antártica Chilena Province in the XII...
  
  
• Linares Province
  Linares Province
  Linares is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . The provincial capital and most populous center is the city of Linares.-Administration:...
  
  
• Llanquihue Province
  Llanquihue Province
  Llanquihue Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Los Lagos . Its capital is Puerto Montt. Chile's second largest lake, Lake Llanquihue, is located in the province as well as four volcanoes: Osorno, Calbuco, Puntiagudo and Cerro Tronador....
  
  
• Maipo Province
  Maipo Province
  Maipo Province is one of six provinces in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. Its capital is San Bernardo.-Administration:As a province, Maipo is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.-Communes:The...
  
  
• Ñuble Province
  Ñuble Province
  Ñuble Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . It spans an area of and is administratively constituted by 21 communes. It has a population of 441,604 inhabitants. Its capital is the city of Chillán.-History:...
  
  
• Osorno Province
  Osorno Province
  Osorno Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . The province has an area of and a population of 221,509 distributed across seven communes . The provincial capital is the city of Osorno....
  
  
• Palena Province
  Palena Province
  Palena Province is one of the four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Los Lagos . Due to the eruption of Chaitén Volcano and the subsequent destruction of Chaitén, Futaleufú is since March 2009 the new capital of Palena Province. The private Pumalín Park is located in the province as is...
  
  
• Parinacota Province
  Parinacota Province
  Parinacota Province is one of two provinces of the Chilean region of Arica and Parinacota . Its capital is Putre. It is named after the Parinacota Volcano.-History:...
  
  
• Province of Los Andes, Chile
  Province of Los Andes, Chile
  Los Andes Province is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso . The city of Los Andes is the capital of the province.-Administration:...
  
  
• Santiago Province (Chile)
  Santiago Province (Chile)
  Santiago Province is one of the six provinces of the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. It encompasses the majority of the population of that region, including 31 of the 36 communities of Greater Santiago. The province spans ....
  
  
• Talca Province
  Talca Province
  Talca Province is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule . Its capital is the city of Talca.-Administration:As a province, Talca is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.-Communes:The province...
  
  
• Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
  Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
  Tierra del Fuego Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena . It includes the Chilean part of the main island of Tierra del Fuego. There is also an Argentine province of the same name, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina...
  
  
• Última Esperanza Province
  Última Esperanza Province
  Última Esperanza Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena . The capital is Puerto Natales...
  
  
• Valdivia Province
  Valdivia Province
  Valdivia Province is one of two provinces of the southern Chilean region of Los Ríos . The provincial capital is Valdivia. Located in the province are two important rivers, the Calle-Calle / Valdivia River and the Cruces River.It is part of Northern Patagonia and its wild virgin forest embrace the...
  
  

Última Esperanza Province

• Última Esperanza Province
  Última Esperanza Province
  Última Esperanza Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena . The capital is Puerto Natales...
  
  
• Cerro Chaltén
  Cerro Chaltén
  Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain located near El Chaltén village, in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile...
  
  
• Cerro Torre
  Cerro Torre
  Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile, west of Cerro Chalten . The peak is the highest in a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger , Punta Herron, and Cerro...
  
  
• Cordillera del Paine
  Cordillera del Paine
  The Cordillera del Paine is a small but spectacular mountain group in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. It is located north of Punta Arenas, and about 1,960 km south of the Chilean capital Santiago. It belongs to the Commune of Torres del Paine in Última Esperanza Province...
  
  
• Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region
  Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region
  The XII Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions...
  
  
• Puerto Natales
  Puerto Natales
  Puerto Natales is a city in Chilean Patagonia. Puerto Natales is the capital of both the commune of Natales and the province of Última Esperanza, , one of the four provinces that make up the Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region in the southernmost part of Chile...
  
  
• Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  The Southern Patagonian Ice Field , located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Argentina and Chile, is the second largest contiguous extrapolar extent of ice in the world...
  
  

Regions of Chile

• Regions of Chile
• Antofagasta Region
  Antofagasta Region
  The II Antofagasta Region is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces, Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla...
  
  
• Araucanía Region
  Araucanía Region
  The IX Araucanía Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south....
  
  
• Arica-Parinacota Region
  Arica-Parinacota Region
  The XV Arica and Parinacota Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the east and Chile's Tarapacá Region to the south. It is also the country's newest region, created under Law 20.175. It became operational on October 8, 2007...
  
  
• Atacama Region
  Atacama Region
  The Atacama Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces, Chañaral, Copiapó and Huasco. It is bordered to the north by Antofagasta, to the south by Coquimbo, to east with Provinces of Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan of Argentina, and to west with...
  
  
• Aisén Region
• Bío-Bío Region
  Bío-Bío Region
  The VIII Biobío Region , one of the fifteen first-order administrative divisions in Chile, comprises four provinces: Arauco, Biobio, Concepción, and Ñuble.The capital of the Region is Concepción...
  
  
• Coquimbo Region
  Coquimbo Region
  The IV Coquimbo Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is some 400 km north of the capital, Santiago.The capital and largest city is La Serena, other important cities include the seaport Coquimbo and the agricultural centre...
  
  
• Los Lagos Region
  Los Lagos Region
  Los Lagos Region is one of Chile's 15 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena. The region contains the country's second largest island, Chiloé, and the second largest lake, Llanquihue.Its capital is Puerto Montt;...
  
  
• Los Ríos Region
  Los Ríos Region
  The XIV Los Ríos Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. Its capital is Valdivia. Pop. 356,396 . It began to operate as region on October 2, 2007. It was created by subdividing the Los Lagos Region in southern Chile...
  
  
• Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region
  Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region
  The XII Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions...
  
  
• Maule Region
  Maule Region
  The VII Maule Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. Its capital is Talca. The region takes its name from the Maule River which, running westward from the Andes, bisects the region and spans a basin of about 20,600 km2...
  
  
• O'Higgins Region
  O'Higgins Region
  The VI O'Higgins Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is subdivided into three provinces. It is named in honour of Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, one of Chile's founding fathers....
  
  
• Santiago Metropolitan Region
  Santiago Metropolitan Region
  Santiago Metropolitan Region or simply Metropolitan Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is the country's only landlocked administrative region and contains the nation's capital, Santiago...
  
  
• Tarapacá Region
  Tarapacá Region
  The I Tarapacá Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It borders the Chilean Arica and Parinacota Region to the north, Bolivia's Oruro Department on the east, the Antofagasta Region on the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west. The port city of Iquique The I Tarapacá...
  
  
• Valparaíso Region
  Valparaíso Region
  The V Valparaíso Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.Valparaíso Region, 2006 With the country's third highest population of 1,539,852 million in 2002 and third smallest area of , the region is Chile's second most densely populated after the Santiago Metropolitan Region...
  
  
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• Arauco Province
  Arauco Province
  Arauco Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . It spans a coastal area of just south of the mouth of the Biobío River, the traditional demarcation between the nation's major natural regions, Zona Central and Zona Sur...
  
  
• Biobío Province
  Biobío Province
  Biobío Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . Its capital is Los Ángeles . It is bounded on the north, west and south by the provinces of Concepción, Arauco and Malleco, respectively, and on the east by Argentina. It has an area of of well-wooded and mountainous...
  
  
• Biotren
  Biotren
  The similar system for Metro of Concepción or Biotren is basic at grade urban commuter rail system that covers a big part of the city of Concepción, capital of the region of Bío-Bío, also known as Gran Concepción or Concepción Metropolitan Area, both synonyms of "city" according to the urbanistic...
  
  
• Biobío Province
  Biobío Province
  Biobío Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . Its capital is Los Ángeles . It is bounded on the north, west and south by the provinces of Concepción, Arauco and Malleco, respectively, and on the east by Argentina. It has an area of of well-wooded and mountainous...
  
  
• Bío-Bío Region
  Bío-Bío Region
  The VIII Biobío Region , one of the fifteen first-order administrative divisions in Chile, comprises four provinces: Arauco, Biobio, Concepción, and Ñuble.The capital of the Region is Concepción...
  
  
• Bío-Bío River
  Bío-Bío River
  The Biobío River is the second largest river in Chile. It originates from Icalma and Galletué lakes in the Andes and flows 380 km to the Gulf of Arauco on the Pacific Ocean....
  
  
• Chillán
  Chillán
  Chillán is a city in the Biobío Region of Chile located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the geographical center of the country. It is the capital of Ñuble Province and, with a population of approximately 170,000 people , the most populated urban center of this province...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Ferroviario Almirante Arturo Fernández Vial
  Club Deportivo Ferroviario Almirante Arturo Fernández Vial
  Club Deportivo Ferroviario Almirante Arturo Fernández Vial is a football club in Chile, from the Concepción area, in the Bio-Bio Region. The team was founded on June 3, 1903, and it currently plays in the third tier of the Chilean professional leagues....
  
  
• Cobquecura
  Cobquecura
  Cobquecura is a town and commune in the Ñuble Province of Chile's eighth region of Biobío . The town is located on the northwest Pacific coast of the Ñuble Province about southwest of the national capital of Santiago.On February 27, 2010 Cobquecura was the epicenter of the huge earthquake and...
  
  
• Concepción, Chile
  Concepción, Chile
  Concepción is a city in Chile, capital of Concepción Province and of the Biobío Region or Region VIII. Greater Concepción is the second-largest conurbation in the country, with 889,725 inhabitants...
  
  
• Laja Falls
  Laja Falls
  The Laja Falls is a waterfall located in the Laja River in southcentral Chile. It lies next to the old Pan-American Highway, between the cities of Los Ángeles and Chillán. It flows into a rocky canyon which has become very commercialized because of its location.-External links:*...
  
  
• Laja River (Chile)
  Laja River (Chile)
  Laja River is a river in Chile, along which can be found the Laja Falls. It is located in the Bío-Bío Region. The source of the river is Laguna del Laja in the Andes, then flows westward through the Chilean Central Valley and terminates into the Bío-Bío River, being an important tributary of...
  
  
• Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
  
• Ñuble Province
  Ñuble Province
  Ñuble Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío . It spans an area of and is administratively constituted by 21 communes. It has a population of 441,604 inhabitants. Its capital is the city of Chillán.-History:...
  
  
• Penco
  Penco
  Penco is a Chilean city and commune in Concepción Province, Biobío Region on the Bay of Concepción. Founded as the city of Concepción del Nuevo Extremo on February 12, 1550 by Pedro de Valdivia, it is the third oldest city in the country after Santiago founded first in 1541 and La Serena second...
  
  
• Talcahuano
  Talcahuano
  Talcahuano is a port city and commune in the Biobío Region of Chile. It is part of the Greater Concepción conurbation. Talcahuano is located in the south of the Central Zone of Chile.-Geography:...
  
  
• Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  Catholic University of the Holy Conception is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.The University...
  
  
• Universidad San Sebastián
  Universidad San Sebastián
  Saint Sebastian University is a private Chilean university with its headquarters located in Concepción. The university also has faculties in Santiago, Valdivia, Osorno and Puerto Montt. It was founded in 1989, and received formal state recognition as a university in 2001.-External links:*...
  
  
• Universidad de Concepción
  Universidad de Concepción
  The University of Concepción , also known for its acronym UdeC, is one of the most prestigious universities in Chile. It is the third oldest university in the country, and it is part of the Council of Rectors. It was the first University founded in the South of Chile, and the first to become a...
  
  
• Universidad del Bío-Bío
  Universidad del Bío-Bío
  University of Bío-Bío is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- University of Bío-Bío :The University of Bío-Bío is heir of the tradition of state and public higher education in the Bío Bío Region...
  
  

Municipalities of Chile

• La Calera
  La Calera, Chile
  La Calera is a city and commune in the Quillota Province of central Chile's fifth region of Valparaíso.-Geography:La Calera is located from Valparaíso, and from Santiago. Its area is...
  
  
• Lo Barnechea
  Lo Barnechea
  Lo Barnechea is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is home to some of Chile's fanciest neighborhoods comparable to Beverly Hills and River Oaks...
  
  
• El Bosque (municipality, Chile)
  El Bosque (municipality, Chile)
  El Bosque is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The commune spans an area of .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Cerrillos (municipality)
  Cerrillos (municipality)
  Cerrillos is a census-designated commune of Chile in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation.-Administration:...
  
  
• Cerro Navia
  Cerro Navia
  Cerro Navia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most densely populated communes of Santiago, Chile.- History :...
  
  
• Chanco (Chile)
  Chanco (Chile)
  Chanco is a Chilean commune located in Cauquenes Province, Maule Region.-Geography:Chanco is bordered on the north by Constitución and Empedrado ; on the south by Pelluhue; on the east by Cauquenes, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• La Cisterna
  La Cisterna
  La Cisterna is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on 30 May 1925.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Colbún
  Colbún
  Colbún is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. The commune has a population of over 17,000 inhabitants and covers an area of , making it the province's largest. Its capital, the town of Colbún, has 3,679 inhabitants...
  
  
• Las Condes
  Las Condes
  Las Condes is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid to high income families...
  
  
• Conchalí
  Conchalí
  Conchalí is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a northwestern suburb of Santiago.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Corral
• Curacautin
  Curacautín
  Curacautín, which means "Gathering Stone" in Mapudungun, is a commune and city in the Chilean province of Malleco. Curacautín is located 90 kilometres northeast of Temuco, in a valley near the volcanoes Tolhuaca, Lonquimay and Llaima, all of which can be seen from the city...
  
  
• Empedrado, Talca
  Empedrado, Talca
  Empedrado is a town and commune in the Talca Province of Chile's Maule Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Empedrado spans an area of and has 4,225 inhabitants . Of these, 2,499 lived in urban areas and 1,726 in rural areas...
  
  
• Lo Espejo
  Lo Espejo
  Lo Espejo is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It has the country's largest population density.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Estación Central
  Estación Central
  Estación Central is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its name comes from the Estación Central railway station located in the commune.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Florida, Chile
• La Granja (municipality)
  La Granja (municipality)
  La Granja is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, La Granja spans an area of and has 132,520 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Huechuraba
  Huechuraba
  Huechuraba is a city and commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.Huechuraba has a mild mediterranean climate: relatively hot dry summers with temperatures reaching up to on the hottest days; winters are more humid, with typical maximum daily temperatures of ,...
  
  
• Independencia (municipality, Chile)
  Independencia (municipality, Chile)
  Independencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Independencia spans an area of and has 65,479 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Linares, Chile
  Linares, Chile
  Linares is a Chilean city and commune located in the Maule Region and lies in the fertile Chilean Central Valley, south of Santiago and south of Talca, the regional capital...
  
  
• Longaví
  Longaví
  Longaví is a Chilean city and commune located in Linares Province, one of the four provinces that make up the Maule Region, in the geographical center of Chile.-Geography:...
  
  
• Macul
  Macul
  Macul is a commune of Chile located in the central-eastern part of Greater Santiago, bordered by the communes of Ñuñoa to the north, San Joaquín to the west, Peñalolén to the east and La Florida to the south....
  
  
• Maipú (municipality)
  Maipú (municipality)
  Maipú is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation. It was founded on February 16, 1821 and it is the place of the Battle of Maipú , where Chile's independence was consolidated...
  
  
• Ñuñoa
  Ñuñoa
  Ñuñoa is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its inhabitants are primarily a middle and upper-middle class....
  
  
• Parral, Chile
  Parral, Chile
  Parral is a city and commune and in the Linares Province of central Chile's seventh region of Maule.-History:Parral was founded in 1795 by the Viceroy of Peru, Ambrosio O'Higgins...
  
  
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda (municipality)
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda (municipality)
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is named after President Pedro Aguirre Cerda.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Pelluhue
  Pelluhue
  Pelluhue is a town and commune in the Cauquenes Province of central Chile's eighth region of Maule.-Geography:...
  
  
• Pencahue
  Pencahue
  Pencahue is a town and commune in Chile, located in Talca Province, in the seventh region of Maule. The commune spans and area of .Also there are another three places called Pencahue, near to San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Sexta Región, Chile...
  
  
• Peñalolén
  Peñalolén
  Peñalolén is a Chilean commune in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on November 15, 1984.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Pintana
  La Pintana
  La Pintana is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. La Pintana is home to Antumapu, the agricultural and veterinary sciences campus of University of Chile Chile's oldest university.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Lo Prado
  Lo Prado
  Lo Prado is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Lo Prado spans an area of and has 104,316 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Providencia (municipality, Chile)
  Providencia (municipality, Chile)
  Providencia is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Part of Greater Santiago, it is bordered by the communes of Santiago to the west, Recoleta to the northwest, Las Condes and Vitacura to the northeast, La Reina to the east, and Ñuñoa to the south.In 2006...
  
  
• Pudahuel
  Pudahuel
  Pudahuel is a census-designated commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Santiago's international airport Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez is located there...
  
  
• Quilicura
  Quilicura
  Quilicura founded in 1902, is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a satellite city on what was originally the outskirts of the city of Santiago, but as urban sprawl has set in it is now quickly urbanizing from what was recently prime agricultural land...
  
  
• Quinta Normal
  Quinta Normal
  Quinta Normal is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is named after a large park in the area.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Recoleta (municipality)
  Recoleta (municipality)
  Recoleta is a commune of Chile founded in the Pinochet's government, located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.-Demographics:...
  
  
• La Reina
  La Reina
  La Reina is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was created in 1963 from an eastern portion of the Ñuñoa commune...
  
  
• Renca
  Renca
  Renca is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on May 6, 1894.-Demographics:According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Renca spans an area of and has 133,518 inhabitants , making the commune an entirely urban area...
  
  
• Retiro, Chile
  Retiro, Chile
  Retiro is a town and commune in Chile, located in Linares Province, in the seventh region of Maule.-Geography:Retiro is located to the south of Santiago, to the south of the city of Linares , and 15 km to the north of the city of Parral...
  
  
• San Fabián
  San Fabián
  San Fabián is one of 21 communes in the Ñuble Province of central Chile's Biobío Region. The capital is the town of San Fabián de Alico. The commune spans an area of .-Administration:...
  
  
• San Javier, Chile
  San Javier, Chile
  San Javier is a Chilean city and commune located in the Province of Linares, Maule Region. The city lies in the geographical center of the country, some south of Santiago, to the northwest of the provincial capital, Linares, and to the south of Talca, the regional capital...
  
  
• San Joaquín
  San Joaquín
  San Joaquín is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.The alcalde's office and municipal building is located at Ave...
  
  
• San Miguel (municipality)
  San Miguel (municipality)
  San Miguel is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on August 10, 1896.-Administration:...
  
  
• San Ramón, Chile
• Santiago (municipality)
• Villa Alegre, Chile
  Villa Alegre, Chile
  Villa Alegre a commune and city located in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile. With , Villa Alegre is the smallest commune by area in the Maule Region. It sits above sea level.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Vitacura
  Vitacura
  Vitacura is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most expensive and fashionable areas of Santiago...
  
  
• Yerbas Buenas
  Yerbas Buenas
  Yerbas Buenas is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. It lies in the geographical center of the country, on the fertile central plain, some south of the national capital of Santiago, south of Talca, the regional capital and north of Linares, the provincial...
  
  

Religion in Chile

• Islam in Chile
  Islam in Chile
  The statistics for Islam in Chile estimate a total Muslim population of approximately 4,000, representing less than 0.1% of the population. There are a number of Islamic organizations in Chile, including the "Muslim Society of Chile and As-Salam Mosque" in Santiago, Chile, "Bilal Mosque" in...
  
  
• Roman Catholicism in Chile
  Roman Catholicism in Chile
  The Catholic Church in Chile is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome, and the Chilean Bishops Conference....
  
  

Roman Catholic dioceses in Chile

• Archdiocese of Antofagasta
  • Diocese of Arica
  • Diocese of Iquique
  • Territorial Prelature of Calama
    Territorial Prelature of Calama
    The Diocese of San Juan de Calama is a diocese located in the city of Calama in the Ecclesiastical province of Antofagasta in Chile.-History:* July 21, 1965: Established as Territorial Prelature of Calama from Diocese of Antofagasta and Diocese of Iquique...
    
    
• Archdiocese of Concepción, Chile (created as Diócesis de La Santísima Concepción
  Diocese of La Santísima Concepción
  Diocese of La Santísima Concepción is the old name of the Archdiocese of Concepción, Chile....
  
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  • Diocese of Chillán
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Los Ángeles
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Los Ángeles
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa María de Los Ángeles is a diocese located in the city of Los Ángeles in the Ecclesiastical province of Concepción in Chile.-History:...
    
    
  • Diocese of Temuco
  • Diocese of Villarrica
  • Diocese of Valdivia
• Archdiocese of La Serena
  • Diocese of Copiapó
  • Territorial Prelature of Illapel
    Territorial Prelature of Illapel
    The Territorial Prelature of Illapel is a territorial prelature located in the city of Illapel in the Ecclesiastical province of La Serena in Chile.-History:...
    
    
• Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
  • Diocese of San Felipe
  • Diocese of Valparaíso
  • Diocese of Melipilla
  • Diocese of San Bernardo
  • Diocese of Rancagua
  • Diocese of Talca
  • Diocese of Linares, Chile
    Diocese of Linares, Chile
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares, or "Diócesis de San Ambrosio de Linares", was established in Linares, Chile by Pope Pius XI on October 18, 1925 by means of the Bulla Notabiliter Aucto....
    
    
• Archdiocese of Puerto Montt
  • Diocese of Osorno
  • Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud
  • Diocese of Punta Arenas
• Apostolic Vicariate of Aysén
• Diocese for the Military Services (Obispado Castrense)

Science and technology in Chile

• Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
  Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
  The Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment is a 10m antenna built by Mitsubishi Electric as a preprototype for ALMA.The ASTE was deployed to its site on Pampa La Bola, near Cerro Chajnantor and the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in northern Chile. The antenna shows excellent performance...
  
  
• Cetacean Conservation Center
  Cetacean Conservation Center
  The Cetacean Conservation Center is a Chilean NGO dedicated to the conservation of cetaceans and other marine mammals that inhabit the coastal waters of Chile...
  
  
• European Southern Observatory
  European Southern Observatory
  The European Southern Observatory is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy, supported by fifteen countries...
  
  
• Very Large Telescope
  Very Large Telescope
  The Very Large Telescope is a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, each with a primary mirror 8.2m across, which are generally used separately but can be used together to...
  
  

Chilean scientists

"See also: Chilean biochemists"

World War I ships of Chile

• Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
  Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
  The Chilean cruiser Chacabuco was a cruiser in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II.The Chacabuco was a Chilean cruiser built by Amstrong Shipyard entered service in 1902, modernized in 1941 and scraped 1947....
  
  

World War II ships of Chile

• Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
  Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
  The Chilean cruiser Chacabuco was a cruiser in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II.The Chacabuco was a Chilean cruiser built by Amstrong Shipyard entered service in 1902, modernized in 1941 and scraped 1947....
  
  

Chilean society

• Asociación de Guías y Scouts de Chile
  Asociación de Guías y Scouts de Chile
  The Association of Guides and Scouts of Chile - Asociación de Guías y Scouts de Chile was formed in 1978 by the amalgamation of the Asociación de Scouts de Chile and the Asociación de Guías de Chile .-History:...
  
  
• Demographics of Chile
  Demographics of Chile
  This article is about the demographic features of Chile, including population density, ethnicity, economic status and other aspects of the population....
  
  
• Huaso
  Huaso
  A huaso is a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to the Argentinian, Rio Grande do Sul's or Uruguayan gaucho, the American cowboy, the Australian stockman, and Mexican vaquero and charro. A female huaso is called a huasa, although the term china is far more commonly used for his wife...
  
  
• Mapuche
  Mapuche
  The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...
  
  
• Public holidays in Chile
  Public holidays in Chile
  This is a list of public holidays in Chile; most of them are Christian holidays.-Dates for the year 2011:-History:...
  
  

Ethnic groups in Chile

• Alacaluf
  Alacaluf
  The Alacaluf are a South American people living in Chile on the Strait of Magellan , Chile. Their traditional language is known as Kawésqar.- Economy :They were a nomadic sea-faring people until the twentieth century...
  
  
• Austronesian people
  Austronesian people
  The Austronesian-speaking peoples are various populations in Oceania and Southeast Asia that speak languages of the Austronesian family. They include Taiwanese aborigines; the majority ethnic groups of East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Madagascar, Micronesia, and Polynesia,...
  
  
• Aymara people
• Diaguita
  Diaguita
  The Diaguita, also called Diaguita-Calchaquí, are a group of South American indigenous peoples. The Diaguita culture developed between the 8th and 16th centuries in what are now the provinces of Salta, Catamarca, La Rioja and Tucumán in northwestern Argentina, and in the Atacama and Coquimbo...
  
  
• Mapuche
  Mapuche
  The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...
  
  
• Rapanui
  Rapanui
  The Rapa Nui or Rapanui are the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in the Pacific Ocean. The easternmost Polynesian culture, the Rapa Nui people make up 60% of Easter Island's population, with some living also in mainland Chile...
  
  
• Selknam

Mapuche

• Caupolican
  Caupolican
  Caupolicán was a Toqui, the military leader of the Mapuche people of Chile, that commanded their army during the first Mapuche rising against the Spanish conquistadors from 1553 to 1558....
  
  
• Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo (tribal chief)
  Colocolo was a Mapuche leader in the early period of the Arauco War. He was a major figure in Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's epic poem La Araucana, about the early Arauco War. In the poem he was the one that proposed the contest between the rival candidates for Toqui that resulted in the choice of...
  
  
• Huilliche
  Huilliche
  The Huilliche is an ethnic group of Chile, belonging to the Mapuche culture. They live in mountain valleys in an area south of Toltén River and on Chiloé Archipelago...
  
  
• Lautaro (toqui)
• Mapuche
  Mapuche
  The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. They constitute a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Their influence extended...
  
  
• Picunche
  Picunche
  The Picunche , also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a mapudungun speaking Chilean people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas...
  
  
• Toqui
  Toqui
  Toqui is a title conferred by the Mapuche to those who are chosen as their leaders during times of war. The toqui is chosen in an assembly or parliament of the chieftains of the various clans or confederation of clans , allied during the war in question...
  
  

Sport in Chile

• Chile at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Chile at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Chile participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.Chile entered two athletes in the following sports:*Alpine skiing: 2 male-Medalists:-External links:**...
  
  
• Chile national rugby union team
  Chile national rugby union team
  The Chile national rugby union team is a rugby union nation representing Chile. They first played in 1935 and have yet to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. Rugby union in Chile is administered by the Federación de Rugby de Chile...
  
  
• Chilean rodeo
  Chilean rodeo
  Rodeo is a traditional sport in Chile. It was declared the national sport in 1962. It has since thrived, especially in the more rural areas of the country. Chilean rodeo is different from the rodeo found in North America...
  
  
• Surfing in Chile
  Surfing in Chile
  Travelers from all over the World visit the wonderful country of Chile that has many beaches for surfing, especially in the northern region where the weather conditions attract many surfers from all over the world....
  
  

Basketball in Chile

• Chile national basketball team
  Chile national basketball team
  The Chile national basketball team represents Chile in basketball international competitions, and is controlled by the Federación de Básquetbol de Chile...
  
  
• South American Basketball Championship 1932
  South American Basketball Championship 1932
  The South American Basketball Championship 1932 was the second South American Basketball Championship. It was held in Santiago, Chile and won by Uruguay.-Preliminary round:...
  
  
• South American Basketball Championship 1937
  South American Basketball Championship 1937
  The South American Basketball Championship 1937 was the fifth South American Basketball Championship. It was held in Valparaíso and Santiago, Chile and won by the host Chile national basketball team...
  
  
• South American Basketball Championship 1942
  South American Basketball Championship 1942
  The South American Basketball Championship 1942 was the tenth South American Basketball Championship. It was held in Santiago, Chile and won by the Argentina national basketball team. It was the first time since the 1935 championship that the host had not won the competition...
  
  

1962 FIFA World Cup

• 1962 FIFA World Cup
  1962 FIFA World Cup
  The 1962 FIFA World Cup, the seventh staging of the World Cup, was held in Chile from 30 May to 17 June. It was won by Brazil, who retained the championship by beating Czechoslovakia 3–1 in the final...
  
  
• Battle of Santiago
  Battle of Santiago
  The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly unsavoury and infamous football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup. It was a game played between hosts Chile and Italy on June 2, 1962 in Santiago...
  
  
• 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification
  1962 FIFA World Cup qualification
  Sweden and Switzerland finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.Switzerland qualified for FIFA World Cup 1962 in Chile-UEFA Group 2:--------------------...
  
  
• 1962 FIFA World Cup squads
  1962 FIFA World Cup squads
  -USSR :Head coach: Gavril Kachalin-Yugoslavia :Head coaches: Ljubomir Lovrić and Prvoslav Mihajlović-Uruguay :Head coach: Juan Carlos Corazzo-Colombia :Head coach: Adolfo Pedernera...
  
  

FIFA World Cup 1962 players

• Jozef Adamec
  Jozef Adamec
  Jozef Adamec is former Slovak football player and manager, one of the most famous Slovak football players of all time.He played mostly for Spartak Trnava...
  
  
• Adelardo Rodríguez
• Flórián Albert
• Enrico Albertosi
  Enrico Albertosi
  Enrico "Ricky" Albertosi is an Italian former footballer who played goalkeeper for the Italian national team in the 1966 World Cup and the 1970 World Cup....
  
  
• José Altafini
  José Altafini
  José João Altafini, is an Italian Brazilian former footballer. He is the joint-third highest scorer in Italian Serie A history with 216 goals. He currently holds the record for the highest no...
  
  
• Altair Gomes de Figueiredo
  Altair Gomes de Figueiredo
  Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, usually referred to as Altair was a football defender and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1962 World Cup....
  
  
• Amarildo
  Amarildo
  Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, also known as Amarildo was a Brazilian football player who played as a striker.His career lasted from 1957 to 1974 and he played for Goytacaz, Flamengo, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama, and in Italy for Milan, Fiorentina and Roma...
  
  
• Stan Anderson
  Stan Anderson
  Stanley Anderson a former English football player and manager. An England international who earned two caps while at Sunderland, he also played for Newcastle and Middlesbrough, becoming the first player to captain all three big north-east clubs...
  
  
• Jimmy Armfield
  Jimmy Armfield
  James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield, CBE, DL is an English former professional football player and manager who currently works as a football pundit for BBC Radio Five Live. He played the whole of his Football League career at Blackpool, usually at right back...
  
  
• Georgi Asparuhov
  Georgi Asparuhov
  Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....
  
  
• Gordon Banks
  Gordon Banks
  Gordon Banks, OBE is a retired English football goalkeeper. The IFFHS named Banks the second best goalkeeper of the 20th century – after Lev Yashin and ahead of Dino Zoff ....
  
  
• Hilderaldo Bellini
  Hilderaldo Bellini
  Hilderaldo Luís Bellini is a Brazilian footballer of Italian origin who played and was known in Brazil as one of the most solid Central defender....
  
  
• Jozef Bomba
  Jozef Bomba
  Jozef Bomba was a Slovak football defender. He impressed as a fast sprinter and excellent athletic footballer...
  
  
• Albert Brülls
  Albert Brülls
  Albert Brülls was a German footballer who played 25 times for his national side, including matches in both the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World Cups....
  
  
• Lorenzo Buffon
  Lorenzo Buffon
  Lorenzo Buffon is an Italian former football goalkeeper. He played 277 times for A.C. Milan, and also played for their city rivals Internazionale. He was also capped 15 times for the Italian national team....
  
  
• Giacomo Bulgarelli
  Giacomo Bulgarelli
  Giacomo Bulgarelli was an Italian international footballer. He was born in Portonovo di Medicina, province of Bologna....
  
  
• Carlos Campos
• Antonio Carbajal
  Antonio Carbajal
  Antonio Félix "Tota" Carbajal Rodríguez is a Mexican former football goalkeeper. He was also called "El Cinco Copas", in reference to his record of five World Cups played.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Carlos José Castilho
  Carlos José Castilho
  Carlos José Castilho was a Brazilian football goalkeeper. He played for Fluminense from 1947 to 1964 and for Brazil. He was a member of the Brazil squad in four World Cups: 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1962, but he only actually played three games, all of them in the 1954 finals...
  
  
• Bobby Charlton
  Bobby Charlton
  Sir Robert "Bobby" Charlton CBE is an English former professional football player, a member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966...
  
  
• Igor Chislenko
  Igor Chislenko
  Igor Leonidovich Chislenko was a Soviet footballer.He played over 200 league games for FC Dinamo Moscow, winning two Soviet league titles and the Soviet Cup on one occasion. He also played for the USSR national football team, appearing 53 times, and scoring 20 goals...
  
  
• John Connelly
  John Connelly
  John Michael Connelly is an English former footballer. He played as an outside forward and was capped 20 times for his country.-Career with Burnley:...
  
  
• Luís Cubilla
  Luís Cubilla
  Luis Alberto Cubilla Almeida is a former Uruguayan football player and coach. He had a successful playing career winning 15 major titles...
  
  
• Mario David
  Mario David
  Mario David was an Italian football player and coach.David was born at Udine. He played in a defensive role from 1952 to 1966 in Livorno, Lanerossi Vicenza, A.C. Milan and U.C. Sampdoria. He won a European Cup Championship with Milan in Wembley 1963 final. In Italy national football team, he...
  
  
• Alfredo Di Stéfano
  Alfredo Di Stéfano
  Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé, born into a family of Italian immigrants from Capri, is a former Argentinian footballer and coach, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time...
  
  
• Valdir Pereira
  Valdir Pereira
  Waldyr Pereira , nicknamed Didi , was a Brazilian footballer who played midfielder. He played in three World Cups: 1954, 1958, and 1962, winning the latter two. He is considered to be one of the greatest midfielders in the sport renowned for his range of passing, stamina and flawless technique...
  
  
• Djalma Santos
  Djalma Santos
  Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos known simply as Djalma Santos is a former Brazilian footballer who started for the Brazil national team in four World Cups, winning two, in 1958 and 1962. Santos is considered to be one of the greatest right-backs of all time...
  
  
• Bryan Douglas
  Bryan Douglas
  Bryan Douglas is a former English footballer.During his career, he played for Blackburn Rovers from 1954 to 1969, totalling 438 league appearances and 100 goals. He also earned 36 caps and scored 11 goals for England. He appeared in two World Cups, in 1958 and 1962, appearing in all of England's...
  
  
• George Eastham
  George Eastham
  George Edward Eastham, OBE is an English former footballer. He is known for playing for Newcastle United, Arsenal and Stoke City, as well as a non-playing member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad...
  
  
• Herbert Erhardt
  Herbert Erhardt
  Herbert 'Ertl' Erhard , also known as Herbert Erhardt, was a German footballer. As a central defender, he played for SpVgg Fürth and Bayern Munich. He was known for his hard tackling, doggedness and captain like performances...
  
  
• Luis Eyzaguirre
  Luis Eyzaguirre
  Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva , also known as Fifo, is a former Chilean football player. He played right midfield in the Universidad de Chile football team known as the Ballet Azul, with which he won four national championships.He played in 1959 Copa América and in the FIFA World Cup he achieved...
  
  
• Ron Flowers
  Ron Flowers
  Ronald "Ron" Flowers is an English former professional footballer, most known for his time at Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was a member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup squad. He is the elder brother of John Flowers.-Career:...
  
  
• Milan Galić
  Milan Galic
  Milan Galić is a former Serbian footballer.He scored 37 international goals in 51 matches for the Yugoslavia national football team. He participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal, the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where Yugoslavia finished second , and the 1962...
  
  
• Garrincha
  Garrincha
  Manuel Francisco dos Santos , known by the nickname "Garrincha" , was an association football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962. He played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo.The word garrincha itself...
  
  
• Francisco Gento
  Francisco Gento
  Francisco "Paco" Gento López is a former Spanish football player.-Biography:He débuted in the Primera División with Racing Santander in the 1952–53 season...
  
  
• Gilmar
  Gilmar
  Gylmar dos Santos Neves known simply as Gilmar , is a former association footballer who played goalkeeper for Corinthians and Santos and was a member of the Brazil national team in three World Cups. He was elected the best Brazilian goalkeeper of the 20th Century and one of the best in the world...
  
  
• Jimmy Greaves
  Jimmy Greaves
  James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves is an English former football player, England's third highest international goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of Tottenham Hotspur football club, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football and more recently a television pundit -...
  
  
• Gyula Grosics
  Gyula Grosics
  Gyula Grosics is a Hungarian former football goalkeeper who played 86 times for the Hungarian national football team and was part of the legendary Golden Team of the 1950s. He was nicknamed the Black Panther ....
  
  
• Helmut Haller
  Helmut Haller
  Helmut Haller is a former footballer who represented West Germany at three World Cups.A playmaker and striker who made his international debut at age 19 in 1958, he played at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England and the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, earning a total...
  
  
• Johnny Haynes
  Johnny Haynes
  John Norman "Johnny" Haynes was an English footballer, best known for his 18 years at Fulham. He played a club-record 658 games and scored 158 goals for the club between 1952 and 1970...
  
  
• Gerry Hitchens
  Gerry Hitchens
  Gerald Archibald "Gerry" Hitchens was an English footballer, who played as a centre forward.Hitchens was born in the village of Rawnsley, Staffordshire, near Cannock, and began his career with non-league Kidderminster Harriers in 1953...
  
  
• Alan Hodgkinson
  Alan Hodgkinson
  Alan Hodgkinson MBE is a former footballer who played in the position of goalkeeper. At just over , Hodgkinson was on the small side for a goalkeeper, but made up for the lack of height by his good positional play.-Football career:He signed for Sheffield United from Worksop Town on 1 August 1953,...
  
  
• Don Howe
• Roger Hunt
  Roger Hunt
  Roger Hunt, MBE is an English former footballer. He was a member of the England team which won the 1966 World Cup.-Club career:...
  
  
• Valentin Kozmich Ivanov
  Valentin Kozmich Ivanov
  Valentin Kozmich Ivanov was a football winger/striker, co-leading scorer at the 1962 World Cup and co-1960 European Nations' Cup top scorer.Ivanov appeared 59 times for the Soviet Union, scoring 26 goals...
  
  
• Josef Jelínek
  Josef Jelínek
  Josef Jelínek is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 10 matches and scored 2 goals.He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal....
  
  
• Dražan Jerković
• Josef Kadraba
  Josef Kadraba
  Josef Kadraba is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 17 matches and scored 9 goals.He was a participant at the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal....
  
  
• Derek Kevan
  Derek Kevan
  Derek Tennyson Kevan is a retired English footballer. He played for West Bromwich Albion as an attacker. He earned 14 caps for the England national football team, scoring a total of eight goals, including two in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. During his Albion career, he earned the nickname "The Tank"...
  
  
• Andrej Kvašňák
  Andrej Kvašnák
  Andrej Kvašňák was a Slovak football player. Born in Košice, he played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 47 matches and scored 13 goals....
  
  
• Jan Lála
  Jan Lála
  Jan Lála is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 37 matches and scored one goal.He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal....
  
  
• Honorino Landa
  Honorino Landa
  Honorino Landa Vera was a Chilean football player.He was the youngest player of the Chilean team that won third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Once he received his high-school diploma in 1959, he went to play for the Unión Española team...
  
  
• Cesare Maldini
  Cesare Maldini
  Cesare Maldini is an Italian football manager and former player. He played as a centre back and spent the majority of his career with AC Milan. Maldini also represented Italy at international level in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. His son Paolo, also a defender, previously held the record for the...
  
  
• Eulogio Martínez
  Eulogio Martínez
  Eulogio Martínez Ramiro was a Paraguayan-Spaniard football striker...
  
  
• Silvio Marzolini
  Silvio Marzolini
  Silvio Marzolini is a former Argentine football player who played for Boca Juniors . He is widely regarded as being one of the best left backs of all time, playing this position for the Argentine national team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1966 FIFA World Cup...
  
  
• Humberto Maschio
  Humberto Maschio
  Humberto Dionisio Maschio is an Italian Argentine former football player.Maschio started playing at Arsenal of Lavallol to later move to Quilmes Atlético Club where he proved himself a prolific goal-scorer. He joined Racing Club in 1954, and transferred to Italy in 1957...
  
  
• Václav Mašek
  Václav Mašek
  Václav Mašek is a Czech football player. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia national football team, for which he played 16 matches and scored 5 goals....
  
  
• Josef Masopust
  Josef Masopust
  Josef Masopust is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1962. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of the Czech Republic by the Football Association of the Czech Republic as their most...
  
  
• Mauro Ramos
  Mauro Ramos
  Mauro Ramos, full name Mauro Ramos de Oliveira, was an association footballer. He played centre-back for São Paulo F.C., Santos F.C. and the Brazilian national team....
  
  
• Bobby Moore
  Bobby Moore
  Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore, OBE was an English footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup...
  
  
• Nílton Santos
  Nílton Santos
  Nílton Reis dos Santos is a Brazilian former association footballer who played defender. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was a pioneering left back, being one of first full backs to participate in the offensive game....
  
  
• Maurice Norman
  Maurice Norman
  Maurice Norman is an English former footballer who played nearly 400 times in the Football League as a centre half for Norwich City and Tottenham Hotspur. At international level, Norman won 23 caps for the England national team....
  
  
• Ladislav Novák
  Ladislav Novák
  Ladislav Novák was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain....
  
  
• Alan Peacock
  Alan Peacock
  Alan Peacock is a former English footballer.He spent the majority of his career at Middlesbrough, also playing for Leeds United and Plymouth Argyle. He joined Middlesbrough in 1954 and became a regular in the side in 1958 alongside Brian Clough. Clough scored the majority of the goals, partly due...
  
  
• Joaquín Peiró
  Joaquín Peiró
  Joaquín Peiró Lucas is a retired Spanish football attacking midfielder and manager....
  
  
• Pelé
  Pelé
  However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
  
  
• José Macia
  José Macia
  Pepe, real name José Macia, is a former association footballer and manager. He was left winger for Santos F.C. and the Brazilian national team...
  
  
• Svatopluk Pluskal
  Svatopluk Pluskal
  Svatopluk Pluskal was a Czechoslovak footballer and holder of a silver medal from the World Cup in Chile in 1962.- Early life :...
  
  
• Viktor Ponedelnik
  Viktor Ponedelnik
  Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik is a former Soviet football player, regarded as one of the best strikers in Soviet football history....
  
  
• Ján Popluhár
  Ján Popluhár
  Ján Popluhár was a former Slovak football player. He started his football career after high school with RH Brno...
  
  
• Ferenc Puskás
  Ferenc Puskás
  Ferenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager. He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary, and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. He became Olympic champion in 1952 and was a World Cup finalist in 1954...
  
  
• Antonio Rattín
  Antonio Rattín
  Antonio Ubaldo Rattín is a former Argentine football player, best known as a Boca Juniors midfielder, and because of an incident in a match at the 1966 FIFA World Cup...
  
  
• Severino Reija
• Gianni Rivera
  Gianni Rivera
  Giovanni Rivera is an Italian former football midfielder, mostly as an offensive playmaker, who was awarded the Ballon d'Or, one of the most prestigious individual awards in football, in 1969. He played the majority of his career with Serie A side A.C. Milan...
  
  
• Bobby Robson
  Bobby Robson
  Sir Robert William "Bobby" Robson, CBE was an English footballer and manager, who coached seven European clubs and the England national team during his career....
  
  
• Antonio Roma
  Antonio Roma
  Antonio Roma is a former Argentine football goalkeeper.Nicknamed Tarzan for the way of throwing himself for the ball, he started his professional career with Ferrocarril Oeste in 1955, where he played until 1959...
  
  
• Leonel Sánchez
  Leonel Sánchez
  Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros is a former professional football player.Regarded as one of Chile's most important players, Sánchez holds the record for most games played for Chile with 84 games and 23 goals between 1955 and 1968...
  
  
• José Santamaria
  José Santamaria
  José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias is an Spanish-Uruguayan former football player and coach. He is regarded by many as one of the all-time greatest central defenders...
  
  
• Hans Schäfer
  Hans Schäfer
  Hans Schäfer is a former German footballer. He played for 1. FC Köln between 1948 and 1965. He also played for the West-Germany national football team, earning 39 caps and scoring 15 goals. He played in three World Cups, in 1954, 1958, and 1962, earning a winner's medal in 1954 and scoring a total...
  
  
• Adolf Scherer
  Adolf Scherer
  Adolf Scherer is a former Czechoslovakian footballer. He played 36 games and scored 22 goals for the Czechoslovakia national football team. Scherer represented Czechoslovakia at the 1960 European Nations' Cup and 1958 FIFA World Cup, where he did not play any match...
  
  
• Heinz Schneiter
  Heinz Schneiter
  Heinz Schneiter is a former Swiss football player.He got 44 caps and 3 goals for Switzerland, playing all three games at the 1962 World Cup as well as in Switzerland's 0-5 loss to West Germany at the 1966 World Cup. He scored against West Germany in the 1962 World Cup.He coached FC Thun and BSC...
  
  
• Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
  Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
  Karl-Heinz Schnellinger is a former German footballer. He was one of the world's best defenders for a decade in the 1960s. He was nicknamed the "Volkswagen" for his continuity of performance, both in quantity and in quality...
  
  
• Viliam Schrojf
  Viliam Schrojf
  Viliam Schrojf was a former Slovak football goalkeeper. He received 39 caps for Czechoslovakia.-Career:...
  
  
• Uwe Seeler
• Dragoslav Šekularac
  Dragoslav Šekularac
  Dragoslav Šekularac Dragoslav Šekularac (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Шекуларац) Dragoslav Šekularac (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Шекуларац) (born November 30, 1937 in Štip, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia is a Serbian former football player and coach....
  
  
• Omar Sivori
  Omar Sivori
  Enrique Omar Sívori was an Italian Argentine football striker and manager. He is known for his time with the successful Juventus side during the late 1950s and early 1960s. At club level he also played for River Plate and Napoli.On the international level, he first appeared for the Argentine...
  
  
• Josip Skoblar
  Josip Skoblar
  Josip "Joško" Skoblar is a Croatian former football player and manager. He was primarily a forward, and also capable of playing on both wings.-Club:...
  
  
• Ron Springett
  Ron Springett
  Ronald "Ron" Deryk George Springett was a football goalkeeper for Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and England.-Career:Springett made 33 appearances for England, then the most by any Sheffield Wednesday player. He held this record for 26 years. He made his England debut against Northern Ireland in 1959...
  
  
• Luis Suárez Miramontes
  Luis Suárez Miramontes
  Luis Suárez Miramontes , also known by the diminutive Luisito, is a Spanish former footballer and manager. He played as a midfielder for Deportivo de La Coruña, CD España Industrial, CF Barcelona, Internazionale, Sampdoria and Spain. Suárez is regarded as one of Spain's greatest players; as a...
  
  
• Peter Swan
• Horst Szymaniak
  Horst Szymaniak
  Horst Szymaniak was a former German football player.- Career :Clubs he played for include: SpVgg Erkenschwick, Wuppertaler SV, Karlsruher SC, Calcio Catania, F.C. Internazionale Milano, A.S...
  
  
• Ely Tacchella
  Ely Tacchella
  Ely Tacchella is a former Swiss football player.He got 42 caps for Switzerland, playing all three games at the 1962 World Cup as well as in Switzerland's 0-5 loss to West Germany at the 1966 World Cup.-References:...
  
  
• Lajos Tichy
  Lajos Tichy
  Lajos Tichy was a Hungarian footballer. He played for the club Budapest Honvéd FC, scoring 247 goals in 320 league games. He also scored 51 goals in 72 internationals for the Hungary national football team, including four in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and three in the 1962 FIFA World Cup...
  
  
• Hans Tilkowski
  Hans Tilkowski
  Hans Tilkowski is a former German footballer.The goalkeeper started his career with VfL Husen 19 and SuS Kaiserau....
  
  
• Giovanni Trapattoni
  Giovanni Trapattoni
  Giovanni Trapattoni , sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap", is an Italian football coach and former player, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Serie A. As a player he was part of Italy's squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup....
  
  
• Horacio Troche
  Horacio Troche
  Horacio Federico Troche Herrera is a former Uruguayan footballer.The central defender played 28 times for the Uruguayan national team between 1959 and 1966, and featured at the 1962 World Cup in Chile and at the 1966 World Cup in England...
  
  
• Vavá
  Vavá
  Vavá, real name Edvaldo Izídio Neto, was an association footballer who is widely considered one of the best strikers of his generation. His nickname was "Peito de Aço"...
  
  
• Ray Wilson (footballer)
• Rolf Wüthrich
  Rolf Wüthrich
  Rolf Wüthrich was a Swiss footballer.-Club career:* 1958–1961: Fussballclub Zürich* 1961–1962: Servette FC* 1962–1964: Grasshopper-Club Zürich* 1964–1965: 1...
  
  
• Dimitar Yakimov
  Dimitar Yakimov
  Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...
  
  
• Lev Yashin
  Lev Yashin
  Lev Ivanovich Yashin nicknamed as "The Black Spider", was a Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper, considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. He was known for his superior athleticism in goal, imposing stature, amazing reflex saves and inventing the idea of...
  
  
• Mário Zagallo
  Mário Zagallo
  Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo is a Brazilian former football player and manager.-Biography:Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born in Maceió, Alagoas, to a family of Lebanese and Italian heritage....
  
  
• José Ely de Miranda
  José Ely de Miranda
  José Ely de Miranda, best known as Zito was an association footballer who played in defensive midfield....
  
  
• Zózimo
  Zózimo
  Zózimo Alves Calazães, best known as Zózimo was a Brazilian footballer whose career as a defender and midfielder lasted from 1948 to 1967....
  
  

FIFA World Cup 1962 managers

• Lajos Baróti
  Lajos Baróti
  Lajos Baróti was a Hungarian association football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the outstanding coaches of his era.-Career :...
  
  
• Giovanni Ferrari
  Giovanni Ferrari
  Giovanni Ferrari was an Italian football player. He played 125 times for Juventus F.C and scored 35 goals for the club...
  
  
• Sepp Herberger
  Sepp Herberger
  Josef "Sepp" Herberger was a German football player and manager...
  
  
• Helenio Herrera
  Helenio Herrera
  Helenio Herrera Gavilán was a Franco-Argentine football player and manager.Although born in Argentina, Herrera's parents were both Spanish, his father being a well-known Spanish anarchist in exile...
  
  
• Juan Carlos Lorenzo
• Aymoré Moreira
  Aymoré Moreira
  Aymoré Moreira was a football player and coach...
  
  
• Adolfo Pedernera
  Adolfo Pedernera
  Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera , born in Avellaneda, Argentina, was a football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" , He is still considered by many to be one of the greatest Argentine players of all-time. He was elected the 12th best South american footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the...
  
  
• Walter Winterbottom

1962 FIFA World Cup Squad Templates

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• Template:Italy Squad 1962 World Cup

Football in Chile

• Chile national football team
  Chile national football team
  The Chilean national football team represents Chile in all major international football competitions. The team is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. They have appeared in eight World Cup tournaments and were hosts of the 1962 FIFA World Cup finishing in...
  
  
• Chile national under-20 football team
  Chile national under-20 football team
  Chile national U-20 football team, also known as Chile Sub-20 or La Rojita, is part of the Federación de Fútbol de Chile. The U-20 team is considered to be the breeding ground for future Chile national soccer team players...
  
  
• Chile national under-17 football team
  Chile national under-17 football team
  Chile national under-17 football team is the representative of Chile within all FIFA sponsored tournaments that pertain to that age level. It is part of the Federación de Fútbol de Chile and has participated in two FIFA U-17 World Cups...
  
  
• 1962 FIFA World Cup
  1962 FIFA World Cup
  The 1962 FIFA World Cup, the seventh staging of the World Cup, was held in Chile from 30 May to 17 June. It was won by Brazil, who retained the championship by beating Czechoslovakia 3–1 in the final...
  
  
• Ballet Azul
  Ballet Azul
  The Ballet Azul is a term coined in Colombia in the 1950s to describe the Millonarios football team of Bogotá, during its successuful period from 1949–1964, because the blue color of their uniform, the large number of stars who owned the team, and the quality of its game...
  
  
• Battle of Santiago
  Battle of Santiago
  The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly unsavoury and infamous football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup. It was a game played between hosts Chile and Italy on June 2, 1962 in Santiago...
  
  
• Federación de Fútbol de Chile
  Federación de Fútbol de Chile
  The Chilean Football Federation is the governing body of association football in Chile. It was founded June 19, 1895, making it the second oldest South American federation, and is a founding member of CONMEBOL in 1916...
  
  
• Chilean football league system
  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....
  
  
• Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División
  Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División
  The Primera División del Fútbol Profesional Chileno is the top level of Chilean football, and main component of the Chilean football league system. It is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and is currently ranked 9th in the IFFHS' Best Leagues of the World ranking...
  
  
• Los de Abajo
  Los de Abajo
  Los de Abajo is the official supporters group of Universidad de Chile. They are one of the biggest groups of supporters in Chile.-History:...
  
  

Chilean football clubs

• Club de Deportes Antofagasta
  Club de Deportes Antofagasta
  Deportes Antofagasta, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta. The club plays in the second level of the Chilean football league system...
  
  
• Audax Club Sportivo Italiano
  Audax Club Sportivo Italiano
  Audax Italiano La Florida is a Chilean football club based in La Florida. Founded in 1910, it plays in the Chilean Primera División and has spent most of their history in the top tier of Chilean football. Audax has been national champions four times, being the sixth chilean team with more title...
  
  
• Cobreloa
  Cobreloa
  Club de Deportes Cobreloa is a Chilean football club from the Atacama Desert mining city of Calama which has established itself as one of the country's most competitive clubs. The club was founded on January 7, 1977 and play in the Chilean top flight, the Primera División, where they have played...
  
  
• Club Deportes Cobresal
  Club Deportes Cobresal
  Club de Deportes Cobresal is a Chilean football club, based in El Salvador, Atacama Region which is a mining region. The club was founded May 5, 1979 and plays in the first division of the Chilean football league. Their home games are played at the Estadio El Cobre stadium, which has a capacity of...
  
  
• Colo-Colo
  Colo-Colo
  Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean football club based in the commune of Macul, Santiago. It competes in the Primera División, the top-flight football league in the country, from which they have never been relegated. Their home ground is the Estadio Monumental David Arellano.Colo-Colo...
  
  
• Coquimbo Unido
  Coquimbo Unido
  Coquimbo Unido, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Coquimbo. The club was founded August 15, 1957 and plays in the second division of the Chilean football league...
  
  
• Corporación Deportiva Everton de Viña del Mar
  Corporación Deportiva Everton de Viña del Mar
  Everton de Viña del Mar is a Chilean football club based in the city of Viña del Mar.The club was founded June 24, 1909 after a group of Anglo-Chilean teenagers formed a football club and named it after the English team Everton that had just made a pioneering visit to South America.The club are...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Huachipato
  Club Deportivo Huachipato
  Club Deportivo Huachipato, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talcahuano. The club was founded June 7, 1947 and plays in the top level of the Chilean football league system, the Primera División. Their home games are played at the Estadio CAP, which has a capacity of 10,500...
  
  
• Club de Deportes La Serena
  Club de Deportes La Serena
  Club de Deportes La Serena S.A.D.P., is a Chilean football club based in the city of La Serena, Coquimbo Region. The club was founded December 9, 1955 and plays in the first division of the Chilean football league. Their home games are played at the La Portada stadium, which has a capacity of...
  
  
• Club Deportivo O'Higgins
  Club Deportivo O'Higgins
  Club Deportivo O'Higgins, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Rancagua. The club was founded on April 7, 1955 following the merger of the clubs America and O'Higgins Braden, and plays in the first division of the Chilean football league. The club was previously called PARHS FC...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Palestino
  Club Deportivo Palestino
  Club Deportivo Palestino, is a professional football club based in the city of Santiago, Chile. The club was founded in 1920 and plays in the Primera División de Chile...
  
  
• Club de Deportes Puerto Montt
  Club de Deportes Puerto Montt
  Club de Deportes Puerto Montt is a Chilean football club based in the city of Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region. The club was founded May 6, 1983 and plays at the second level of chilean football, the Primera B...
  
  
• Club Social de Deportes Rangers de Talca
  Club Social de Deportes Rangers de Talca
  Club Social de Deportes Rangers, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Talca. The club was founded November 2, 1902 and plays in the Second division of the Chilean football league...
  
  
• Club de Deportes Santiago Morning
  Club de Deportes Santiago Morning
  Club de Deportes Santiago Morning is a Chilean professional football club based in Recoleta, Santiago. They compete in the Chilean Primera División since 1933, when the league was founded. Santiago Morning was one of the founding teams of the league...
  
  
• Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers
  Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers
  Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers S.A.D.P., is a Chilean football club based in the city of Valparaíso. Founded on 15 August 1892, Wanderers is Chile's oldest football club...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
  Club Deportivo Universidad Católica
  Club Deportivo Universidad Católica is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, which plays in the Primera División.Universidad Católica is one of the most successful and popular football clubs in Chile and considered one of the three "big teams"...
  
  
• Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción
  Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción
  Club Deportivo Universidad de Concepción Futbol, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Concepción. The club was founded August 8, 1994 and plays in the top level of the Chilean football league...
  
  
• Universidad de Chile (football club)
  Universidad de Chile (football club)
  Club Universidad de Chile is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, which plays in the Primera División.The club was founded on May 24, 1927, as Club Deportivo Universitario. Universidad de Chile is the second most successful and popular football clubs in Chile, having won the...
  
  
• Unión Española
  Unión Española
  Club Unión Española S.A.D.P is a professional Chilean football based in Independencia, Santiago de Chile. Founded by a Spanish immigrants on 18 May 1897, Unión Española have participated in the top-tier of Chilean football for all of their existence but two seasons in the late '90s .Unión Española...
  
  

Universidad de Chile players

• Clarence Acuña
  Clarence Acuña
  Clárence Williams Acuña Donoso is a Chilean former professional football player. He played as a midfielder.- Chilean League :...
  
  
• Mauricio Aros
  Mauricio Aros
  Mauricio Fernando Aros Bahamóndez is a Chilean football player, who currently plays midfielder for Unión Temuco.-Career:He began his career in the youth squads of Deportes Concepción and debuted as a professional in 1995...
  
  
• Faustino Asprilla
  Faustino Asprilla
  Faustino Hernán "Tino" Asprilla Hinestroza is a former Colombian football player. He was known by his supporters in his home country as The Octopus for his voracious appetite...
  
  
• Richard Báez
  Richard Báez
  Richart Martín Báez Fernández is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a striker.-Career:Baez can be considered one of the most notable strikers in Olimpia's history. In 2002 he helped Olimpia conquer the Copa Libertadores de América scoring a crucial goal in the final. His best attribute was the...
  
  
• Carlos Campos
• Christian Castañeda
  Christian Castañeda
  Cristián Alberto Castañeda Vargas is a retired Chilean football player. He played for a few clubs, including Universidad de Chile and Everton Viña del Mar, his last club was Deportes Arica....
  
  
• Luis Eyzaguirre
  Luis Eyzaguirre
  Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva , also known as Fifo, is a former Chilean football player. He played right midfield in the Universidad de Chile football team known as the Ballet Azul, with which he won four national championships.He played in 1959 Copa América and in the FIFA World Cup he achieved...
  
  
• Ronald Fuentes
  Ronald Fuentes
  Ronald Hugo Fuentes Núñez was a Chilean football defender who was capped 50 times and scored 1 goal for the Chilean national team between 1991 and 2000, including four games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup....
  
  
• Patricio Galaz
  Patricio Galaz
  Patricio Sebastián Galaz Sepúlveda is a Chilean football forward. He last played for Ñublense in the Chilean Primera División....
  
  
• Marcos González
  Marcos González
  Marcos Andrés González Salazar is a Brazilian born Chilean professional football defender, who currently plays for Universidad de Chile....
  
  
• Luis Musrri
  Luis Musrri
  Luis Eduardo Musrri Saravia is a retired Chilean football player.He played mostly for Universidad de Chile as well as one season with Yunnan Hongta ....
  
  
• Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Olarra
  Rafael Andrés Olarra Guerrero is a footballer. He plays as a defender, currently in Unión Española.-Career:Olarra began his career in Audax Italiano...
  
  
• Sebastián Pardo
  Sebastián Pardo
  Sebastián Eduardo Pardo Campos, Pardo , is a former Chilean midfielder.Pardo began his career at Universidad de Chile, and joined Eredivisie's Feyenoord Rotterdam in 2002–03, debuting on September 10, 2002 against Excelsior Rotterdam , scoring his first Feyenoord in that match...
  
  
• Manuel Pellegrini
  Manuel Pellegrini
  Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti is a Chilean manager and former footballer. His current club is La Liga side Málaga CF.-Club career:...
  
  
• Mauricio Pinilla
  Mauricio Pinilla
  Mauricio Ricardo Pinilla Ferrera is a Chilean footballer who plays for U.S. Città di Palermo in Italy, as a centre forward....
  
  
• David Pizarro
  David Pizarro
  David Marcelo Pizarro Cortés is a Chilean football Midfielder. Pizarro. He also plays for the Chile national team, for which he won the Bronze medal at 2000 Summer Olympics, at Sydney...
  
  
• Jorge Quinteros
  Jorge Quinteros
  Jorge Polo Quinteros is a retired Argentine footballer.He has played for Argentinos Juniors in four different spells, his other clubs include RCD Mallorca in Spain, Talleres de Córdoba, San Lorenzo, Club Deportivo Universidad Católica in Chile, and Chacarita Juniors.The highlights of his career...
  
  
• Pedro Reyes
  Pedro Reyes
  See also, Pedro Reyes Pedro Antonio Reyes González is a former Chilean football defender....
  
  
• Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas
  Ricardo Francisco Rojas Trujillo is a Chilean footballer. He recently played for Colo-Colo in the Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División....
  
  
• Marcelo Salas
  Marcelo Salas
  José Marcelo Salas Melinao , better known as El Matador, Shileno or simply Marcelo Salas, is a former football player from Chile. He, along with world cup veterans, 3 time Best Player of America Elías Figueroa and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan forward Iván Zamorano, has been one of Chile's...
  
  
• Leonel Sánchez
  Leonel Sánchez
  Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros is a former professional football player.Regarded as one of Chile's most important players, Sánchez holds the record for most games played for Chile with 84 games and 23 goals between 1955 and 1968...
  
  
• Rodrigo Tello
  Rodrigo Tello
  Rodrigo Álvaro Tello Valenzuela is a Chilean footballer who plays with Eskişehirspor in Turkey.Left-footed, he usually operates as a left midfielder, but can also appear in the middle, and as an offensive left back...
  
  
• Rodrigo Valenzuela
  Rodrigo Valenzuela
  Rodrigo Ignacio Valenzuela Avilés is a Chilean football player.He is a midfielder who plays for Universidad Católica. He has spent his entire career in club teams in either Chile or Mexico...
  
  
• Marcelo Vega
  Marcelo Vega
  Francisco Marcelo Vega Cepeda is a retired Chilean football midfielder.He was capped 30 times and scored 1 goal for the Chilean national team between 1991 and 1998...
  
  

Chile at the Olympics

• Chile at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 38 competitors took part in 22 events in 6 sports.-Medalists:-Boxing:Men's Flyweight * José Turra Riviera...
  
  
• Chile at the 1936 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1936 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1932 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Chile at the 1948 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1948 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 53 competitors, 49 men and 4 women, took part in 31 events in 9 sports.-Basketball:Men's Team Competition*Preliminary Round * Defeated China...
  
  
• Chile at the 1952 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1952 Summer Olympics
  -Medalists:-Men's Team Competition:*Main Round * Defeated Cuba * Defeated Egypt * Lost to France *Final Round * Lost to Brazil * Lost to United States * Lost to Soviet Union...
  
  
• Chile at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  -Medalists:-Athletics:Men's Marathon*Eduardo Fontecilla — did not finish *Eduardo Silva — did not finish -Cycling:Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint*Hernán Masanés — 11th placeMen's 1.000m Time Trial...
  
  
• Chile at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  -References:*...
  
  
• Chile at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 14 competitors, all men, took part in 13 events in 6 sports.-Fencing:Three fencers, all men, represented Chile in 1964.Men's épée* Sergio Vergara* Sergio Jimenez* Aquilles Gloffka...
  
  
• Chile at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  -Boxing:Men's Middleweight * Miguel Villugron*# First Round — Lost to Jan van Ispelen , TKO-2-References:*...
  
  
• Chile at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 5000 meters*Edmundo Warnke* Heat — 13:43.6 -Boxing:Men's Flyweight * Martín Vargas* First Round — Bye* Second Round — Lost to Calixto Perez , 0:5-Rowing:...
  
  
• Chile at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Seven competitors, all men, took part in eight events in four sports.-Athletics:Men's 10.000 metres* Edmundo Warnke* Heat — 28:43.63 -Cycling:...
  
  
• Chile at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.The nation returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.-Athletics:Men's 5,000 metres* Omar Aguilar...
  
  
• Chile at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.-Medalists:-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Carlos Moreno* Heat – 10.70 Men's 200 metres*Carlos Moreno* Heat – 22.13...
  
  
• Chile at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's Marathon* Jaime Ojeda — 2:28.39 Men's Pole Vault*Tómas RietherMen's Shot Put* Gert Weil* Qualification — 19.41 m -Boxing:Men's Middleweight*Ricardo Araneda...
  
  
• Chile at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-Athletics:Men's 200 metres*Sebastián KeitelMen's Marathon* Marcelo Barrientos — 2:31.05 Men's Shot Put*Gert WeilWomen's Marathon...
  
  
• Chile at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  -Medalists:-Archery:Chile sent one archer to its debut Olympic archery competition. She lost her first match.-Men's competition:Men's 200m*Ricardo Roach* Round 1 — 21.20 Men's 10,000m*Mauricio Díaz...
  
  
• Chile at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Greek alphabet meant that it was the last independent nation before the host nation in the Parade of Nations ....
  
  
• Chile at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Chile at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  - Alpine skiing:7 of Chile's 9 athletes in Turin participated in alpine skiing, including the country's top finisher, Noelle Barahona, who was 30th in the women's combined...
  
  

Olympic tennis players of Chile

• Fernando González
  Fernando González
  ----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
  
  
• Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried , nicknamed Vampiro , is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist...
  
  
• Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Ríos
  Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed El Chino and El zurdo de Vitacura , he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No...
  
  

Chilean sportspeople

Chilean athletes

• Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens
  Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...
  
  
• Sebastián Keitel
  Sebastián Keitel
  Sebastián Keitel Bianchi is a Chilean sprinter who competed mostly in the 200 metres. He was coached by renowned Chilean coach Pedro Soto Acuna, who has since been living in Singapore....
  
  
• Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza
  Manuel Plaza Reyes was an athlete from Chile, who won the country's first ever Olympic medal by finishing second at the Men's Marathon in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He clocked 2 hours, 33 minutes and 23 seconds.-References:*...
  
  
• Gert Weil
  Gert Weil
  Gert Michael Weil is a retired Chilean shot putter of German ancestry, who dominated the sport on the South American scene during the 1980s and early 1990s. His best performance at a global event was a sixth place at the 1988 Olympic Games...
  
  

Chilean equestrians

• Alberto Larraguibel
  Alberto Larraguibel
  Colonel Alberto Larraguibel Morales was a Chilean Army officer of Basque descent born in Angol, Chile. He remains the record holder for Puissance on Horseback, one of the longest-running unbroken sport records in history -- years as of .Then-Captain Larraguibel broke the record for the...
  
  
• César Mendoza
  César Mendoza
  General César Leonidas Mendoza Durán was a member of the Government Junta which ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the country-wide police force, the Carabineros de Chile....
  
  
• Oscar Cristi
  Oscar Cristi
  Oscar Cristi Gallo was a Chilean police officer and a successful show jumping rider from the late 1940s until the late 1960s....
  
  
• Gabriel Donoso
  Gabriel Donoso
  Gabriel Donoso Rosselot was a Chilean polo player, considered one of Chile's best polo players of all time. He was the only Chilean polo player to ever reach 9-goals in handicap.. He was born in Santiago, Chile....
  
  
• José A. Santos
• Ramón Cardemil
  Ramón Cardemil
  Ramón Cardemil Moraga was a Chilean rodeo horse rider, considered one of Chile's best rodeo riders of all time. He and Juan Carlos Loaiza are the riders who have won the most titles in the Chilean National Rodeo Championship.-National Rodeo Championships:-References:...
  
  

Airlines of Chile

• Aero Cardal
• Aerovías DAP
  Aerovias DAP
  Aerovías DAP is an airline based in Punta Arenas, Chile. It operates scheduled and charterservices in the southern Patagonia area, Antarctic continent and also operates flights on behalf of the state-owned oil company, ENAP. Its main baseIs Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International Airport, Punta...
  
  
• Alpine Air Express Chile
• LAN Airlines
  LAN Airlines
  LAN Airlines S.A. is an airline based in Santiago, Chile. LAN is currently positioned amongst the largest airlines in Latin America, serving Latin America, United States, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Europe. It is a member of the Oneworld airline alliance...
  
  
• LAN Chile Cargo
  LAN Chile Cargo
  LAN Cargo S.A. is a cargo airline based in Santiago, Chile. It is the cargo subsidiary of LAN Airlines operating cargo flights in South America and North America. Its main base is Miami International Airport.- History :...
  
  
• LANExpress
• Ladeco
  Ladeco
  Ladeco was a former Chilean airline; Ladeco is the acronym of "Línea Aérea Del Cobre" or the "Airline of Copper," in reference to the principal Chilean export.-History:...
  
  
• Sky Airline
  Sky Airline
  Sky Airline is an airline based at Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile. It is the second largest airline in the country behind rival LAN Airlines, and mostly relies on domestic services.- History :...
  
  

Visitor attractions in Chile

Trains

• Biotren
  Biotren
  The similar system for Metro of Concepción or Biotren is basic at grade urban commuter rail system that covers a big part of the city of Concepción, capital of the region of Bío-Bío, also known as Gran Concepción or Concepción Metropolitan Area, both synonyms of "city" according to the urbanistic...
  
  
• FC Caleta Coloso a Aguas Blancas
  FC Caleta Coloso a Aguas Blancas
  The Ferrocarril Caleta Coloso a Aguas Blancas was a narrow gauge railway operating in the Antofagasta region of Chile, and was built to serve the nitrate workings southeast of Antofagasta. Opened in 1902 it was taken over by the Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia in 1909. Never metre-gauged...
  
  
• FC de Junin
  FC de Junin
  The Ferrocarril de Junin was a narrow gauge railway operating in northern Chile, and was built to serve the nitrate workings. The terminal of the railway was located at the port of Junin, and the railway was opened in 1894. The first section of the railway consisted of a 1km incline plane, rising...
  
  
• Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
  Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
  The Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia is a private railway operating in the northern provinces of Chile. It is notable in that it was one of the earliest railways built to the gauge of , with a route that climbed from sea level to over , while handling goods traffic totaling near 2 million tons...
  
  

Aviation in Chile

Aircraft manufactured by Chile

Chilean aircraft 1990-1999

LAN Airlines

• ABSA - Aerolinhas Brasileiras
  ABSA - Aerolinhas Brasileiras
  ABSA Cargo Airline is a cargo airline based in Campinas, Brazil. It operates scheduled services within Latin America and between Brazil and the United States, as well as charter services...
  
  
• LAN Airlines
  LAN Airlines
  LAN Airlines S.A. is an airline based in Santiago, Chile. LAN is currently positioned amongst the largest airlines in Latin America, serving Latin America, United States, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Europe. It is a member of the Oneworld airline alliance...
  
  
• LAN Airlines destinations
  LAN Airlines destinations
  LAN Airlines serves the following destinations as of May 2011, including destinations served by LANExpress. For destinations solely served by other subsidiaries, see LAN Perú, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador and AIRES....
  
  
• LAN Argentina
  LAN Argentina
  LAN Argentina is an airline based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is an affiliate of LAN Airlines and operates scheduled domestic services from Buenos Aires to Bariloche, Córdoba, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, Mendoza, Puerto Iguazú, Neuquén, Río Gallegos, Salta, San Juan, Tucumán and Ushuaia, ...
  
  
• LAN Chile Cargo
  LAN Chile Cargo
  LAN Cargo S.A. is a cargo airline based in Santiago, Chile. It is the cargo subsidiary of LAN Airlines operating cargo flights in South America and North America. Its main base is Miami International Airport.- History :...
  
  
• LAN Dominicana
  LAN Dominicana
  LAN Dominicana , formerly Líneas Aéreas Nacionales de Navegación Dominicana SA was an airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It operated international services.-History:...
  
  
• LAN Ecuador
  LAN Ecuador
  LAN Ecuador is a subsidiary of LAN Airlines, based in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It operates scheduled passenger services out of Guayaquil and to a lesser extent Quito using leased LAN aircraft.-History:LAN Ecuador was established in July 2002 and started operations on 28 April 2003...
  
  
• LAN Peru
  LAN Peru
  LAN Perú S.A. is an airline based in Lima, Peru. It is a subsidiary of Chilean publicly-traded company LAN Airlines , which owns 49% of the airline. It operates scheduled domestic and international services. Its main base is on the grounds of Jorge Chávez International Airport...
  
  
• LANExpress

Chile stubs

• ARTV (Chile)
  ARTV (Chile)
  ARTV is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile. It mostly airs cultural programming, such as the popular TV shows Endogao, Muchachas, and Caracas.See also List of Chilean television channels-External links:*...
  
  
• Abortion in Chile
  Abortion in Chile
  Abortion in Chile is illegal without exception. The Chilean abortion law is considered one of the most restrictive in the world.-Legal background:...
  
  
• Aero Cardal
• Almirante Condell
  Almirante Condell
  The Almirante Condell was a destroyer which served with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was the second ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name....
  
  
• Almirante Lynch
  Almirante Lynch
  The Almirante Lynch was a destroyer in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was named after Admiral Patricio Lynch, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific....
  
  
• Alpine Air Express Chile
• Arena Santiago
  Arena Santiago
  Movistar Arena, formerly known as Arena Santiago is a multipurpose theater located in Santiago, Chile, located inside O'Higgins Park, in downtown Santiago...
  
  
• Baltimore Crisis
  Baltimore Crisis
  The Baltimore Crisis was a diplomatic incident that took place between Chile and the United States, during the Chilean Civil War, as result of the growing American influence in Pacific Coast region of Latin America in the 1890s. It remains a nodal event because it marked a dramatic shift in United...
  
  
• First Battle of Cancha Rayada
  First Battle of Cancha Rayada
  The first battle of Cancha Rayada, sometimes termed the 'Disaster' or 'Surprise of Cancha Rayada', took place on 29 March, 1814, during the War of Chilean Independence.-Background:...
  
  
• Second Battle of Cancha Rayada
• Battle of Pisagua
  Battle of Pisagua
  The Battle of Pisagua , was a landing operation of the War of the Pacific, fought on November 2, 1879, between Chile and the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru. The Chilean army commanded by Erasmo Escala, supported by the Chilean Fleet, launched an amphibious assault, led by Gen...
  
  
• Battle of San Francisco
  Battle of San Francisco
  The Battle of San Francisco, also known as Battle of Dolores, fought on November 19, 1879, was the third battle of the Tarapacá Campaign in the War of the Pacific, after Pisagua and Germania...
  
  
• Battle of Tarapacá
  Battle of Tarapacá
  The Battle of Tarapacá occurred on November 27, 1879 during the Tarapacá Campaign of the War of the Pacific. A Chilean column of 2,300 soldiers led by General Luis Arteaga recklessly attacked an outnumbering Peruvian contingent of 4,500 troops at Tarapacá commanded by Gen Juan Buendía, resulting in...
  
  
• Battle of Topáter
  Battle of Topáter
  The Battle of Topáter was fought on March 23, 1879 between Chile and Bolivia, and was the first of the War of the Pacific.The Chileans were taking possession of the Antofagasta province, at that time a part of Bolivia. The Bolivian troops, quite few in number, decided to make a stand in the town...
  
  
• Slit throats case
• Bombardment of Callao
  Bombardment of Callao
  This article is for the Bombardment of Callao during the War of the Pacific, for the conflict during the Chincha Islands War see Battle of Callao.-The blockade:...
  
  
• CDtv
  CDtv
  Camara de Diputados Televisión or CDtv is a public owned cable TV channel in Chile. It broadcasts the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile live.-External links:...
  
  
• Canal 13 (Chile)
  Canal 13 (Chile)
  Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...
  
  
• Canal del Fútbol (Chile)
  Canal del Fútbol (Chile)
  Canal del Fútbol, also known by its initials CDF, is a privately owned cable TV channel of Chile. It launched in 2003 and is owned by CDF S.A.-History:...
  
  
• Carretera Austral
  Carretera Austral
  The Carretera Austral , formerly known as Carretera General Augusto Pinochet, is the name given to Chile's Route 7. The highway runs about from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins through rural Patagonia....
  
  
• Cetacean Conservation Center
  Cetacean Conservation Center
  The Cetacean Conservation Center is a Chilean NGO dedicated to the conservation of cetaceans and other marine mammals that inhabit the coastal waters of Chile...
  
  
• Chile at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 38 competitors took part in 22 events in 6 sports.-Medalists:-Boxing:Men's Flyweight * José Turra Riviera...
  
  
• Chile at the 1936 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1936 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1932 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Chile at the 1948 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1948 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 53 competitors, 49 men and 4 women, took part in 31 events in 9 sports.-Basketball:Men's Team Competition*Preliminary Round * Defeated China...
  
  
• Chile at the 1952 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1952 Summer Olympics
  -Medalists:-Men's Team Competition:*Main Round * Defeated Cuba * Defeated Egypt * Lost to France *Final Round * Lost to Brazil * Lost to United States * Lost to Soviet Union...
  
  
• Chile at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  -Medalists:-Athletics:Men's Marathon*Eduardo Fontecilla — did not finish *Eduardo Silva — did not finish -Cycling:Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint*Hernán Masanés — 11th placeMen's 1.000m Time Trial...
  
  
• Chile at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  -References:*...
  
  
• Chile at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 14 competitors, all men, took part in 13 events in 6 sports.-Fencing:Three fencers, all men, represented Chile in 1964.Men's épée* Sergio Vergara* Sergio Jimenez* Aquilles Gloffka...
  
  
• Chile at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  -Boxing:Men's Middleweight * Miguel Villugron*# First Round — Lost to Jan van Ispelen , TKO-2-References:*...
  
  
• Chile at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 5000 meters*Edmundo Warnke* Heat — 13:43.6 -Boxing:Men's Flyweight * Martín Vargas* First Round — Bye* Second Round — Lost to Calixto Perez , 0:5-Rowing:...
  
  
• Chile at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Seven competitors, all men, took part in eight events in four sports.-Athletics:Men's 10.000 metres* Edmundo Warnke* Heat — 28:43.63 -Cycling:...
  
  
• Chile at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Chile competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.The nation returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.-Athletics:Men's 5,000 metres* Omar Aguilar...
  
  
• Chile at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Chile at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's Marathon* Jaime Ojeda — 2:28.39 Men's Pole Vault*Tómas RietherMen's Shot Put* Gert Weil* Qualification — 19.41 m -Boxing:Men's Middleweight*Ricardo Araneda...
  
  
• Chile at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Chile at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Chile participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.Chile entered two athletes in the following sports:*Alpine skiing: 2 male-Medalists:-External links:**...
  
  
• Chilean Council of State
  Chilean Council of State
  The Chilean Council of State was a body set up by the junta of General Augusto Pinochet to produce a constitution in order to legitimise military rule. The constitution which it produced was approved in a 1980 plebiscite....
  
  
• Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre
  Almirante Latorre, named after Juan José Latorre, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Chilean Navy . She was the first of a planned two-ship class that would respond to earlier warship purchases by other South American countries...
  
  
• Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
  Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
  The Chilean cruiser Chacabuco was a cruiser in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II.The Chacabuco was a Chilean cruiser built by Amstrong Shipyard entered service in 1902, modernized in 1941 and scraped 1947....
  
  
• Chilean destroyer Aldea (1928)
• Chilean pharmaceutical policy
  Chilean pharmaceutical policy
  The Chilean Pharmaceutical Policy was an attempt in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce a rational national pharmaceuticals policy. Chile was perhaps the first country in the world to introduce the concept of a limited number of essential drugs....
  
  
• Chilean presidential election, 1925
  Chilean presidential election, 1925
  A presidential election was held in Chile on October 24, 1925. It was the first direct election of a President in the country's history, as mandated by the 1925 Constitution, promulgated on September 18 of that year. Presidents were previously elected by a group of directly elected...
  
  
• Chilean rodeo
  Chilean rodeo
  Rodeo is a traditional sport in Chile. It was declared the national sport in 1962. It has since thrived, especially in the more rural areas of the country. Chilean rodeo is different from the rodeo found in North America...
  
  
• Chilevisión
  Chilevisión
  CHV, also known as Chilevisión, is the third oldest television station in Chile. Formerly called Teleonce and RTU , this TV station was owned by University of Chile, a Chilean state university...
  
  
• Compañía Chilena de Televisión
  Compañía Chilena de Televisión
  La Red, also known as La Red Chilena de Televisión, is a private TV channel in Chile. It was previously owned by Television Azteca S.A. De C.V. but it was later sold to Mexican businessman Remigio Ángel González. Previously called La Red , it mainly airs Hollywood blockbusters...
  
  
• Corral
• Costanera Center
  Costanera Center
  Costanera Center is an ongoing development and construction of four skyscrapers being built in the Sanhattan financial district of Santiago, Chile by Cencosud...
  
  
• Cruz del Tercer Milenio
  Cruz del Tercer Milenio
  Cruz del Tercer Milenio is a 83 metres tall, 40 metres wide, concrete cross located atop El Vigía hill in Coquimbo, Chile. Construction began in 1999 and it was completed in 2001. It sits 197 metres above sea level. It is considered the tallest monument in South America.-External...
  
  
• DINA
• Diocese of La Santísima Concepción
  Diocese of La Santísima Concepción
  Diocese of La Santísima Concepción is the old name of the Archdiocese of Concepción, Chile....
  
  
• Disaster of Rancagua
  Disaster of Rancagua
  The Battle of Rancagua, also known as the Disaster of Rancagua occurred in October 1814 when the Spanish under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces....
  
  
• Distribución y Servicio
  Distribución y Servicio
  Distribución y Servicio is a Chilean company that operates several businesses, including Líder hypermarkets and Ekono supermarkets. Since 2009 the main controller is Wal-mart and the founder family Ibañez.-External links:***...
  
  
• El Siglo (Chile)
• Entel
• Estadio Carlos Dittborn
  Estadio Carlos Dittborn
  Estadio Carlos Dittborn is a multi-purpose stadium in Arica, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 17,786 people and was built in 1962 as a venue for the 1962 World Cup, which was hosted by Chile...
  
  
• Estadio El Cobre
  Estadio El Cobre
  Estadio El Cobre is a multi-use stadium in El Salvador, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportes Cobresal. The stadium holds 20,752 people, which is more than twice the population of El Salvador, and was built in 1980....
  
  
• Estadio El Teniente
  Estadio El Teniente
  Estadio El Teniente is a multi-purpose stadium in Rancagua, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 14,450 people and was built in 1945 with the name Braden Copper Company Stadium . The stadium hosted several matches of World Cup Soccer in 1962...
  
  
• Estadio Fiscal
  Estadio Fiscal
  Estadio Fiscal de Talca is a multi-use public stadium in Talca, Chile. It is currently used mostly for association football matches and is the home stadium of Club Social de Deportes Rangers. The stadium holds 17,020 people and was built in 1937....
  
  
• Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso
  Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso
  Estadio Municipal Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso is a multi-purpose stadium in Coquimbo, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the home stadium of Coquimbo Unido. The former stadium was inaugurated on July 1, 1970 and hold 17,750 people....
  
  
• Estadio La Portada
  Estadio La Portada
  Estadio La Portada is a multi-use stadium in La Serena, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club de Deportes La Serena. The stadium holds 14,000 people and was built in 1952....
  
  
• Estadio Las Higueras
  Estadio Las Higueras
  Estadio Las Higueras was a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile. It was the home ground of the Club Deportivo Huachipato until the current Estadio CAP opened in 2009. The stadium held 10,000 people, was built in 1960 and was demolished in 2008....
  
  
• Estadio Monumental David Arellano
  Estadio Monumental David Arellano
  Estadio Monumental is a football stadium in Santiago, Chile. Completed in 1989, the stadium has a current spectator capacity of 45,000. Originally, the stadium could hold up to 65,000 spectators but that was dramatically reduced for security reasons...
  
  
• Estadio Municipal de Calama
  Estadio Municipal de Calama
  Estadio Municipal de Calama is a multi-use stadium in Calama, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Cobreloa. The stadium holds 13,000 people and was built in 1952....
  
  
• Estadio Municipal de Concepción
  Estadio Municipal de Concepción
  Estadio Municipal de Concepcion is a multi-purpose stadium in Concepción, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1962 and has a capacity of 35,000 people....
  
  
• Estadio Municipal de La Florida
  Estadio Municipal de La Florida
  Estadio Bicentenario Municipal de La Florida is a multi-purpose stadium, located in La Florida, one of the southern areas of Santiago, Chile. It is used mostly for football matches, because it is the home stadium of the Chilean football team Audax Club Sportivo Italiano. The stadium was built in...
  
  
• Estadio Playa Ancha
  Estadio Playa Ancha
  Estadio Regional Chiledeportes, formerly known as Estadio Playa Ancha, is a multi-purpose stadium in Valparaíso, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Santiago Wanderers. The stadium holds 18,500 people and was built in 1931....
  
  
• Estadio Regional de Antofagasta
  Estadio Regional de Antofagasta
  Estadio Regional de Antofagasta is a multi-use stadium in Antofagasta, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club de Deportes Antofagasta. The stadium holds 26,339 people and was built in 1964....
  
  
• Estadio Regional de Chinquihue
  Estadio Regional de Chinquihue
  Estadio Regional de Chinquihue is a multi-use stadium in Puerto Montt, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club de Deportes Puerto Montt. The stadium holds 11,300 people and was built in 1982. The stadium is currently undergoing reconstruction to a...
  
  
• Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
  Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
  Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo is a multi-purpose stadium, in Santiago, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportivo Universidad Católica...
  
  
• Estadio Santa Laura
  Estadio Santa Laura
  Estadio Santa Laura is a football stadium in Independencia, Santiago, Chile. It is the home stadium of Unión Española. The stadium holds 22,000 people and was built in 1922. It is a multi - use stadium , also used for concerts. It is rarely sold out for soccer matches and attendance is rarely...
  
  
• Estadio Santiago Bueras
  Estadio Santiago Bueras
  Estadio Santiago Bueras is a multi-use stadium in Maipu, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Magallanes. The stadium holds 5,000 people and was built in 1984....
  
  
• Estadio Sausalito
  Estadio Sausalito
  Estadio Sausalito is a multi-purpose stadium in Viña del Mar, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of CD Everton. The stadium holds 18,037 people and was built in 1929...
  
  
• Etc...TV
  Etc...TV
  Etc...TV is a Chilean cable TV channel currently owned by MEGA. The channel's slogan is "Todo pasa por Etc..." . Launched in 1996, the company was previously owned by Telefilms Ltda...
  
  
• Fatherland and Liberty
  Fatherland and Liberty
  The Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front was a nationalist and authoritarian political and paramilitary group...
  
  
• Gondwana (Chilean band)
• Guallatiri
  Guallatiri
  Guallatiri is one of the most active volcanoes in northern Chile. It is just west of the border with Bolivia and at the southwestern end of the Nevados de Quimsachata. It is a symmetrical 6,071 m high ice-clad stratovolcano...
  
  
• Guaraculén
  Guaraculén
  Guaraculén was a large hacienda and hamlet, located near Villa Alegre, in the current province of Linares, in the Maule Region of Chile.Guaraculén was the birthplace of the famed Jesuit Priest, naturalist and cronist Juan Ignacio Molina , who was forced to leave Chile in 1768 when the Jesuits were...
  
  
• Huaso
  Huaso
  A huaso is a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to the Argentinian, Rio Grande do Sul's or Uruguayan gaucho, the American cowboy, the Australian stockman, and Mexican vaquero and charro. A female huaso is called a huasa, although the term china is far more commonly used for his wife...
  
  
• Huilliche
  Huilliche
  The Huilliche is an ethnic group of Chile, belonging to the Mapuche culture. They live in mountain valleys in an area south of Toltén River and on Chiloé Archipelago...
  
  
• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.-Geography:...
  
  
• Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto
  Ignacio Carrera Pinto is a Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific.He was born in Santiago, Chile; the son of José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla, of Basque descent, and of Emilia Pinto Benavente. He was the grandson of Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo, one of Chile's independence heroes...
  
  
• Instituto Nacional
  Instituto Nacional
  Instituto Nacional , founded on August 10, 1813 by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera , officially Liceo Ex A-0 - Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school...
  
  
• Jaime Guzmán
  Jaime Guzmán
  Jaime Jorge Guzmán Errázuriz was a Chilean lawyer and senator, member and doctrinal founder of the conservative Independent Democrat Union party. He opposed Marxist President Salvador Allende and later became a close advisor to dictator Augusto Pinochet. A professor of Constitutional Law, he...
  
  
• Kudai
  Kudai
  Kudai was a Latin Grammy Award-Nominated Chilean pop group was founded in Santiago, Chile. Its original members were Tomás Cañas Manzi, Pablo Holman Concha, Nicole Natalino and Bárbara Sepúlveda Labra. In 2006 Nicole Natalino left the group citing personal reasons, and was replaced by Ecuadorian...
  
  
• La Negra Antofagasta
  La Negra Antofagasta
  La Negra is a small industrial complex east of Antofagasta, Chile after crossing the coastal mountain range. Among La Negra industries, the two major ones are Altonorte, a copper smelter refinery, and a cement plant, Inacesa...
  
  
• La Prensa de Curicó
  La Prensa de Curicó
  La Prensa de Curicó , is a daily newspaper published in Curicó and owned by Empresa Periodística Curicó LTDA. This headquarters are located in Merced 373 Curicó, Chile. The newspaper was founded on November 13, 1898.-External links:...
  
  
• La Tercera
  La Tercera
  La Tercera , formerly known as La Tercera de la Hora , is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is El Mercurios closest competitor....
  
  
• Las Últimas Noticias
  Las Últimas Noticias
  Las Últimas Noticias is a Chilean, daily middle market tabloid newspaper owned by El Mercurio SAP....
  
  
• Liberal Party of Chile
• List of Chilean companies
• Los Ríos Region
  Los Ríos Region
  The XIV Los Ríos Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. Its capital is Valdivia. Pop. 356,396 . It began to operate as region on October 2, 2007. It was created by subdividing the Los Lagos Region in southern Chile...
  
  
• Lucybell
  Lucybell
  Lucybell is a Chilean rock band formed by four students from the Universidad de Chile's Faculty of Art in 1991, in Santiago de Chile. The original four members were:* Francisco González: drums, bass, percussion, keyboards...
  
  
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
  Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
  The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front , also known as El Frente Patriótico, or simply El Frente, is a left-wing urban guerrilla movement in Chile, named for a figure in Chile's independence movement, Manuel Rodríguez. The group was founded on September 14, 1983 as an armed resistance against the...
  
  
• Medialuna
  Medialuna
  A medialuna is crescent-shaped corral used for rodeos, the official sport in Chile. They are generally 64–66 meters in diameter...
  
  
• National Women's Service
  National Women's Service
  The National Women's Service , or SERNAM is a public service in Chile, a functionally decentralized organization, with its own funding, which is part of the cabinet-level Ministry of Planning and Cooperation under the President of Chile, created January 3, 1991 by the Law N° 19,023, with the goal...
  
  
• Operation Colombo
  Operation Colombo
  Operation Colombo was an operation undertaken by the DINA in 1975. The operation involved the disappearance of political dissidents. At least 119 people are alleged to have been abducted and later killed by state forces in the secret operation...
  
  
• Party for Democracy
  Party for Democracy
  The Party for Democracy is a political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation. It was founded in December 1987 by Ricardo Lagos, who aimed at forming a legal social democratic party . The party continued to function after the defeat of Pinochet...
  
  
• Picunche
  Picunche
  The Picunche , also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a mapudungun speaking Chilean people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas...
  
  
• Plaza de la Ciudadanía
  Plaza de la Ciudadanía
  Plaza de la Ciudadanía is a public square located in the southern façade of the Palacio de La Moneda . It used to be part of the grass garden and parking area of the Palace....
  
  
• Putagán
  Putagán
  Putagán is a village in the Chilean municipality of Villa Alegre, Province of Linares, Maule Region. Pop. 622. Altitude 112. Time zone UTC-4. Located 292 Kilometers south from Santiago...
  
  
• Radio Cooperativa
  Radio Cooperativa
  Radio Cooperativa is a radio station in Chile, based in Providencia. It is operated by Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones S.A.. The station is notable for opposing the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship and denouncing its human rights violations....
  
  
• Red Televisiva Megavisión
  Red Televisiva Megavisión
  MEGA, formerly known as Red Televisiva Megavisión, is the first private TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 27 for HDTV.Among the many TV shows broadcast on MEGA are:...
  
  
• Rettig Report
  Rettig Report
  The Rettig Report, officially The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report, is a 1991 report by a commission designated by then President Patricio Aylwin encompassing human rights abuses resulting in death or disappearance that occurred in Chile during the years of military rule...
  
  
• Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
  Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
  Rodrigo Andrés Rojas De Negri was a young photographer who was burned alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.-Background:...
  
  
• Rojasfilms
  Rojasfilms
  Rojasfilms is an award-winning production services company located in Santiago, Chile....
  
  
• S. Cofre
  S. Cofre
  S. Cofré is or was formally an astronomer of the University of Chile. In 1968, he co-discovered the asteroid Gilhutton from the Cerro El Roble astronomical observatory.- References :...
  
  
• Saavedra, Chile
• San Fernando, Chile
  San Fernando, Chile
  San Fernando is the capital of the province of Colchagua, in central Chile, and the second most populated urban center of the O'Higgins Region. Located close to the Tinguiririca River in a fertile valley, San Fernando sits 1,112 feet above sea level...
  
  
• Santiago College
  Santiago College
  Fundación Educacional Santiago College is a private educational institution founded in 1880 and located in Providencia, Santiago de Chile. It is a great school and one of the best schools in Chile-History:...
  
  
• Serrano class destroyer
  Serrano class destroyer
  The Serrano class was a series of six destroyers which served with Chilean Navy during World War II. Chile ordered the Serrano class from John I. Thornycroft & Company in the United Kingdom to enhance the Chilean Navy's ability to patrol its extensive coastline...
  
  
• Sex and Pornography Day
  Sex and Pornography Day
  Sex and Pornography Day is held in Santiago, Chile, on January 5. The day was established in 2003 by Chilean pornographic film director Leonardo Barrera. Barrera intended for the day to be observed annually.-External links:**...
  
  
• TV Senado
  TV Senado
  TV Senado is a Brazilian television network responsible for broadcasting activity from the Brazilian Senate. It was created in 1996 by the Brazilian Senate.The channel broadcasts 24h from the Senate.-External links:*...
  
  
• TVU (Chile)
• Telecanal
  Telecanal
  Telecanal is a private owned TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on VHF channel 2. It mostly airs American films and TV series, and some original entertainment TV shows.-Controversy:...
  
  
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• The Grange School, Santiago
  The Grange School, Santiago
  The Grange School is a private co-ed school in La Reina, Santiago, Chile with an enrollment of about 1,800 and over 300 employees. It is known for a strong sports program in addition to high academic standards. It was founded June 4, 1928, by John A.S. Jackson —an anglo-Chilean born in Valparaíso...
  
  
• The House of the Spirits (film)
  The House of the Spirits (film)
  The House of the Spirits is a 1993 German-Danish-Portuguese dramatic film starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, María Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jan Niklas...
  
  
• The Road to Maipo
  The Road to Maipo
  The Road to Maipo describes the events in the process of Chilean Independence between the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada and the Battle of Maipú in 1818.March 20 am...
  
  
• Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
  Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
  Tierra del Fuego Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena . It includes the Chilean part of the main island of Tierra del Fuego. There is also an Argentine province of the same name, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina...
  
  
• Tocopilla
  Tocopilla
  Tocopilla is a city and commune in the Antofagasta Region, in the north of Chile. It is the capital of the province that bears the same name.Tocopilla celebrates its anniversary on September 29 every year with a big show the day before, which includes a parade down the main street of the city, food...
  
  
• UCV TV
  UCV TV
  Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, UCV TV, is the oldest TV channel of Chile. Founded in 1957 , it currently airs in Santiago on channel 5. Its headquarters are in Viña del Mar, Chile where it broadcasts on channel 4 VHF. Also it owns VHF stations in La...
  
  
• Unidad Anti-Terrorista
  Unidad Anti-Terrorista
  The Chilean Counter-Terrorism Unit or UAT is a tactical unit of the Chilean Air Force designated to handle terrorist threats....
  
  
• Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  Alberto Hurtado University is a Jesuit university located in downtown Santiago. Established in 1997, the university was created from the merger of three separate institutes,Instituto Latinoamericano de Doctrina y Estudios Sociales , the Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo de la Educación , and the...
  
  
• Universidad Arturo Prat
  Universidad Arturo Prat
  Universidad Arturo Prat is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.This university was created in 1981 from the former campus of the University of Chile in Iquique....
  
  
• Universidad Austral de Chile
  Universidad Austral de Chile
  Southern University of Chile is a research university in Chile based in Valdivia although it has some institutions and careers in Puerto Montt. Founded by decree on 7 September 1954 it is one of the eight original Chilean Traditional Universities...
  
  
• Universidad Católica de Temuco
  Universidad Católica de Temuco
  Temuco Catholic University is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities....
  
  
• Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
  Catholic University of the Holy Conception is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.The University...
  
  
• Universidad Católica del Maule
  Universidad Católica del Maule
  Catholic University of Maule is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.This university was created in 1991, in what was the former Talca campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile....
  
  
• Universidad Católica del Norte
  Universidad Católica del Norte
  Católica del Norte University is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. It is located in Antofagasta, Chile.Católica del Norte University was founded on May 31, 1956.The current rector is Misael Camus Ibacache....
  
  
• Universidad Gabriela Mistral
  Universidad Gabriela Mistral
  -External links:* * http://www.ugm.cl...
  
  
• Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
  Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
  The Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences is a university specialized in Pedagogy and located in the commune of Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.-History:The university was created in 1889 as the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile...
  
  
• Universidad San Sebastián
  Universidad San Sebastián
  Saint Sebastian University is a private Chilean university with its headquarters located in Concepción. The university also has faculties in Santiago, Valdivia, Osorno and Puerto Montt. It was founded in 1989, and received formal state recognition as a university in 2001.-External links:*...
  
  
• Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
  Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
  Metropolitan University of Technology is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad de Antofagasta
  Universidad de Antofagasta
  University of Antofagasta is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación
  Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación
  University for the Arts, Sciences, and Communication is a Chilean university. It is a for-profit institution owned by the Apollo Group.- External links :*...
  
  
• Universidad de La Frontera
  Universidad de La Frontera
  University of the Frontier or UFRO is a university in Temuco Chile. It is a derivative university and part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. UFRO boasts a student body with a variety of abilities and from a variety of backgrounds, many of Mapuche descent....
  
  
• Universidad de La Serena
  Universidad de La Serena
  The University of La Serena is a university in Chile located 350 miles north of Santiago. The university has five campuses: three in La Serena, one in Coquimbo, and one in Ovalle...
  
  
• Universidad de Los Lagos
  Universidad de Los Lagos
  The University of Los Lagos is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. It currently operates two campuses: the main campus in Osorno, and another in Valdivia and Puerto Montt, the regional capital....
  
  
• Universidad de Magallanes
  Universidad de Magallanes
  University of Magallanes is a university in the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The University of Magallanes was established in 1981 during the neoliberal reforms of the Chile's military regime as the successor of Universidad Técnica del...
  
  
• Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación
  Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación
  University of Educational Sciences "Playa Ancha" is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities, belonging to rector's Council. It was founded 1948 in Vaparaíso as "Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile", with the intention to...
  
  
• Universidad de Talca
  Universidad de Talca
  The University of Talca is a Chilean university located in the cities of Talca, Curicó, and Santiago. It is a derivative university, one of the most important universities of the southern-central region of Chile, and it's part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- History :The Universidad de...
  
  
• Universidad de Tarapacá
  Universidad de Tarapacá
  University of Tarapacá is a university in Arica, Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The university publishes Revista Chungará a journal on anthropology and archaeology.-External links:...
  
  
• Universidad de Valparaíso
  Universidad de Valparaíso
  University of Valparaíso is a university in Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.-External links:*...
  
  
• Universidad del Bío-Bío
  Universidad del Bío-Bío
  University of Bío-Bío is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.- University of Bío-Bío :The University of Bío-Bío is heir of the tradition of state and public higher education in the Bío Bío Region...
  
  
• University of Santiago, Chile
  University of Santiago, Chile
  The University of Santiago of Chile is one of the oldest public universities in Chile.The institution was born as Escuela de Artes y Oficios in 1849, under the government of Manuel Bulnes...
  
  
• VTR Globalcom
  VTR Globalcom
  VTR Banda Ancha S.A. is a Chilean telecommunications company. It is the country's largest provider of cable television with 890,345 subscribers . It is also the second largest provider of...
  
  
• Via X
  Via X
  Via X is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile. It airs mostly rock music videos, mainly focusing in Chilean indie subculture. It airs talk shows and other programmes as well, but mainly centered in music. Its sister station is Zona Latina which airs Spanish music videos. It is owned by Edu...
  
  
• Visviri
  Visviri
  Visviri is a Chilean hamlet at the northern end of the country and the capital of the General Lagos commune in Parinacota Province, Arica and Parinacota Region. It is notable for being Chile's northernmost populated area. Pop. 265 , and for being near border of three countries of Bolivia, Peru and...
  
  
• Williamson-Balfour Company
  Williamson-Balfour Company
  The Williamson-Balfour Company was a Scottish owned Chilean company. Its successor company, Williamson Balfour Motors S.A., is a subsidiary of the British company Inchcape plc....
  
  
• Wisetrack
• Zona Latina
  Zona Latina
  Zona Latina is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile. It airs mostly Spanish language music videos. Its sister station is Via X which airs English language music videos. It is owned by Edu Comunicaciones and is available on cable.-External links:...
  
  
• Óptima Televisión
  Óptima Televisión
  Óptima Televisión or its acronym TVO, was a private terrestrial television channel in Chile. It is currently named Más Canal 22 which airs in Santiago in the 22 UHF frequency. It was previously owned by Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello....
  
  
• Última Esperanza Province
  Última Esperanza Province
  Última Esperanza Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena . The capital is Puerto Natales...
  
  

Other

• Hiking in Chile
  Hiking in Chile
  Chile's unusual, ribbon-like shape — 4,300 kilometres long and on average 175 kilometres wide — offers a wide range of environments and climates for hikers, ranging from the world's driest desert — the Atacama — in the north, through a Mediterranean climate in the center, to a snow-prone Alpine...
  
  
• Asociación de Guías y Scouts de Chile
  Asociación de Guías y Scouts de Chile
  The Association of Guides and Scouts of Chile - Asociación de Guías y Scouts de Chile was formed in 1978 by the amalgamation of the Asociación de Scouts de Chile and the Asociación de Guías de Chile .-History:...
  
  
• Chile Antarctic Geopolitics
• Chilean pharmaceutical policy
  Chilean pharmaceutical policy
  The Chilean Pharmaceutical Policy was an attempt in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce a rational national pharmaceuticals policy. Chile was perhaps the first country in the world to introduce the concept of a limited number of essential drugs....
  
  
• Communications in Chile
  Communications in Chile
  The technical regulator of communications in Chile is the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications .-Telephone:*Main lines in use: 3.379 million...
  
  
• Economic history of Chile
  Economic history of Chile
  The economy of Chile has shifted substantially over time from the subsistence agriculture practised by its indigenous peoples to an early husbandry-oriented economy and finally to one of mining and agriculture. Chile started to industrialize in the 1930s with the creation of CORFO that established...
  
  
• Education in Chile
  Education in Chile
  Education in Chile is divided in preschool, primary school, secondary school, and technical or higher education .- Levels of education :The levels of education in Chile are:...
  
  
• Elections in Chile
  Elections in Chile
  Chile holds nationwide presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections.The electoral process is supervised by the Electoral Service , which is independent from the government...
  
  
• Foreign relations of Chile
  Foreign relations of Chile
  Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the international political arena. Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and is an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on...
  
  
• Holidays in Chile
• Human rights in Chile
  Human rights in Chile
  thumb|A monument inuagurated in 2006 to commemorate the [[Caso Degollados]], the slaying by police forces of three Communist Party members in 1985.Human rights in Chile are generally respected by the government...
  
  
• ISO 3166-2:CL
  ISO 3166-2:CL
  ISO 3166-2:CL is the entry for Chile in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Chile, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined...
  
  
• Law of Chile
  Law of Chile
  The legal system of Chile belongs to the Continental Law tradition.The basis for its public law is the 1980 Constitution, reformed in 1989 and 2005. According to it Chile is a democratic republic. There is a clear separation of functions, between the President of the Republic, the Congress, the...
  
  
• List of Chilean companies
• List of Chilean television channels
• List of Chileans
• Transport in Chile
• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• U.S. intervention in Chile
• Water supply and sanitation in Chile
  Water supply and sanitation in Chile
  Water supply and sanitation in Chile is characterized by high levels of access and good service quality. Compared to most other countries, Chile's water and sanitation sector distinguishes itself by the fact that all urban water companies are privately owned or operated...
  
  

See also

• List of international rankings
• Lists of country-related topics
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
• Outline of South America
• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  

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