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42 unusual facts about Chile


1980 Chilean telethon

On 5 and 6 December, 1980, the third version of the Chilean Telethon was conducted in Chile .

1985 Chilean telethon

This was the year when Don Francisco formally launched the spin-off disaster relief telethon Chile helps Chile in response to this, and called on the nation to exert its efforts towards rebuilding Valparaiso Province and the Santiago Metropolitan Region.

TVN, state television, condemned the actions of Los Prisioneros during this telethon, since the group was openly opposed to the military regime.

1986 South American Games

The III South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1986 in Santiago, Chile, with some events in Concepción and Viña del Mar.

1997 Punitaqui earthquake

The extensive damage to structures was the result of an amplification effect on the ground and the poor quality of building materials, this reflects the potential for damage incurred in an intraplate earthquake with vertical fault and how it can be much greater than what which can cause one of interplate of similar magnitude, and caused severe damage in Chilean cities of La Serena, Ovalle, Illapel and Punitaqui.

In La Serena, hysteria broke out, and people went into the streets as a precaution.

2012 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship

The 2012 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship was the fourth official edition of the men's volleyball tournament, played by eight teams over August 5 – 9, 2012 in Ignacio Carrera Pinto Gymnassium in Linares, Chile.

Alonso de Cordova y Figueroa

He served as lieutenant, captain of infantry and of cavalry in Lota and San Carlos de Austria; lieutenant general of cavalry and Sargento Mayor of the Kingdom of Chile.

Angel Kreiman Brill

In 1995, Kreiman returned to Chile to the southern city of Concepción, and in 2011 moved to Jerusalem.

Arkaia

The first Arcaya who emigrated to the Americas was Melchor de Arcaya, who arrived in Chile in 1630, settling in Colina, Chile.

Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivia subsequently became dissatisfied at the arrangement due to the negative financial status of the national budget, especially after the earthquakes that struck Cobija in 1868 and 1877, the only small coastal town originally founded by Bolivians.

Emilio Martínez

Emilio Damián Martínez (born 10 April 1981 in Concepción) is a Paraguayan footballer.

Hualpén

Hualpén (its pronunciation is: /wal'pen/) is a Chilean city and commune belonging to Concepción Province and the Biobío Region.

Jenaro Gajardo Vera

Jenaro Gajardo Vera (Traiguén, Malleco Province, Chile, November 18, 1919 - Santo Domingo, San Antonio Province, Chile, May 3, 1998) was a Chilean lawyer, painter and poet.

John Diston Powles

In the mid-1820s he was heavily involved in the promotion of South American mining companies, and enlisted a young Benjamin Disraeli to write pamphlets promoting these mines, particularly those in Chile.

Jorge Mandrú

Jorge Mandrú (born May 5, 1986 in Osorno) is an alpine skier from Chile.

Joseph Dombey

During his stay in Concepción the cholera broke out, and at once Dombey offered his services and was appointed physician-in-chief of the city, which office he resigned in 1783 when the epidemic had passed.

La Cenicienta

It was written in 1966 and played by Jorge Peña Hen's first Symphonic Orchestra of Children at the Theater of the Girls Public School in La Serena, a city in the northern region of Coquimbo.

La cultura de la basura

La cultura de la basura (Spanish for The culture of the rubbish) is the third album by Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros.

Laureano Ladrón de Guevara

Laureano Ladrón de Guevara Romero (1889–1968), better known as Laureano Guevara, was born in Molin on June 18, 1889 and died in Santiago de Chile on November 21, 1968.

Lebu

Lebu, Chile, a city and capital of the Arauco Province of the Biobio Region of Chile

Lota, Chile

The city lies in the southern of the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region, 39 kilometres south of Concepción, and one of the ten cities(communes) that constitute Concepción metropolitan area.

Macul

Macul (Quechua: "to stretch out right hand") is a commune (smallest administrative subdivision in Chile) of Chile located in the central-eastern part of the Greater Santiago area, bordered by the communes of Ñuñoa to the north, San Joaquín to the west, Peñalolén to the east and La Florida to the south.

Marta Larraechea

She studied as a child at "Inmaculada Concepción" school in Concepción, Secretaryship and Social Orientation at Instituto Carlos Casanueva.

Martín Vargas

Martín Vargas Fuentes (born January 24, 1955 in Osorno) is a former boxer from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Nicolás Vigneaux

Nicolás Vigneaux Poirot (born March 8, 1997 in Colina) is an actor and student, known by his first television series Mujeres de lujo who played Moses.

Niebla, Chile

Niebla is located on the northern edge, at the mouth of the Valdivia River, across from Corral.

Open building

New examples of housing in less-developed economies, designed by professionals to be incrementally upgraded in a user-controlled process, come to light in Chile, Mexico, and South Africa.

Pedro de Valdivia Bridge

Together with Río Cruces Bridge (built in 1987) it allows connection from Valdivia to the coastal town Niebla.

Plaza de Puente Alto metro station

The station and square are a popular pick-up and connection point for taxis, share taxis, buses that go to different parts of south Santiago and throughout Cordillera Province, of which Puente Alto is the capital.

Pudahuel

Pudahuel (Mapudungun "place of pools/water" or "place where seagulls gather") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.

Quilicura

Quilicura is located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, at the northwestern edge of Chile's capital Santiago.

Ramón Freire

An orphan from early age, he was raised in a hacienda by his maternal uncles near the town of Colina.

Recoleta, Chile

Recoleta is a commune of Chile founded in the Pinochet's government, located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.

Río Cruces Bridge

Together with Pedro de Valdivia Bridge (built in 1954) it allows connection from Valdivia to the coastal town Niebla.

Robert Scheidt

He also won in 1996 the World Championship, held in Cape Town, South Africa and again in 1997, in Algarrobo, Chile.

Roberto Matta

In 2008 the mural was completely restored at a cost of $43,000, and is displayed today in Santiago at the La Granja city hall.

Santiago Metro Line 2

Since 2009, the Municipality of San Bernardo and the Santiago Metro began planning a future extension of Line 2 to the south, running from La Cisterna to San Bernardo’s central square.

South American Mission Society

In 1860 Allen Gardiner, Jr. established a second mission station at Lota, Chile, and later won important official concessions against the incumbent Catholic clergy.

Tropaeolum tricolor

Further south it grows in inland temperate forests in the central and Los Lagos regions at varying heights.

Vicuña Mackenna Avenue

It crosses the communes of Santiago, Providencia, Ñuñoa, San Joaquín, Macul and La Florida and intersects with the urban highway Autopista Vespucio Sur.

Avenida Vicuña Mackenna (Vicuña Mackenna Avenue) is one of the main transport arteries of Santiago, Chile, joining Santiago center with more remote urban centers such as the communes of La Florida and Puente Alto.


1578 in poetry

Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in 1569, the second part was published for the first time this year (together with the first part), the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589; Spain

702 Alauda

It was named Pichi üñëm, meaning "little bird" in the Mapuche language of Chile, the country from which the moon was discovered.

Acaena sericea

Acaena sericea is a species of low growing perennial plant native to southern Chile and Patagonia.

Aeronor Flight 304

Aeronor Flight 304 was an aircraft that crashed on December 9, 1982 near La Florida Airport, in the Chilean city of La Serena.

Afortunada

"Afortunada" is a Pop song recorded by Chilean singer and song-writer Francisca Valenzuela and this song is the fourth official single from her first solo debut studio album, Muérdete La Lengua, released in Chile on 7 January 2008.

Andrónico Luksic

Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.

Augusto d'Halmar

He became widely known in Chile by his adopted nom de plume, Augusto d’Halmar, in honour of his maternal great grandfather the Swede Baron de d’Halmar.

Caudron G.3

In 1921 Adrienne Bolland, a French test pilot working for Caudron, flew a G.3 across the Andes between Argentina and Chile.

Cedomil Lausic Glasinovic

Lausic Glasinovic remained in Chile after the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup even though many of his comrades had been assassinated or had been subject to forced disappearances.

Chile at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Chile competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia after missing the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Chilean ship Valdivia

Pedro de Valdivia was the Conquistador of Chile, and the Capture of the City of Valdivia was one of the first victories of the Chilean Navy.

Claudio Naranjo

Naranjo set off on a six month pilgrimage under the guidance of Oscar Ichazo and a spiritual retreat in the desert near Arica, Chile, which he considers the true beginning of his spiritual experience, contemplative life and inner guidance.

Copiapó Valley

Copiapó Valley is located in Copiapó Province, Chile.

Corporación Andina de Fomento

The creation of CAF began to take place in 1966 following the historic signing of the Declaration of Bogotá in the presence of its framers, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo of Colombia, President Eduardo Frei Montalva of Chile, President Raúl Leoni of Venezuela, and the personal representatives of the presidents of Ecuador and Peru.

Crotoniidae

Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia

Douglas Hopkins

From 1971 to 1973 he worked at several volcanic sites, including the Italian islands of Sicily and Stromboli, as well as Guatemala and Chile.

Edgardo Enríquez

He married the lawyer Raquel Espinoza Townsend with whom he had four children: his youngest child Miguel Enríquez (1944–1974) followed him into the field of medicine and became the legendary revolutionary figure who founded the MIR and headed the resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship.

Two of his sons Miguel Enríquez, and Edgardo Enriquez along with his ex-son in law Bautista van Schouwen (all three leading members of the MIR) were assassinated in the first period of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Electricity market

The earliest introduction of energy market concepts and privatization to electric power systems took place in Chile in the early 1980s, in parallel with other market-oriented reforms associated with the Chicago Boys.

Fernando en Filippo

Fernando is a guitarist from Santiago in love with a girl in San Antonio (the exact locations of the two cities is never made clear, and the names may simply be generic Spanish locations, however there is a Santiago and a San Antonio in Chile), whom he drives to see every evening.

Franklin Martins

Martins lived in Cuba, Chile and France, where he graduated at the École de Sciences Sociales of the University of Paris.

Gabriela Mistral

Poema de Chile describes the poet's return to Chile after death, in the company of an Indian boy from the Atacama desert and an Andean deer, the huemul.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Hebe elliptica

Hebe elliptica is a plant of the family Plantaginaceae, which is endemic to New Zealand, Aisen and Magallanes in Chile, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands.

Hooktooth dogfish

The type specimen is held at the National Natural History Museum, Santiago, Chile.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

It is thought to breed between March and July, as this is when fledglings are regularly seen at sea around Lima (in Peru) and Antofagasta (in Chile).

Immigration to Chile

It is currently estimated that there are about 50,000 descendants of Dutch in Chile, mostly located in Malleco, Gorbea, Pitrufquén, Faja Maisan and around Temuco.

Juan Subercaseaux

Monsignor Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz (August 26, 1896 - August 9, 1942) was a Chilean Roman Catholic archbishop.

Karl Friedrich Reiche

He worked as a professor in Dresden (1886-1889) and Constitución, Chile (1889-1896).

Kurt Ams

Ams was also selected to officiate the Bronze Medal game between Chile and China at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympics.

La Mandrágora

Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), who had formed the Creationist literary movement, had been one of the main intermediaries of Surrealist thought in Chile, through his yearly travels to Paris.

La Mano Ajena

On November 2009, La Mano Ajena opened the concert of the world famous New York gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, on their first visit to Chile.

Los Blops

Los Blops formed in Chile in 1970 when Eduardo Gatti (vocals and guitars), Julio Villalobos (guitars), Pedro Greene (drums), Andres Orrego (keyboards) and Juan Pablo Orrego (bass) performed covers (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Kinks) in a local club in Isla Negra, with additional changes in the band with the addition of members Sergio Bezard (drums) and Juan Contreras (flute and keyboards).

Luis Sánchez de Tagle, 1st Marquis of Altamira

He wielded the greatest influence in the realm as well as outside it as branch members of his family also held great influence in other Spanish colonies such as Peru, Guatemala, Chile leading all the way to the Philippines (the Tagle family AND the Perez de Tagle family whose descendants include Don Fausto Preysler Perez de Tagle of Banco Español-Filipino and his daughter Isabel Preysler), where Manila was one of the greatest commercial hubs of the Spanish Empire.

Miguel Pinto

Universidad de Chile would go on to defeat Pachuca in the preliminary round with Pinto turning in good performances in both games of the two-legged playoff.

Montparnasse

Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Camilo Mori and others made their way from Chile where the profound innovations in art spawned the formation of the Grupo Montparnasse in Santiago.

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.

Nicolás Vega

Later, General Vega moved back to Chile where he operated the La Colorada mine at Copiapó, and was able to help Sarmiento with a job as foreman during his period of exile.

Pedro de Candia

He was one of the Great 13th (Sp: Los 13 Grandes) of the conquest of South America; consequently he participated in the civil war in Chile and eventually was killed in Peru in the Battle of Chupas by Diego de Almagro II who suspected him of treachery.

Pedro Moncayo

Pedro Moncayo y Esparza (29 June 1807 in Ibarra, Ecuador — February 1888 in Valparaíso, Chile) was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician.

Required navigation performance

Since 2009, regulators in Perú, Chile and Ecuador have deployed more than 25 RNP-AR approach procedures, designed in conjunction with LAN Airlines.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Puerto Montt

The archdiocese, which comprises the entire province of Llanquihue in the Los Lagos region of Chile, covers a territory of 18,205 km² and has 31 parishes.

Roxana Briban

She also appeared at the Vienna Volksoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Théâtre du Capitole, the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile and the Muziektheater in Amsterdam.

The Black Pimpernel

The film is about Harald Edelstam, Sweden’s ambassador to Chile, who after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, managed to save the lives of more than 1,300 people by taking them to his embassy and transporting them to Sweden.

Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper

According to the New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute (the only international, non-profit scientific organization devoted to education and research related to Capsicum or chile peppers), the distinction of world's most piquant pepper currently belongs to the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.

Unidad Popular

Succeeding to the FRAP left-wing coalition, it originally comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Social Democratic Party (Chile), and MAPU (Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario).

Valdivia International Film Festival

From that point the characteristic trophy award emerged: the Pudú (The Pudú is a small kind of deer, typical of southern Chile).

Virgilio Paz Romero

According to the National Security Archive, Virgilio Paz met DINA agent Michael Townley and Italian terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie in Madrid, in 1975, to prepare, with the help of Francisco Franco's secret police, the murder of Christian Democrat Bernardo Leighton.

Zañartu

Guardiamarina Zañartu Airport (IATA: WPU, ICAO: SCGZ), airport serving Puerto Williams in the southern tip of Chile