13.Facts about Chile: Chile houses six UNESCO world heritage sites. These are all cultural sites.Rapa NuiNational Park is one of the six UNESCO world heritage sites in Chile. Easter Island which is often referred to asRapa Nuiis located about 3,700 km/ 2,300 miles off the Chilean coastli...
The Chilean region of Patagonia was given its name by Ferdinand Magellan, and it’s actually said to be derived from the Spanish word patagones, which means “big feet.” This possibly refers to a race of large Indians who inhabited the region and who wrapped their feet in animal skins, m...
The World’s largest and most powerful earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale occurred on May 22, 1960 near Valdivia, in southern Chile. It is referred to as the “Great Chilean Earthquake” and the “1960 Valdivia Earthquake”. Its resulting tsunami affected southern...
About 7 million people live in the metropolitan region of Santiago. Other large cities in Chile are Valparaiso, and Concepcion. Chileans in traditional clothing Most Chileans are of mixed Spanish and native American ancestry, however, today only 30% refer to beingmestizo(of mixed ancestry) and ...
4Darwin The Earthquake Detective At least25 major earthquakeshave been recorded to happen within the Chilean border since 1730, all of which have collectively killed thousands of people. Darwin had the unpleasant opportunity to experience one of these terrible tremors—the1835 earthquake of Concepcion....
In 1960, a massive earthquake decimated Chile two years before they were to host the World Cup. FIFA planned to relocate the cup, but the Chilean president demanded that the cup be in Chile, as his country had lost everything else.[7] ...
Theepicentreof the earthquake was under thePacific Oceanabout 15 miles (25 km) west ofChimbote, a fishing port in the department of Ancash, north-central Peru. It occurred at about 3:20pmlocal time and had amoment magnitudeof 7.9. The effects of the quake could be felt from the northern...
On February 27, 2010, less than two weeks before Piñera was set to take office, a magnitude-8.8earthquakestruck Chile (seeChile earthquake of 2010). While Bachelet oversaw initial relief efforts, Piñera toured disaster sites and began speaking on the record as the Chilean leader. Piñera...
northsummitto break off, resulting in an avalanche that destroyed several villages and killed about 3,500 persons. In 1970 a severe earthquake caused landslides that buried 10 villages and most of Yungay; tens of thousands of people were killed in one of the worst natural disasters of the ...
presidents in Chilean history; however, the constitution prevented her from serving a consecutive term. In 2010, with the end of her term approaching, she oversaw relief efforts after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile, causingextensivedamage (seeChile earthquake of 2010)....