Santiago, capital of Chile. It lies on the canalized Mapocho River, with views of high Andean peaks to the east. The city was founded as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo (‘Santiago of the New Frontier’) in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia.
From the arid north to the lush forests of Patagonia in the south, Chile offers many natural wonders for visitors to explore. The Facts: Flag: Capital: Santiago Area: 291,933 sq mi (756,102 sq km) Population: ~ 20,000,000 Official language: Spanish Religion: 62.1% Christianity 52.6%...
Lauca National Park is an 1379 km² protected area in Northern Chile.Caldera Photo: Gerik20, CC BY-SA 4.0. Caldera is a town of 16,000 people on the coast of Northern Chile.Llullaillaco National Park Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. Llullaillaco National Park, home to the Llulla...
Estadio Municipal Doctor Olegario Henríquez Escalante is a multi-use stadium in San Antonio, Chile.Locales in the AreaCartagena Town Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cartagena is a Chilean commune located in the San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region.L...
Santiago, región metropolitana, central Chile, bordering Argentina on the east, Valparaíso region on the north and west, and O’Higgins region on the south. Santiago, created a province in 1826 and a metropolitan region in 1974, is divided into the pro
This file contains almost 455,000 roads. Let's start filtering it with our Santiago shape (for that we will use .sjoin), so we can handle only the roads that are inside our area of interest. roads = gpd.sjoin(roads, stgo_shape, op='intersects') ...
Chile Regions Map Chile contains 16 regions, which are distributed north to south in the country. Next, regions are divided into provinces and then communes. While regions are the first level of administrative divisions, communes are the finest level. The metropolitan region of Santiago is the mo...
that carries me with ease […]', declares the narrative voice in the first lines of Mapocho , a novel by Nona Fernández (1971), published in 2002 (Fernández 2006: 13). Specified in the novel's title, the river here is the Mapocho, a major water landmark in Santiago, Chile. As...
Another popular projection is thePeters projection, which attempts to correct these size distortions by accurately representing land area. While it offers a more realistic view of country sizes, it sacrifices shape accuracy. TheRobinson projection, which you’ll find in many educational settings, strik...
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