Articles in Chile ( 802 )

802 Articles of interest in Chile

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  • Estadio Municipal Lucio Fariña Fernández

    Estadio Municipal Lucio Fariña Fernández is a multi-use stadium in Quillota, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of San Luis Quillota of the Primera División de Chile. The stadium holds 7,680 spectators.

  • El Yeso Dam

    El Yeso is a reservoir located in the Andes, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. It is formed by the damming of Yeso River, part of Maipo River basin.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Corral Bay

    Corral Bay is a bay in the mouth of the Valdivia River, southern Chile. Its main towns are Corral and Niebla. The mouth of the bay is between Juan Latorre point and Morro Gonzalo, with a width of 5.5 km. All the year the bay is transited by merchant…

  • Cordón de Puntas Negras

    Cordón Puntas Negras is a 500 km2 (193 sq mi) volcanic chain located east of the Salar de Atacama in Chile's II Region, which runs from the Chiliques volcano on the north to volcán Puntas Negras (5,852 m (19,199 ft)) almost 26 km (16 mi) to the SE. …

  • Cordillera de Nahuelbuta

    The Nahuelbuta Range or Cordillera de Nahuelbuta (Spanish pronunciation: [nawelˈβuta]) is a mountain range in Bio-Bio and Araucania Region, southern Chile. It is located along the Pacific coast and forms part of the larger Chilean Coast Range.

  • Concordia Tunnel

    The Concordia Tunnel is a proposed tunnel between Bolivia and an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. The tunnel would run under the line of concord between Chile and Peru, and give Bolivia access to the sea for the first time since the War of th…

  • Colegio del Verbo Divino

    Colegio del Verbo Divino ("College of the Divine Word" in Spanish) is an institution of learning in Chile catering to grades from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade (cuarto medio). It was founded in 1950 by the Congregación del Verbo Divino ("Congr…

  • Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake

    The Pueyrredón/Cochrane Lake is a glacier fed lake located on the eastern edge of the southern Andes, straddling the border between Argentina and Chile. It is named after Lord Cochrane on the Chilean side and Pueyrredón on the Argentina side. The bo…

  • Cisnes River

    The Cisnes River (Spanish for swan) is a river located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of the Chilean Patagonia. It runs in east-west direction from the mountains near the border to Argentina and empties into the Pacific Ocea…

  • Cerro Provincia

    Cerro Provincia is a mountain on the eastern side of Santiago, Chile. It is a popular climb due to its accessibility and low level of difficulty by mountaineering standards (an 'F' or 'easy' on the Alpine scale). The peak has an altitude of 2,750 me…

  • Cerro Macá

    Cerro Macá is a stratovolcano located to the north of the Aisén Fjord and to the east of the Moraleda Channel, in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile.

  • Palomo

    Palomo is a Chilean stratovolcano located in the Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, west of Caldera del Atuel. The volcano shows evidence of glacial dissection.

  • Cerro Arenales

    Cerro Arenales is a heavily ice-covered stratovolcano located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile, within Laguna San Rafael National Park. It towers over the southern part of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field.

  • Cau-Cau River

    Cau-Cau River is minor river in the city of Valdivia, southern Chile. Cau-Cau River acts as a regulating channel between Cruces River and Calle-Calle River forming the Isla Teja island in front of the city centre.

  • Caspana

    Caspana is a Chilean village located 85 km northeast of the city of Calama, in the gorge carved by the river that shared its name and that is a tributary of the Salado River.

  • Cachantún Cup

    The Cachantún Cup is a women's tennis tournament that was held at the Centro de Tenis Las Salinas, at the Club Naval de Campo Las Salinas in Viña del Mar, Chile.

  • Battle of Quiapo

    Battle of Quiapo in the Arauco War was the final battle in the campaign of García Hurtado de Mendoza against the Mapuche under the toqui known as Lemucaguin or Caupolicán the younger. It was fought in Quiapo, Arauco Province, Chile on the December 1…

  • Almirantazgo Fjord

    Almirantazgo Fjord (Spanish: Fiordo Almirantazgo), also known as Almirantazgo Sound (Spanish: Seno Almirantazgo) or Admiralty Sound, is a Chilean fjord located in the far south of the country at (54°19′S69°30′W). The fjord cuts deeply into the west…

  • Academy of Christian Humanism University

    The Academy of Christian Humanism University (UAHC) (Spanish: Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano) is a Chilean non-profit private university, founded in 1988 but whose origins date back to 1975 when establishing the Academy of Christian Hum…

  • 1997 Punitaqui earthquake

    The 1997 Punitaqui earthquake occurred at 01:03 UTC on October 15. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.1. This earthquake was one of the most destructive in the epicentral area compared to other events of subduction of the same size.

  • Battle of El Toro

    The Battle of El Toro (March 6, 1820) was a battle fought near Maullín, Chile between Chilean patriots and Spanish royalists, during the Chilean War of Independence.

  • Tyndall Glacier (Chile)

    Tyndall Glacier or Geike Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. It is located in the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. The glacier has its main calving front in Geikie Lake and like its neighbor, Grey Glaci…

  • Torobayo

    Torobayo is a suburb of Valdivia, Chile. It lies west of Isla Teja and connects to the city through Río Cruces Bridge. The Kunstmann beer factory and restaurant list within Torobayo and produces an ale beer named Torobayo Ale.

  • Toconce

    Toconce is a small Chilean village located on the south rim of the Toconce River Canyon at 3,350 m above sea level.

  • Tinguiririca Volcano

    Tinguiririca Volcano is a massive and active stratovolcano located in Chile's VI Region (O'Higgins) and near the Argentinian border. Constant fumarolic activity occurs within and on the NW wall of its summit crater and hot springs and fumaroles can …