Articles in Chile ( 802 )

802 Articles of interest in Chile

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  • Pukará de Quitor

    Pukará de Quitor (also spelled Pucará de Quitor) (Quechua pukara fortress) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in northern Chile. This stone fortress is located 3 km northwest of the town of San Pedro de Atacama, overlooking the valley of the riv…

  • Poike

    Poike is one of three main extinct volcanoes that form Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean).

  • La Dehesa

    La Dehesa is a suburban neighborhood in Lo Barnechea Commune of Santiago, Chile. It borders Las Condes to the south and Vitacura to the east. It is located in a valley near the Andes, in the northeast of the city, north of the Mapocho River.

  • Independencia, Chile

    Independencia (Spanish pronunciation: [indepenˈdensja], Spanish for "independence") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.

  • Imilac

    Imilac is the name given to a pallasite meteorite found in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile in 1822.

  • Huaca de Chena

    Huaca de Chena, also known as the Chena Pukara, allegedly one promaucae fortress, rather an astronomic observatory and sacred Huaca, used by them Incas, located on Cucara Point, small orographical eminence that stands out towards the south of Chena …

  • Estadio Santa Laura-Universidad SEK

    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.

  • Cerro Pachón

    Cerro Pachón (Spanish for "Pachón hill") is a mountain located close to Chilean city of Vicuña and 10 km southeast of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, at an altitude of 2,715 m over the sea level in the foothills of the Andes. The locati…

  • Brunswick Peninsula

    Brunswick Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Brunswick) is a large peninsula in Magallanes y la Antártica Region, Patagonia, Chile, at (53.5°S 71.4166667°W). It is 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) wide at its base in the north, and almost 80 kilometres (50 mi) …

  • 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.

  • Wulff Castle

    Current Headquarters for the Unidad de Patrimonio de la Municipalidad de Viña del Mar (Viña del Mar City Hall Patrimony Unit).

  • Wollaston Islands

    The Wollaston Islands (Spanish: Islas Wollaston) are a group of islands in Chile south of Navarino Island and north of Cape Horn and east of the Hoste Island. The islands are Grevy, Bayly, Wollaston and Freycinet, as well as the islets Dédalo, Surgi…

  • Torres del Paine, Chile

    Torres del Paine is a Chilean commune located in the inland of Última Esperanza Province and Magallanes Region. The commune is administered by the municipality in Cerro Castillo, the major settlement in the commune. Torres del Paine National Park li…

  • Santiago College

    Fundación Educacional Santiago College is a private educational (PK-12) institution founded in 1880 and located in Lo Barnechea, Santiago de Chile.

  • Sairecabur

    The Sairécabur volcanic group is a chain of stratovolcanoes located approximately 38 km (24 mi) northeast of San Pedro de Atacama, and directly south of the Putana Volcano, on the border between Bolivia and Chile. This volcanic group contains at lea…

  • Quinta Vergara Amphitheater

    The Quinta Vergara Amphitheater is an open-air amphitheater within the Parque Quinta Vergara located in Viña del Mar, Chile. The amphitheater is the site of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival held yearly in February.

  • Purico Complex

    The Purico Complex is a pyroclastic shield consisting of two ignimbrite sheets that is located in the eastern part of the Atacama Desert in Chile's II Region (Antofagasta), approximately 5 km (3 mi) south of the Bolivia - Chile border. The volcanic …

  • Nordenskjöld Lake

    The Nordenskjöld (Spanish: Lago Nordenskjöld or Lago Nordenskiöld) is a lake located in Torres del Paine National Park in the Magallanes Region, southern Chile. The lake is named after the Swede Otto Nordenskiöld who discovered the lake in the begin…

  • Nevado Tres Cruces National Park

    Nevado Tres Cruces National Park (Spanish pronunciation: [neˈβaðo tɾes ˈkɾuses]) Located in the Atacama Region of Chile at 93.2 miles from Copiapó. It includes Laguna Santa Rosa, Laguna del Negro Francisco, and a part of the Salar de Maricunga. The …

  • Neltume

    Neltume is a Chilean town in Panguipulli commune, of Los Ríos Region. It lies along the 203-CH route to Huahum Pass into Argentina. The town's main economic activities are forestry and, more recently, tourism since the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve…

  • Monte Sarmiento

    Monte Sarmiento is a pyramidal peak with a glaciated saddle-shaped summit located within Alberto de Agostini National Park, in the Chilean portion of Tierra del Fuego. It rises abruptly from the east shore of the Magdalena Channel and marks the west…

  • 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 1,000 m (3,300 ft) above the average surface of the ice cap plateau. It is the…

  • Iru Phutunqu (Chile-Nor Lípez)

    Iru Phutunqu (Aymara iru spiny Peruvian feather grass, phutunqu a small vessel or a hole, pit, crater, hispanicized spellings Iru Putuncu, Irruputuncu, Iruputuncu) is a stratovolcano on the border of Chile and Bolivia. The Chilean side is in the Tar…

  • Gulf of Corcovado

    Gulf of Corcovado (Spanish: Golfo de 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. Most islands of Chiloé Archipelag…