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36 unusual facts about Chile


1980 Chilean telethon

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

1982 Chilean telethon

The 1982 Chilean telethon was the fifth version of the solidarity campaign conducted in Chile, which took place on the 10th and 11th of December 1982.

1987 Chilean telethon

The 1987 Chilean telethon was the seventh version of the solidarity campaign conducted in Chile, which took place on the 4th and 5th of December, 1987.

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.

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.

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.

Angel Kreiman Brill

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

El Señor de la Querencia

El Señor de la Querencia is set in a rural estate in Colina, Chile in 1920.

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.

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.

In 1967, a production of La Cenicienta went on a tour through several cities in Chile: Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Concepción and Santiago, the capital.

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.

Due to the heavy censorship of the military regime in Chile, Los Prisioneros focused in promoting the album outside Chile in other Latin American countries; for this purpose, a special Latin American edition was made.

LAN Chile Flight 160

Flight 160 took off from Ministro Pistarini International Airport at 23:56 GMT (20:56 local time), but when nearing Santiago the Boeing 727 descended below the minimum height of 2829 feet and kept on descending until it struck the ground in farm land north of Colina, Chile.

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.

Luca Manca

He suffered a brain contusion in the accident, and was transferred by helicopter to Hospital del Cobre Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens in Calama, Chile, before being transferred to the neuro-surgical unit of Clínica de la Mutual de Seguridad in Santiago, Chile.

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.

Marco Antonio Figueroa

After a successful season at the team of Calama, reaching the Clausura Tournament semi–finals, in December of that year, he reached an agreement with Universidad Católica for direct to that team in the next season.

Ockham's Razor Theatre Company

They had previously all been studying unrelated theatre subjects at separate universities: Harvey studied Fine Art at De Montfort University in Leicester, Mooney studied English Literature with Spanish at the University of Sussex as well as La Universidad de Santiago, Chile, and Koch studied Cultural Science and Aesthetic Communication at Universität Hildesheim, originally training as a dancer.

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.

The area around the station is dominated by municipal buildings like the civil registry office of Puente Alto, the Provincia Cordillera (Cordillera Province) building, and the old municipality building.

Rafael, Chile

Rafael is a town in the commune of Tomé, in Concepción Province, in the Biobío Region of Chile.

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.

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.

Talcahuano

Together with ten other municipalities, it forms part of the Concepción Province, which in turn is one of four provinces that forms the VIII Region of Biobío Region.

The four greats of Chilean poetry

Towards the end of his life, however, he left the political sphere and retired to his house in Cartagena on the coast of Chile.

Tropaeolum tricolor

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


1948 Winter Olympics

Chile, Denmark, Iceland, Korea, and Lebanon all made their Winter Olympic debut at these Games.

1975 Davis Cup

A protest march was organized in Båstad by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League on September 18, ending at the town square, where former prime minister Tage Erlander and Sweden's former ambassador to Chile Harald Edelstam addressed a crowd of some 3,000.

Ana María Romero de Campero

Father and daughter met in public service, where he gave an outstanding performance as mastermind and chief promoter of the OAS resolution in 1979 which urged Chile to give Bolivia a sovereign and useful outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

Caius Brediceanu

minister plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro (covering the Romanian relations with Brazil, Argentina and Chile (1923–1927))

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 Chico

Chile Chico, which has around 3,000 inhabitants, is the eponymous capital of the commune and capital of the General Carrera Province of the Aysén Region.

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.

Daniella Tobar

In January, 2000, she attracted media headlines in Chile and worldwide after undertaking an art project whereby she took up residence in a transparent glass house placed in the centre of Chile's capital city, Santiago.

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.

Eduardo Frei

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (born 1942), Chilean politician and civil engineer, president of Chile from 1994 to 2000, son of the above

Ferrocarril Central Norte

The first section of the line to Chile via Socompa from Empalme Cerrillos to Rosario de Lerma was completed on 27 August 1907.

Franklin Martins

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

Geology of Bolivia

The bend occurs at the latitude of Cochabamba and corresponds to eastward proyection of the Arica elbow, the bend of south Amicas coastline at the Peru-Chile border.

Gerardo Basaes

Gerardo Patricio Basaes Bórquez (born July 27, 1989 in Catapilco, Quillota Province) is a Chilean footballer.

Glup!

In 1999 the band performed at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, coming soon afterwards into mainstream popularity in Chile due to their adolescent lyrics and sticky melodies.

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).

Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan

He was awarded Honorary Doctorate of Law by several universities namely the University of the Philippines (27 July 1990), University of Nottingham (21 July 1995), University of Santiago, Chile (28 September 1995) and University of Brunei Darussalam (11 September 1996).

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.

Juan Bautista Topete

He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate "Blanca," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.

Juan Cruz Gill

In 2011, he traveled to Venezuela and signed for Estudiantes de Mérida and the next year, Cruz Gill returned to Chile and joined to Primera B side Unión Temuco, team of the Chilean star Marcelo Salas, who currently is retired after a successful career at his country Argentine and Italy.

Juan Henríquez de Villalobos

Juan Henríquez de Villalobos (1630 - † Madrid, 1689); Spanish soldier and administrator who, after participation in various European wars, was designated as governor of Chile by Mariana of Austria.

Juan Subercaseaux

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

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Kantar Worldpanel

In 2000, IBOPE, NPD and TNS created the LatinPanel joint venture, representing the existing Brazil, Argentina and Chile operations.

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 Violencia

These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.

Largenose catshark

The largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador and central Chile, between latitudes 9° N and 28° S.

Lebu

Lebu River, located in the Arauco Province of the Biobio Region of Chile

Llanquihue Islands

The name appears on a Chilean government chart of 1947 and is after Llanquihue Province in 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).

Louis Isidore Duperrey

On the return to France in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont brought back to France an imposing collection of animals and plants collected on the Falkland Islands, on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the archipelagos of the Pacific and New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia.

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.

Maipú Department, Mendoza

The department was created in 1858 and named in memory of the Battle of Maipú, which took place in Chile, 1818 during the South American Wars of Independence.

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.

Mónica Godoy

During the 2011 is part of the winning National Television Council of Chile, with the production Bim Bam Bum and series El Diario Secreto de una Profesional (Adaptation of Secret Diary of a Call Girl).

Murugappa Group

Market leaders in several segments including Abrasives, Auto Components, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bioproducts and Nutraceuticals, the Group has forged strong alliances with leading international companies like Groupe chimique tunisien, Foskor, Cargill, Mitsui Sumitomo, Morgan Crucible and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM).

National Congress of Chile

Congress meets in the Chile Congress building, which was built during the last years of the Pinochet regime and stands in the port city of Valparaíso, some 140 km west of the capital, Santiago.

Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui

Mampato is, with Condorito, the most popular and acclaimed comic strip from Chile.

Paulina Ayala

She was born in Santiago, Chile and was a leader in the student movement and in citizens’ rights organizations under the Pinochet dictatorship.

Pedro Aguirre Cerda

He was born in Pocuro, a small village near the city of Los Andes, in Chile.

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.

Pró-Vida

After beginning activities in the city of São Paulo, at present PRO-VIDA has participating nuclei in various other Brazilian towns and in other countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and the United States of America, besides four country clubs: three in Brazil and one in Argentina.

Quenstedtite

It was first reported in 1888 for an occurrence in Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile and named by G. Linck in 1889 for the German mineralogist F. A. von Quenstedt.

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.

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).

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.