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Legislature is based in Valparaíso. Includes Easter Island and Isla Salas y Gómez; does not include 1,250,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi) of territory claimed in Antarctica. Chile, [a] officially the Republic of Chile, [b] is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica ...
Pedro de Valdivia. Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ðe βalˈdiβja]; April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553 [1]) was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as ...
CLP 6.6 billion (10.7%) Chilean cinema refers to all films produced in Chile or made by Chileans. It had its origins at the start of the 20th century with the first Chilean film screening in 1902 and the first Chilean feature film appearing in 1910. The oldest surviving feature is El Húsar de la Muerte (1925), and the last silent film was ...
Languages of Chile. Spanish is the de facto official and administrative language of Chile. It is spoken by 99.3% of the population in the form of Chilean Spanish, as well as Andean Spanish. Spanish in Chile is also referred to as "castellano ". Although an officially recognized Hispanic language does not exist at the governmental level, the ...
11 May 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-11) The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 1,988,279 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013. It is the 8th-largest Wikipedia as measured by ...
Chile hosts a Spanish Cultural Center in Santiago. [13] In 2007, the twinning between the cities of Plasencia (Spain) and Santiago (Chile) was established to celebrate the fifth centenary of the birth of Inés Suárez , highlighting her important milestone as a precursor of the leadership of women and equal opportunities in South America , and ...
27 February 1811. 2 April 1811. Interim President of the First Government Junta. —. Fernando Márquez de la Plata. (1740–1818) 2 April 1811. 4 July 1811. President of the First Government Junta.
Valdivia. Commune. Corral. Isla del Rey (Spanish for King's Island) is a river island the largest island in Los Ríos Region of Chile. It is located near the outflow of Valdivia River into Corral Bay. To the east, south and southwest the island is separated from the mainland by Tornagaleones River. [1] To the north it is bounded by Valdivia ...