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Pages in category "Lists of landforms of Chile" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
Lists of landforms of Chile (1 C, 9 P) + Landforms of Easter Island (2 C, 1 P) Landforms of the South Shetland Islands (17 C, 8 P) A. Archipelagoes of Chile (13 C, 16 ...
The geography of Chile is extremely diverse, as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56° and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Andes in the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean. Chile's territorial shape is ...
Category: Landforms of Chile by region. 7 languages. ... Landforms of Santiago Metropolitan Region (5 C, 10 P) T. Landforms of Tarapacá Region ...
The Grey Glacier of Chile's Torres del Paine National Park is located in the Zona Austral natural region.. Because Chile extends from a point about 625 kilometers north of the Tropic of Capricorn to a point hardly more than 1,400 kilometers north of the Antarctic Circle, within its territory can be found a broad selection of the Earth's climates.
Landforms of Chile by region (23 C) Populated places in Chile by region ... Geography of Santiago Metropolitan Region (8 C, 1 P) T. Geography of Tarapacá Region ...
Previously, Chile was divided into 25 provinces, which were further divided into departments, and then into communes. The new territorial organization was implemented in phases with some initial "pilot regions" beginning to operate in 1974, extending the process on January 1, 1976, to the rest of the country.
The geology of Chile is a characterized by processes linked to subduction, such as volcanism, earthquakes, and orogeny. The building blocks of Chile's geology were assembled during the Paleozoic Era when Chile was the southwestern margin of the supercontinent Gondwana .