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Villa Las Estrellas in 2011. Villa Las Estrellas. Night view. Chilean Post office in Villa Las Estrellas. Chapel of St. Mary Queen of Peace.. Villa Las Estrellas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbiʝa las esˈtɾeʝas]; Spanish for The Stars Village [3] or Hamlet of the Stars) [4] is a permanently inhabited outpost on King George Island within the Chilean Antarctic claim, the Chilean Antarctic ...
In 1984 the first Antarctic Chilean, Juan Pablo Camacho Martino, was born in Villa Las Estrellas. As of 2024, a total of three Chileans have been born in the Chilean Antarctic Territory; Gisella Cortés Rojas was born on 2 December 1984, and Ignacio Miranda Lagunas on 23 January 1985.
Piloto Pardo (pop. 114), consisting of the South Shetland Islands and named after Luis Pardo, with the only civil settlement, Villa Las Estrellas. Tierra de O'Higgins (the Antarctic mainland) (pop. 16), with communal capital Puerto Covadonga ( O'Higgins Station ).
The St. Mary Queen of Peace Chapel [1] (Spanish: Capilla de Santa María Reina de la Paz) is a Catholic chapel [2] located in Villa Las Estrellas, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory (claimed by Chile), which includes in the commune of Antártica, within the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, about 1580 km from Punta Arenas.
As a consequence, Chile saw international tourism arrivals fall by more than 20% in 2019, to about 4.5 million. [6] The following year, the COVID-19 pandemic caused further disruption to the Chilean tourism sector, [7] with a fall of 85.7% on 2019 and total visitors estimated at 1,122,858. [8] In 2021, just 161,000 foreigners visited Chile. [9]
It owns restaurants under various names, many of which are located in Central Ohio. While remaining independent and privately held, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants has grown to 50 restaurant locations across the country from Beverly Hills to New York City, and 20 different concepts in 15 states and the District of Columbia, including the ...
The main economic activities are sheep farming, oil extraction, and tourism. It is also the region with the lowest poverty level in Chile (5.8%); households in Magallanes have the highest income of any region in Chile. [5] Since 2017, the region has had its own time zone. It uses the summer time for the whole year (UTC−3). [6]
Villa Puerto Edén is a Chilean hamlet and minor port located in Wellington Island, in Natales commune, Última Esperanza Province, Magallanes Region. It is considered one of Chile's most isolated inhabited places together with Easter Island and Villa Las Estrellas. The village is known for being the home of the last Kawéshkar people.