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Isla Negra is best known as the residence of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, [1] who lived there at Casa de Isla Negra (with long periods of travel and exile) from 1939 until his death in 1973. The area was named by Neruda, after the dark outcrop of rocks just offshore. It literally means "black island" in Spanish. The Casa de Isla Negra is now a ...
Casa de Isla Negra was one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. It is located at Isla Negra, a coastal area of El Quisco commune, located about 45 km south of Valparaíso and 96 km west of Santiago. It was his favourite house and where he and his third wife, Matilde Urrutia, spent the majority of their time in Chile. Neruda, a lover of the ...
In 1948, Emilio Pastor Santos of the Spanish National Research Council found that the charts and maps up to 1899 had shown that Kapingamarangi and a few other islands had never been considered part of the Caroline Islands, were not included in the description of the territory transferred to Germany and were never ceded by Spain; therefore ...
Heritage house of Isidoro Dubournais []. El Quisco is a Chilean city and commune in San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region.Located in the country's central coast, it serves as a popular summer resort for the population of Santiago and forms part of the Coast of Poets, a cultural space named after four Chilean poets: Pablo Neruda, Vicente Huidobro, Violeta Parra and Nicanor Parra.
The Casa de Isla Negra is also to be found here, [3] now Neruda's place of burial, together with his wife Matilde. On one of his many returns to Chile, in 1937, the poet sought an ideal place to write his celebrated work Canto General. Neruda bought the site of Isla Negra from a Spanish former sailor who settled in the area following the ...
Isabela Island (Spanish: Isla Isabela) is the largest of the Galápagos Islands, with an area of 4,586 km 2 (1,771 sq mi) and a length of 100 km (62 mi). By itself, it is larger than all the other islands in the chain combined, and it has a little under 2,000 permanent inhabitants.
The Sierra Negra like the other volcanoes on Isabela is believed to have been created from a mantle plume which has created the hotspot.The age of Sierra Negra and the other volcanoes on Isabela is hard to determine as they are in a north–south line to the east of the hotspot, which is believed to be under Fernandina volcano, and the Nazca Plate is moving east.
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