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[citation needed] Prehispanic Chile was peopled by diverse Amerindian people who were located around the Andes and the coast. In the area to the north of the country, the Aymara and the Atacama began to cultivate land from the 11th century in the style of the Incas (growing plants on terraces on the sides of mountains with canal systems).
Landscape of Arica, Chile. The Chinchorro culture of South America was a preceramic culture that lasted from 9,100 to 3,500 years BP (7,000 to 1,500 BCE). The people forming the Chinchorro culture were sedentary fishermen inhabiting the Pacific coastal region of current northern Chile and southern Peru. Presence of fresh water in the arid ...
Chile has attempted to develop hydropower projects in indigenous territory where the rivers that the energy companies hope to use are sacred to the Mapuche people. One area impacted by hydropower development is the Puelwillimapu Territory, whose interconnected waterways are referred to as the watershed of Wenuleufu or the ‘River Above ...
Chilean Supreme Director, and Libertador, Bernardo O'Higgins founded the city of La Unión south of Valdivia in 1821, to secure the way to Osorno, city that had been repopulated in 1796 by his father Ambrosio O'Higgins. Valdivia had been a province of the Captaincy General of Chile and was in 1826 incorporated as one of the eight provinces of ...
The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 3000 BC. By the 16th century, Spanish invaders began to raid the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.
Prehispanic history of Chile; T. Tiwanaku Empire This page was last edited on 4 October 2024, at 20:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga was a Chilean poet known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. 28.
The Chilean-Swedish population is estimated at 56,000 people, [3] a result of migration that began with the political refugees from the 1973 coup d'état. Chilean economist Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by Pinochet's secret police in 1976