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Valparaíso was one of the host cities of the official 1959 Basketball World Cup, where Chile won the bronze medal. Plaza Sotomayor with monument of the heroes of Iquique The "Valparaíso Downhill" [ 62 ] is a mountain bike race that takes place in February.
The Valparaíso Region (Spanish: Región de Valparaíso, pronounced [balpaɾaˈiso]) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. [FN 1] With the country's second-highest population of 1,790,219 as of 2017, and fourth-smallest area of 16,396.1 km 2 (6,331 sq mi), the region is Chile's second most densely populated after the Santiago Metropolitan Region to the southeast. [1]
The province spans a coastal area of 2,146.6 km 2 (829 sq mi), the fourth largest in the Valparaíso Region. According to the 2002 census, Valparaíso was the most populous province in the region with a population of 651,821.
The National Congress of Chile [1] (Spanish: Congreso Nacional de Chile) is the legislative branch of the Republic of Chile. According to the current Constitution (Chilean Constitution of 1980), it is a bicameral organ made up of a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate. Established by law No. 18678, [2] the city of Valparaíso is its official ...
The Edificio de la Comandancia en Jefe de la Armada de Chile, [1] also known as Edificio de la Intendencia de Valparaíso, because it was a purpose-built Intendencia, [2] is a building designed in an eclectic style with Renaissance Revival architecture elements, [2] which rises 5 floors in height and covers 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft). [3]
Trolleybuses in Valparaíso, Chile, have provided a portion of the public transit service since 1952.The trolleybus system is the second-oldest in South America. [1] The originally state-owned system has been privately owned since 1982, and since 1994 it has been Chile's only operational trolleybus system.
A Chilean judge on Saturday ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire in the Valparaiso region that caused ...
Greater Valparaíso (Gran Valparaíso) is the third largest metropolitan area in Chile, after the Greater Concepción and Greater Santiago. It takes this name after the city of Valparaíso, the oldest city of the group and the most important harbour in Chile. It's total population is 979,127 at the 2012 census, with an area of 401.6 square ...