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Chile is a developing country with a high-income economy and is one of the most economically and socially stable nations in South America, leading Latin America in competitiveness, per capita income, globalization, peace, and economic freedom. [17]
Breads. Chileans are one of the biggest bread eaters in the world; second after the Germans, in fact. [12][13][14][15] Chileans eat bread at breakfast, lunch (as a side or appetiser), Las onces or dinner. Bread for “onces” should be as fresh as possible, ideally bought still hot from the local bakery.
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 between 1540 and 1818, when it gained independence from Spain. The country's economic development was successively marked by the export of first agricultural ...
Culture of Chile. The culture of Chile reflects the population and the geographic isolation of the country in relation to the rest of South America. Since colonial times, the Chilean culture has been a mix of Spanish colonial elements with elements of indigenous (mostly Mapuche) culture, as well as that of other immigrant cultures. The Huasos ...
Chile's 2017 census reported a population of 17,574,003 people. Its rate of population growth has been decreasing since 1990, due to a declining birth rate . [ 6 ] By 2050 the population is expected to reach approximately 20.2 million people, at which point it is projected to either stagnate or begin declining. [ 7 ]
This is a list of cities in Chile. A city is defined by Chile 's National Statistics Institute (INE) as an "urban entity" [ note 1 ] with more than 5,000 inhabitants. This list is based on a June 2005 report by the INE based on the 2002 census which registered 239 cities across the country.
Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), which are the country's first-level administrative division. Each region is headed by directly elected regional governor (gobernador regional) and a regional board (consejo regional). The regions are divided into provinces (the second-level administrative division), each ...
The president's official seat is the La Moneda Palace in the capital Santiago. Michelle Bachelet was the first female president of Chile and served from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018. [4][5] Since 2022, Gabriel Boric is the current president, having won the 2021 Chilean general election and taking office on 11 March 2022.