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  2. Southern Chile - Wikipedia

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    Southern Chile is an informal geographic term for any place south of the capital city, Santiago, or south of Biobío River, the mouth of which is Concepción, about 300 kilometres (200 mi) south of Santiago. Generally cities like Temuco are

  3. Zona Sur - Wikipedia

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    Zona Sur (Southern Zone) is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950. Its northern border is formed by the Bío-Bío River, which separates it from the Central Chile Zone. The Southern Zone borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, and to the east lies the Andean mountains and Argentina.

  4. Geography of Chile - Wikipedia

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    The geography of Chile is extremely diverse, as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56° and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Andes in the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean. Chile's territorial shape is ...

  5. Chile - Wikipedia

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    The central valley is characterized by several species of cacti, the hardy espinos, the Chilean pine, the southern beeches and the copihue, a red bell-shaped flower that is Chile's national flower. [100] In southern Chile, south of the Biobío River, heavy precipitation has produced dense forests of laurels, magnolias, and various species of ...

  6. Zona Austral - Wikipedia

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    A noteworthy peculiarity of southern Chile, from the Taitao peninsula to Tierra del Fuego, is the large number of glaciers formed on the western and southern slopes of the Andes and other high elevations, which discharge direct into these deeply cut estuaries. Some of the larger lakes of the Andes have glaciers discharging into them.

  7. Islands of Chile - Wikipedia

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    The islands of Chile encompass the various islands that the government of Chile has sovereignty over. By far the majority of these are the islands in the south of the country. Chile has one of the world's longest coastlines, and one of the most dangerous for boats; it is more than 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) long and has at least 43,471 islands ...

  8. Geology of Chile - Wikipedia

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    In central and southern Chile (33°–42° south), the landscape is partially covered with glacial sediments from the Andes. In Zona Austral (south of 42° south) the depression dips below sea level, appearing occasionally in islands such as Chiloé. Its southern end is the Isthmus of Ofqui.

  9. Outline of Chile - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Chile. Chile is: a country; Location: Southern Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere. Latin America. South America. Southern Cone; Time zones: Easter Island – UTC-06, October–March UTC-05; Rest of Chile (Except Magallanes Region)– UTC-04, October–March UTC-03; Magallanes Region - UTC-03; Extreme points of Chile. High: Ojos del ...