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  2. Architecture of Chile - Wikipedia

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    Despite frequent earthquakes in Chile, Gran Torre Santiago, the tallest building in South America is located in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The building is 300 m (980 ft) high, with 62 floors above ground and 6 floors underground. The height of each floor is 4.1 m (13 ft) and the building area is 107.125 m 2 (1,153.08 sq ft). [23]

  3. Pensions in Chile - Wikipedia

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    The Chile pension system (Spanish: Sistema Previsional) refers to old-age, disability and survivor pensions for workers in Chile. The pension system was changed by José Piñera , during Augusto Pinochet 's dictatorship , on November 4, 1980 from a PAYGO -system to a fully funded capitalization system run by private sector pension funds .

  4. Administrative divisions of Chile - Wikipedia

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    For the interior government and administration within the State, the territory of the republic has been divided into 16 regions (regiones), 56 provinces (provincias) and 346 communes (comunas) since the 1970s process of reform, made at the request of the National Commission on Administrative Reform (Comisión Nacional de la Reforma ...

  5. Alejandro Aravena - Wikipedia

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    Aravena co-authored Los Hechos de la Arquitectura (ARQ, 1999), El Lugar de la Arquitectura (ARQ, 2002) and the monograph Elemental: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual (Hatje-Cantz, 2012). [6] He was a member of the Pritzker Prize Jury from 2009 to 2015, and is an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects ...

  6. Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile) - Wikipedia

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    Minister of the Interior and Public Health: Arturo Alessandri: Alfredo Piwonka Jilabert: 7 May 1933 19 April 1934 Minister of the Interior and Public Health: Luis Salas Romo: 19 April 1934 26 August 1935 Minister of the Interior and Public Health: Luis Cabrera Negrete: 26 August 1935 12 September 1936 Matías Silva Sepúlveda: 12 September 1936 ...

  7. Continental shelf of Chile - Wikipedia

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    Continental shelf of Chile in the Southern Zone Sea. According to the principle that "the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights," [13] the continental shelf of Continental Chile encompasses the entirety of its territorial sea and its Exclusive Economic Zone, except for the 200 nautical miles projected from the Diego Ramírez Islands in the Southern Zone Sea, which ...

  8. Greater Valparaíso - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response

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    The SENAPRED is a territorially decentralized public service with legal personality and its own assets. It is organized based on a national direction and regional directions in each of Chile's regions. [7] It is subject to the supervision of the President of the Republic of Chile through the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. [8]