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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: Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios ...
Some of the immigrants that arrived in Valdivia established workshops and built new industries. One of the most famous immigrants was Carlos Anwandter, an exile from Luckenwalde who arrived to Valdivia in 1850 and in 1858 founded Chile's first German school. Other Germans left the city and became settlers, drawn by the promise of free land.
From 1850 to 1875, some 30,000 German immigrants settled in the region around Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue in Southern Chile as part of a state-led colonization scheme. Some of these immigrants had left Europe in the aftermath of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
The conquest of Chile began in earnest in 1540 and was carried out by Pedro de Valdivia, one of Francisco Pizarro's lieutenants, who founded the city of Santiago on 12 February 1541. Although the Spanish did not find the extensive gold and silver they sought, they recognized the agricultural potential of Chile's central valley, and Chile became ...
Valdivia (Spanish pronunciation: [balĖdiβja]; Mapuche: Ainil) is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia.The city is named after its founder, Pedro de Valdivia, and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia, and Cau-Cau Rivers, approximately 15 km (9 mi) east of the coastal towns of Corral and Niebla.
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.
Oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city of the current 50 U.S. states. Santa Fe: New Spain United States: 1607 AD Oldest continuously inhabited state or territorial capital in the continental United States. Quebec City: New France Canada: 1608 AD Oldest city in Canada and oldest French-speaking city in the Americas. St. John's ...