Chile

By : Luis Sepulveda

Chile’s Facts

GeographyLocations and Regions

WeatherClimate

HistoryDiscovery and

Foundation

ArtWriters

1) Chile is a nation

in South America

bordering the

Pacific Ocean.

2) Chile’s borders

are Peru and

Bolivia to the

north, Argentina

to the east and

the Antarctica to

the South.

GEOGRAPHY OF CHILE

Geography of Chile

Chile is a land of geographical beauties.

Atacama Desert

Patagonian FjordsEaster Islands

Torres del Paine National Park

Chile is unforgettable, and is perhaps one of the few countries in the world where one can be skiing in the morning, and drinking cocktails on the beach in the afternoon.

Chilean Weather

Since Chile lies deep in the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons fall at opposite times of year from the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, the summer months are December, January and February, while June, July and August are the winter months. When it is spring in North America or Europe , it is autumn in Chile , and vice versa. January and February are the peak travel months except, of course, at ski resorts.

Average annual temperatures are:

16 °C at Antofagasta and 18 °C at Arica in the far north.

14 °C at Santiago

11 °C at Puerto Montt

6 °C at Punta Arenas in the far south

In the north, the interior of the Atacama desert has some of the world's highest levels of solar radiation.

Chile can be divided into three major climatic

areas very arid in the north

cool and damp in the south

Mediterranean climate in central Chile , with pronounced seasonal differences: heavier rainfall in the cooler months from May to August, and sunshine the rest of the year.

Chile’s Discovery and Settlement

1535 - Indigenous Araucanian people successfully resist first Spanish invasion of Chile. 1541 - Pedro de Valdivia begins Spanish conquest and founds Santiago.

1814 - Spain regains control of Chile.

1818 - Chile becomes independent with O'Higgins as supreme leader.

1879-84 - Chile increases its territory by one third after it defeats Peru and Bolivia in War of the Pacific. 2006 January - Michelle Bachelet wins the second round of presidential elections to become Chile's first woman president.

Official Language Spanish

ChileCapital: Santiago

Population: 15,980,912

Currency: Chilean Money Peso

Chilean’s Artist writers

• Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was perhaps the most important Latin America poet of the 20th century.

born July 12, 1904, Parral, Chile died September 23, 1973, Santiago

Pablo Neruda

born April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile died January 10, 1957, Hempstead, New York, U.S.

Gabriela Mistral Chilean poetpseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga

• Chilean Poet, who in 1945 became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

http://www.mahalo.com/Chile

http://www.cat-travel.com/chile-information.asp

http://www.santiago.cl/chilefacts/weather.htm

Internet Sources

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1222905.stm

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/409558/Pablo-Neruda

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/385853/Gabriela-Mistral

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