URGANT: I need rally interesting facts about the coutry Chile in South america! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

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URGANT: I need rally interesting facts about the coutry Chile in South america! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Answer 1

Earthquakes are common, and regional shakes number 100 a month or so.

There are places in northern Chile where it has never rained.

at 14,000 feet in the Northern Andes Mountains, it is desert, where not even fleas exist.

Public transportation works well, and you can get anywhere on a bus.  Tip: wear a flea collar around your ankles to keep the buggers from getting a bite of you.

A really neat place to check out is the cemetary in Santiago- neat buildings, crypts, burial system; besides people live in the cemetary (panteon) as well.

Answer 2

Chile claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers of Antarctica, or roughly 9% of its total size, as Chilean territory. They even show the weather forecast for it on the news.

Northern Chile is home to the world's driest desert: Atacama.

Almost half of the country's population lives in or around the capital city Santiago.

Chile's number one export is copper. The world's largest open pit mine is found at Chuquicamata in northern Chile.

Chileans eat four meals a day, beginning with a light breakfast of toast and tea or coffee.

Lunch is the main meal of the day and is generally served between 1 and 3pm; soups and stews are common.

Between the hours of 5 and 7pm, it is common to take onces (afternoon tea), which consist of a sandwich and some kind of dessert with tea or coffee.

Dinner is rarely earlier than 9pm and can often run as late as midnight.

The Chilean equivalent to an U.S. burger is the Lomo a la pobre (poor man’s steak), a combination of steak topped with two fried eggs and smothered with french fries.

Chile was the last country in the Americas to be occupied by the Spaniards.

Chile has spawned the Nobel Prize-winning poets Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda.

Some interesting things in chile is thay had there first woman president in 2006.

They also won Bolivia's only outlet to the sea in the war of the Pacific.

Chile's coastline stretches 2,700 miles long, running from the Atacama, the world's most arid desert in the north, through forests, valleys, mountains, lakes, glacier fields, the Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Circle in the south. Chile is never more than 110 miles wide east to west.

Unlike most of the world, Chile is blessed with natural barriers. The fruit-growing region is protected by the Andes Mountains on the east, the Antarctic ice cap to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Atacama Desert to the north.

Chile has a broad spectrum of growing climates. These climactic variations favor diversified production of fruits and prolonged harvest seasons. In the past 16 years, fresh fruit exports from Chile to North America have increased over 700 percent. Chile is the primary wintertime source (over 95 percent) of fresh grapes for the US and Canada.

The Chilean fruit-growing season is opposite that ofthe US., so marketing is complementary rather than competitive.

There are more than 2,00 0 volcanoes in Chile, of which 50 are actually active.

Chile is the second-largest producer of salmon in the world.

Chile provides North America with almost 15 percent of all its fruit sales during the months of November through April.

Soccer is Chile's national sport.

Chile is the home of two Nobel Prize winning poets, Gabriela Mistral(1945), and Pablo Neruda(1971).

David Selkirk, immortalized as Robinson Crusoe, survived a shipwreck and lived for several years on a desert island off the coast of Chile, no doubt thriving on the nutritional benefits of fresh fruit.

Answer 3

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