1. By : Luis Sepulveda

2. Chile’s Facts  Geography  Locations and Regions  Weather  Climate  History  Discovery and Foundation  Art  Writers

3. 1)Chile is a nation in South America bordering the Pacific Ocean.Pacific Ocean 2)Chile’s borders are Peru and Bolivia to the north, Argentina to the east and the Antarctica to the South. PeruBoliviaArgentina

4. Chile is a land of geographical beauties. Atacama Desert Patagonian Fjords Easter 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.

5. 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

6.  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.

7.  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.

8. Official Language Spanish Capital: Santiago Population: 15,980,912 Currency: Chilean Money Peso

10. 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.

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