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Map Of Chile

October 13, 2010 by · Comments Off on Map Of Chile 

Map Of Chile, Ferdinand Magellan was the first European explorer to visit Chile, foot by 21 October 1520.

In the late 15th century the Incas extended their empire to the south, attempting to conquer Chile, they have succeeded in the north, but their influence (central and south) has been limited because they face the fierce resistance of people Indigenous Araucanian.

In 1540, Spanish explorer Pedro de Valdivia arrived, and later founded the city of Santiago in 1541. He managed to control the local Indians, forcing them to work hard, but in the south, Araucans not budge.

Many Spanish settlements were built in central Chile, and their population base eventually exceeded one million. These early settlers suffered repeated attacks (often brutal) by Araucanian, and remained a serious problem (difficult to control) in the 19th century.

Colonies secretly hated the military regime in Spain, but he remained loyal to the crown of Spain for nearly three centuries. When the King of Spain was overthrown in the early 19th century, Chileans began to consider the independence and self-government.

And speaking of freedom, José de San Martin and Bernardo O’Higgins, and their armies to start and chased the Spaniards won independence from Spain in 1818. Bernardo O’Higgins, who later became first president of Chile.

Chile defeated Bolivia and Peru into a regional war (1879-1883) for the control areas of the Atacama Desert. During the war Chile won more land to the north and Bolivia lost its outlet on the open sea; prove disaster (today) for its economy.

Starting in 1891, and over the next 80 years, Chile was governed by selfish parliamentary systems, the military regime, the left wing, right-wing parties (including communists) and a long line of democratically elected presidents.

All remnants of democracy were set aside when the repressive military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet began in 1973 and finally ending in 1989 when democratic elections were held again

Today, the underdeveloped countries with a landscape shaped is primed for the 21st century, where it controls a large part of the world’s most spectacular scenery, and countless natural resources and wealth.

Learn more about Chile’s history here!

Facts and Figures

Name Chile

(Long form) Republic of Chile

Population 15,980,912

Population Density & (all countries) here

Capital Santiago (6.3 million metro area)

Currency Chilean Peso (CLP)

Currency converter here

Languages Spanish

Flag here

September 18 National Day

Religions Catholic (89%), Protestant (11%)

Geographic Coordinates

Latitude / Longitude (Capital)
33 º 27 ‘S, 70 º 40’ W

Relative situation in Chile is located in the western and southern hemispheres. It is located on the west coast and southwestern South America and bordered by Argentina, Bolivia and Peru and the Pacific Ocean.

Statistics Land

Littoral 3.998 miles (6.435 km)

Land

(Land) 289,113 square miles (748,800 km ²)

(Water) 3147 square miles (8150 km ²)

(TOTAL) 292,261 sq miles (756,950 km ²)

Land (all countries) here

Relief With a coastline of nearly 4,000 miles toothy, pencil-sized Chile is wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the rugged Andes, the longest mountain range. This land of incredible contrasts and unusual home to many beaches, fjords, deep-sea channels, glaciers and icebergs – and the Atacama Desert – a nearly rainless plateau made up of salt basins and lava flows.

Mountains cover most of the interior. The Andes snow cover almost its entire eastern border, generally weaker, non-Andean ranges dissect Chile (north to south) with the largest being the Cordillera de la Costa in the extreme south.

Located along the Ring of Fire, the Andes are geologically young mountain range that includes more than 600 volcanoes (Chile only), many of them active, and nearly 10% broke (at least once) during the last century.

Throughout the deep valleys and high country plateaus to the mountains, most of liquidation is to the west; the Central Valley (and pampas) operates at the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

Lake area to the south is a group of mostly small blue lakes, cold clear water, in this area, waterfalls is common.

In the far south, a group of almost incalculable mountainous islands (archipelagos forming various) before the coast, forming a series of winding channels and fjords. Cape Horn, south of the island of Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost in the world, next to the Antarctic.

Mixed in the beautiful landscapes are the northern and southern Patagonia ice fields that make up the largest mass of ice in the world outside Greenland and Antarctica.

Hundreds of glaciers off the ice fields of industry, many extend down to the sea water from melting glaciers come together in lakes such as Carrera general – the second largest lake in America South.

And as for rivers…. tens place in the headwaters of the Andes, and the outflow is in the Pacific Ocean, or east through neighboring Argentina.

Highest Pt Nevado Ojos Del Salado – 22,572 m
(6,880 m), the second highest mountain on the South American continent.

Lowest Pt Pacific Ocean – 0 m (0 m)

Land Divisions 13 regions, including: Aisen del General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, Antofagasta, Araucania, Atacama, Bio-Bio, Coquimbo, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Los Lagos Magallanes y Antartica Chilena of, Maule, Region Metropolitana (Santiago), Tarapaca and Valparaiso.

Chile Miners

October 13, 2010 by · Comments Off on Chile Miners 

Chile Miners, Capsule downs the capsule into the tunnel until the capsule. Cheers and chants of “The miners in Chile! Exploded every time another of the 33 miners trapped for more than two months was pulled to safety.

The crowd of supporters barely cleared the day; the miners began to emerge from the mine after 69 days under the surface – even deep into the wee hours of the morning.

Families huddled around campfires to keep warm, but few have been watching the embers. All eyes were riveted on the big screen televisions with live broadcasts of the conclusion of the deepest mine rescue the longest ever.

Hope in the camp, the village of fortune began with family members of 33 miners trapped in the mine copper and gold, 10 weeks of anxiety, excitement, boredom, and advance led to tears of joy, just after midnight as a first, then a second, and possibly many miners were dragged from their damp dungeon in a tiny cage.

Chairman Sebastian Piñera welcomed the miners, with the arrival live on public television network.

Two family members or three expected every minor and were allowed to accompany them to private rooms in a field hospital built here in recent weeks. Some miners led vigorous applause and gave five-year high in the crowd who was waiting before starting to relax.

Before the gates of the mines, dozens of national police used barricades to keep a clear path of the vehicle through the crowd of more than 1,000 journalists from 40 countries. Cameramen fought for views of the family happy, shooting shelters that had been held throughout the evening for months.

“It’s hard to be here today,” said Camila Gomez, 20, as she waited for his father, Mario Gomez, the oldest miner trapped below. “It’s a mixture of feelings -. Nervousness, anxiety, happiness, but mostly just very quiet the time is here to see my father, I’ll tell her I love her very much.”

The authorities turned the Atacama Desert in a vast relief center, headlights so that the helicopter pilots shuttle minors to the hospital would not blind traffic stops for miles around and restrictions on outdoor lighting.

Chile Mine Rescue

October 12, 2010 by · Comments Off on Chile Mine Rescue 

Chile Mine Rescue, (AP) – Jeff Hart has been drilling water wells for forward operating bases to U.S. forces in Afghanistan where he received the call to fly to Chile.

He spent the next 33 days on her feet, using a drill that has finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 miners trapped.

“You must feel through your feet that the drilling is done, it is a vibration you so you know what happens,” said Hart, a contractor in Denver, Colorado.

A taciturn man muscular, with callused hands and a face tanned, Hart rock books normally oil or water.

He is used to extreme conditions while he works the levers that drive hydraulic hammer drills.

But it was something different – 33 lives were depending on him.

“I was nervous today,” said Hart, 40.

He joked that he thought was his heart stop when he felt an unexplained “pop” just before the drill broke through in a measuring chamber basement. “I did not want something to go wrong.”

A few hours after mine gold and copper collapsed Aug. 5, the Government of Chile has made mine owners were ill-equipped to cope with the rescue and asked the state mining company Codelco to take the lead.

Codelco turned Geotec Boyles Bros., a US-Chile, to manage the “Plan B” tree to escape, one of three drilling operations that run simultaneously to reach the miners.

Geotec director of operations James Stefanic said he quickly assembled “a team of top-line” of the drillers who are familiar with the main equipment, including engineering firms in Pennsylvania two – Schramm Inc., which makes exercise T130, and the Rock Center Inc., which makes drills.

Hart was called from Afghanistan, “simply because he is the best” for drilling larger holes with pieces of the T130 drilling large diameter Stefanic said.

Standing in front of the levers, meters and pressure gauges on the control panel of T130, the Hart and the rest of the team face many challenges in the drilling of wells. At one point, the drill hit a metal support beam in the mine poorly mapped, breaking his hammer. Fresh material should be made in the United States and progress was delayed for several days as powerful magnets were cut out the pieces.

Veins to mine gold and copper ran in quartzite with a high level of silica abrasive rock so hard that he took all their skills to keep the hammer drill of curves in unwanted directions. “It was horrible,” said president of the Rock Center Brandon Fisher, exhausted after barely sleeping for the effort.

Fisher, Stefanic and Hart called the most difficult hole they never drilled, because life at stake

“If you’re drilling for oil and you lose the hole, it’s different. This time, there are people underneath,” said Stefanic.

“We ruined some bits worked through problems as a team, and broke,” Hart said. “I am very happy now.”

Parents of children crowded around Hart on Saturday, hugs and posing for photos with him as he descended from the rescue operation in the tent camp where families were anxiously monitoring his work.

“He became the hero of the day,” said Dayana Olivares, whose friend Carlos Bugueño is one of the miners trapped below.

Champagne sprayed all around him after Hart guided the drilling in the juvenile division. He fired the last shot before so that the bit extended a little over two feet (65 centimeters) above the ceiling. Less experienced hands could have pierced with too much power, endangering minors and even blockage of the tree with broken equipment.

“We’ve got the job,” Hart said simply.

Hart has a home in Denver, but works for long periods abroad as a contractor for Layne Christensen Company based in Mission Woods, Kansas.

“We spend most of our time away from our families, but we do not have what-ifs that they were there,” he said of minors. “Now they have a way out.”

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