Because they live on the slopes of the Andes Mountain Range, they are also known as the " Chilean mountain goat ".

Because of their isolation and difficulty of access, there are no human settlements on these islands, but a detachment of the Chilean Navy is stationed on Isla San Félix, which also hosts a runway ( ICAO code for the airfield: SCFX ).

Because of his more personal and Chilean-national point of view about Chilean independence, Carrera came and came into conflict with the Lautaro Lodge, whose more Latin-Americanist centered objective was to unite all Latin America in the same way as the United States of America.

Because of this many Chilean vineyards do not have to graft their rootstock and incur that added cost of planting.

Because no candidate did obtain an absolute majority, the election required a further vote by the National Congress of Chile in which Allende was overwhelmingly confirmed as the winner, in which the Christian Democrats voted in favor of Allende, and thus he assumed the presidency accordance with the Chilean Constitution of 1925.

Because he was Interior Minister, under the Chilean constitution, Ibáñez became Vice President and announced elections for May 22 that year.

Because of the co-pilot's assertion that the plane had passed Curico ( which was completely wrong, the real position was more than to the east deep in the Andes ), the group assumed that the Chilean countryside was just a few miles away to the west.

Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.

Because of the expected retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet, the batteries and gyroscopes that keep the telescope pointed will eventually fail, which would result in its reentry and break-up in Earth's atmosphere.

Because of the long period in which it took to build a battle fleet, Raeder was, despite his Anglophobia, hostile towards an anti-British foreign policy ( at least until the High Seas Fleet was resurrected ) and until 1937, Raeder saw his principal enemies as France, Poland and the Soviet Union.

Because of the 18, 000-mile journey, the Russian fleet was in relatively poor condition for battle.

Because the airline ’ s existing fleet of 12 airplanes is rapidly becoming outdated, in 2002 three new aircraft were leased for eight years, and in early 2006 the airline announced plans to acquire six new aircraft, with options for an additional four, beginning in 2012.

Because his force was inferior, he chose the narrow, rocky body of water between the western shore of Lake Champlain and Valcour Island ( near modern Plattsburgh, New York ), where the British fleet would have difficulty bringing its superior firepower to bear, and where the inferior seamanship of his relatively unskilled sailors would have a minimal negative effect.

Because of this misinterpretation, ships were kept in port and the fleet was not placed on alert.

Because Porto Alegre has a ready supply of natural gas, the city's taxi fleet is gradually being converted to it from gasoline.

Because its primary function is to coordinate a fleet, a flagship is not necessarily more heavily armed or fortified than other ships.

Because of the French advance, English Admiral Samuel Hood ( W. Percy Day ) orders the burning of the moored French fleet before French troops can recapture the ships.

Because of the narrowness of the strait and the hazard posed by the underwater rocks, Admiral Yi sent six ships to lure out 63 Japanese vessels into the wider sea, and the Japanese fleet followed.

Because of the lack of funding, manpower and resources, the initial fleet consisted of converted merchantmen, with exclusively-designed warships being built later in the conflict.

" Because of this, the fleet was supplied with new and bigger ships, reflecting a number of innovations including the use of iron in shipbuilding industry and the invention of the torpedo ; with these advances, the effectiveness and the appearance of the Hellenic Navy changed.

Because of the thick clouds and rain over the area the Luftwaffe did not attack the American bomber fleet, as the Germans believed that because of the weather the American bombers would be incapable of attacking their targets.

Because of his detailed knowledge of the Mississippi ( the equal of any professional river pilot ), his exceptional ability at navigating the most treacherous parts of the river system, and his personal fleet of snag-boats and salvage craft, he was afforded the much prized courtesy title of " Captain " by the rivermen of the Mississippi and was addressed as Captain Eads throughout his life.

Because of the weather, he decided to land his other artillery closer to the enemy lines, but dense fog soon closed in, and he could not communicate with the fleet.

Because Branch's order to retreat included all of the Confederate river batteries, their guns were spiked and they were abandoned to the fleet.

Because of the remote location of the battle and chance encounter on open ocean, neither fleet had air or submarine assistance, making this one of the few engagements exclusively between surface ships in the Pacific Theater and one of the last pure gunnery duels in naval history.

Because of this threat, the British decided to attack the Italian fleet at anchor during the famed Battle of Taranto.

Because the Soviet Navy never constructed a large aircraft carrier fleet during the Cold War, as the U. S. Navy possessed, the Soviet Navy was unique in deploying large numbers of bombers in a maritime role for use by Naval Aviation.

Because of alleged maintenance documentation issues, Kiwi International was asked to temporarily ground 25 % of its fleet.

Because of highly flammable interior materials and poor braking effectiveness, the fate of the fleet is in limbo with the rail safety authority.

Because communication between the fleet and the landing force would be needed, Canby suggested that a contingent of his signal corpsmen be distributed among the major ships of Farragut's attacking force.

Because of the long periods often spent at sea and poor conditions on board, many of the crew sometimes perished during the voyage ; therefore advanced rigging systems were developed so that the vessel could be sailed home by an active sailing crew a fraction of the size aboard at departure.

Because of its site, jutting into the Forth, and its long, narrow shape, the castle has been characterised as " the ship that never sailed ".

Because the only written evidence for Fokás's voyages lay in Lok's account — researchers being unable to find records of the expedition in Spanish colonial archives — there was long much controversy over his discovery and, indeed, whether he had ever even existed as a real person ; several scholars have dismissed Juan de Fuca as entirely fictitious, and the 18th-century British explorer Captain Cook strongly doubted that the strait Fokás claimed to have discovered even existed ( although Cook actually sailed past the Strait of Juan de Fuca without entering it and did stop at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island ).

Because of its simplicity, star hopping is a very common method for finding objects that are close to naked-eye stars.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

Because the margin of victory was so close a third election in the summer of 1840 was held.

Because the orbital plane of the Moon is tilted with respect to the orbital plane of the Earth ( the ecliptic ), eclipses can occur only when the Moon is close to the intersection of these two planes ( the nodes ).

Because times of sunset and sunrise, unlike the phenomenon described in preceding paragraphs, vary with an observer's geographic location ( longitude and latitude ), these dates likewise depend on location and do not exist for locations sufficiently close to the Equator.

Because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, Eusebius was sometimes called Eusebius Pamphili: " Eusebius, son of Pamphilus ".

Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to the point of divergence.

Because of his close connection with the great royal families of Germany, France, England and Denmark, Callistus ' papacy was received with much anticipation and celebration throughout Europe.

Because they fire pistol ammunition, they have limited long-range use, but in close combat can be used in fully automatic in a controllable manner due to the lighter recoil of the pistol ammunition.

Because of its close relation to the time-evolution of a system, it is of fundamental importance in most formulations of quantum theory.

Because of the difficulty of travel and the hazards of wilderness survival during the winter months, it is the only major National Park Service park to close entirely for the season.

Because she had a run of the play contract she could not be replaced and so producers were forced to close the show.

Because of strong cultural, religious, linguistic, and economic ties, Nepal's association with India traditionally has been close.

Because of their high density, close encounters between stars in an open cluster are common.

Drawbacks: Because of the nature of the pump, the clearance between the rotating pump and the outer edge must be very close, requiring that it rotates at a slow, steady speed.

Because the ludi were religious in nature, it was appropriate for the Romans to set up this temporary stage close to the temple of the deity being celebrated.

Because they would have been in such close proximity to the actors, ancient Roman audiences would have wanted attention and direct acknowledgement from the actors.

Because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil.

Because of the excessive heat and inadequately experienced drivers attempting to access the desert in the past, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has decided since 2008-2009 to close the Simpson Desert during the summer — to save unprepared " adventurers " from themselves.

Because of his 4 field goals and the close score, this is the only Super Bowl in which the losing team scored more touchdowns than the winning team ( Cincinnati 3, San Francisco 2 ).

Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia.

Because brain injuries can be life threatening, even people with apparently slight injuries, with no noticeable signs or complaints, require close observation ; They have a chance for severe symptoms later on.

Because these couples were child-free and were not concerned with the conditions of schools and playgrounds, they elected to live in the inner-city in close proximity to their jobs.

Because of his mother's and his wife's Huguenot descent he was very close to the Huguenots of Berlin.

Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both Pan species are the closest living relatives of humans and cladistically are equally close to humans.