The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

* 1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

Abalone is also farmed in Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Chile, France, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States.

The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).

For example, the main crossover of the Andes between Argentina and Chile is still accomplished through the Paso Internacional Los Libertadores.

However, there is one railroad that connects Chile with Argentina via the Andes, and there are others that make the same connection via southern Bolivia.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

Much like on the U. S., alcoholic beverages in Chile are not sold on Sunday mornings, while on election days their sale is prohibited by law during the entire day ( starting the Saturday before ).

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Chile ( or ), officially the Republic of Chile (,, Mapudungun: Gulumapu ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

Southern Chile is rich in forests and grazing lands, and features a string of volcanoes and lakes.

Today, Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, a recognized middle power and an emerging economy.

About 4, 000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in the fertile valleys and coastal areas of what is present day Chile.

The Inca Empire briefly extended their empire into what is now northern Chile, where they collected tribute from small groups of fishermen and oasis farmers but were not able to establish a strong cultural presence in the area.

However, the title of discoverer of Chile is usually assigned to Diego de Almagro.

The beginning of the Independence movement is traditionally dated as September 18, 1810 when a national junta was established to govern Chile in the name of the deposed king Ferdinand VII.

After 20 years, Chile is now heading in a new direction.

The politics of Chile takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Chile is both head of state and head of government, and of a formal multi-party system that in practice behaves like a two-party one, due to binomialism.

The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature of Chile.

1541 founding of Santiago de Chile

* 1811 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

During the 1930s, the Surrealist idea spread from Europe to North America, South America ( founding of the Mandrágora group in Chile in 1938 ), Central America, the Caribbean, and throughout Asia, as both an artistic idea and as an ideology of political change.

* November 17 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

Bolivia became an associate member in March 1997 in order to open investment opportunities with the founding Mercosur countries ( Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ), as well as other Mercosur associate members ( Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela ).

In 1941, Chile hosted that year's edition in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santiago for which the capacity of the newly built Estadio Nacional was expanded from 30, 000 to 70, 000 spectators.

1541 founding of Santiago de Chile

The founding 40 member states were: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Viet-Nam.

He returns to Chile and becomes one of the founding members of the Grupo Montparnasse, key influence in the diffusion of the new European painting trends in Chile.

Besides describing the earthquake in her Journal of a Residence in Chile, she had also written about it in more detail in a letter to Henry Warburton, who was one of the Geological Society ’ s founding fathers.

Miguel Ramos Arizpe of Mexico, Joaquín Fernández de Leiva of Chile, Vicente Morales Duárez of Peru and José Mejía Lequerica of Ecuador, among other significant figures in founding American republics, were active participants at Cádiz.

Since its founding, the National Ski Patrol has worked closely with other countries in outdoor emergency care education, and has assisted in establishing ski patrol organizations in Canada, Korea, New Zealand, Israel, Turkey, Argentina and Chile, as well as the Victorian Rescue Service in Australia.

Before founding the Council in 1975, Birns taught at Hamilton College and served with a United Nations mission in Chile during the Salvador Allende government.

The award expanded globally after its founding in the US, with the first programs emerging in Germany in 1981, in Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland in 1984, and in France, Chile and Peru in the early 1990s.

Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes and has had recorded eruptions even since the time of the conquest of Chile and the founding of the city of Villarrica at its foothills in 1552.

Chile, as a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) organization, is seeking to boost commercial ties to Asian markets.

Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and is an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on Human Rights and participating in UN peacekeeping activities.

The OECD agreed to invite Chile to be among four countries to open discussions in becoming an official member .< ref >

In addition, it was the only Latin American member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development since it joined in 1994 until the accession of Chile in 2010.

In 1984 Jorge Vargas, the secretary general of the Union Nacionalista de Chile ( UNACH, Nationalist Union of Chile, a short-lived National Socialist party ) and a former member of the Movimiento Revolucionario Nacional Sindicalista ( National-Syndicalist Revolutionary Movement ), declared to La Tercera de la Hora that Gelli was then in Chile.

Chile, as a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) organization, is seeking to boost commercial ties to Asian markets.

He was only briefly a member of the England under-21 team ( netting on his only appearance in a win over Greece under-21 at Carrow Road ) before he made his début for the senior team in a 2 – 0 friendly loss to Chile on 11 February 1998.

) ( July 24, 1943, Los Andes, Chile ) is a member of the Chilean rock fusion band Los Jaivas.

Chile, México and the United States expressed interest in hosting the next tournament, but the CONMEBOL Executive Committee decided to continue the execution of the rotation, giving priority of the organization to each of its member associations ; each association confirms whether they will host an edition or not, having no obligation to do so.

Although CONMEBOL President Nicolas Leoz proposed hosting the continental tournament in Mexico ( a member of the CONCACAF federation ) and board members Brazil and Chile discussed the possibility of exchanging the 2015 and 2019 tournaments, it was decided in the end, as the CBF confirmed in February 2011, that the 2015 Copa América is to be held in Brazil.

Except for Chile, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Mexico, and Slovenia, all OECD member states are members of the IEA.

José Miguel Carrera Verdugo ( October 15, 1785 – September 4, 1821 ) was a Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile.

CEMICOR has since dissolved and the CWG ( NZ ) is now a member of the International Trotskyist Fraction ( FLT ) together with Workers ' Democracy ( Argentina ), the International Workers ' Party ( Chile ), Revolutionary Trotskyist League ( Peru ), Red October International ( Bolivia ) and the Trotskyist Fraction ( Brazil ).

It is a full member in the twin Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in northern Chile.

The single living species, Fitzroya cupressoides, is a tall, long-lived conifer native to the Andes mountains of southern Chile and Argentina, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests.

In 1999, Joaquín Lavín, the mayor of Las Condes and member of UDI, was proclaimed as the Alliance for Chile candidate for the presidential election.

Her maternal grandmother, Luisa Kilpatrick, née Valdivieso Araoz, was a member of a wealthy Spanish family that settled in Chile in the 17th century.

The bark of the red cinnamon or false winter's bark, Cinnamodendron corticosum, is used as a substitute for winter's bark ( Drimys winteri, a member of Winteraceae ) in Chile and Argentina, where it is called canelo, a name that is also applied to cinnamon.

Likewise, Sanguinetti was an active member of the Support Group ( Uruguay, Peru, Brazil and Argentina ) of the Contadora Group ( Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama ), an informal consultative forum dedicated to exploring preventive measures against the expansion of armed conflicts in Central America, which, in December 1986 decided to merge with the so-called Group of Eight, which in turn was called the Río Group in October 1990 coinciding with its expansion to include Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.