The Churches of Chiloé in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago are a unique architectural phenomenon in the Americas and one of the most prominent buildings of Chilota architecture.

These speaker live south of the Mapuche in Chile's Valdivian Coastal Range, Osorno Province and on Chiloé Island.

Los Lagos Region (, literally Region of the Lakes ) is one of Chile's 15 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena.

Puerto Montt is also the gateway to the Chiloé Archipelago and Chiloé Island across the Chacao Channel, and the many other smaller islands in Chile's inland Sea of Chiloé.

Chile's congressional elections are governed by a unique binomial system that rewards coalition slates.

Chile's trade talks with Malaysia and Thailand are also scheduled to continue in 2008.

Chile's northern neighbors are Peru and Bolivia, and its border with Argentina to the east, at, is the world's third longest.

There are also several clinics like Universidad de Chile's Clinica Barón, Hospital Aleman ( due to close ), and the former Naval Hospital on Playa Ancha Hill.

Chile's largest oil refinery is located in Concón ( on the mouth of the Aconcagua River and about 20 km north of Valparaíso ) and there are two important copper ore refineries: the state owned Ventanas ( on the coast and north of Concón ) and the private works in Chagres, about 55 miles ( 90 km ) inland.

Other versions of this story say this happened in the 19th century, or that the Chilean flag was placed second after the French flag ; there are even variations that talk about Chile's national anthem, placing it either in the first place or second, after La Marseillaise.

Chile's most famous contributions to literature have come from Nobel Prize poets Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, whose homes and birthplaces are now museums that attract literary pilgrims to Chile.

Most commercial and administrative centers are located in the region, including Chile's main international airport, Arturo Merino Benítez.

Other " chillanejos " are also part of Chile's best artistic and literary traditions: Marta Brunet, a writer ; Marta Colvin, a sculptress ; Pacheco Altamirano, a painter ; and numerous others who, however, did not reach the international acclaim achieved by Arrau and Vinay.

Chile's reforms under the government of Augusto Pinochet are held as the origin of neoliberal shock therapy.

Chile's vineyards are found along an 800-mile stretch of land from Atacama Region to the Bio-Bio Region in the south.

Most of Chile's premium wine regions are dependent on irrigation to sustain vineyards, getting the necessary water from melting snow caps in the Andes.

Many of Chile's vineyards are found on flat land within the foothills of the Andes.

Chile's wine laws are more similar to the US appellation system than to France's Appellation d ' origine contrôlée that most of Europe has based their wine laws on.

Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current constitution.

Chile's congressional elections are governed by a unique binomial system that rewards coalition slates.

Many of Chile's vineyards are found on flat land within the foothills of the Andes.

Remembered as Ercilla's 60-something elder widely respected by mapuche people, among his captains we can find headchiefs whose names are part of Chile's present geography: Paicaví, Lemo, Lincoyán, Elicura and Orompello, just to name a few.

Huasos ( plural ) are generally found in Chile's central valley.

Tigres are playing home and away qualifying matches against Chile's Unión Española.

Activists believe that conservative attitudes are changing, finding greater public tolerance as Chile's Congress debates striking " offenses to morals and good customs " clauses " that police have used to harass gays, even for behavior such as holding hands in public ".

One of Chile's Antarctic research facilities, Arturo Prat Station, and the Chilean Naval Academy, Escuela Naval Arturo Prat are named after him.

The Netherlands and Italy were Chile's main European trading partners.

During the 2000 PBS documentary The Commanding Heights ( based on the book ), Friedman continued to argue that criticism over his role in Chile missed his main contention that freer markets resulted in freer people, and that Chile's unfree economy had caused the military government.

* Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O ' Higgins, Santiago, Chile's main avenue, popularly known as Alameda

The city is Chile's main tourist attraction.

Chile's main award in letters, the " Premio Nacional de Literatura ", was given to Marcela Paz in 1982, a few years before her death ( 1985 ).

Puerto Montt is the capital of the Los Lagos Region and the Llanquihue Province, and the main sea port at the lower end of Chile's western continental land.

Talcahuano contains Chile's main naval base which is home of the historical relic, the Huáscar, a Peruvian ironclad ship ( British-made ), which was captured in 1879 during the War of the Pacific.

Universidad de Chile's main rivalry is against Colo Colo and when they play each other it's called the Super Clásico of Chilean football.

The threat from the MIR was underlined by the discovery at the end of May of a guerrilla training camp in the southern province of Valdivia. Beginning in March 1968, a series of MIR bomb attacks took place in various parts of the country that targeted among others, the U. S. consulate, the Chilean-American Institute in Rancagua, the main office of the Christian Democratic Party, the office of Chile's largest-selling El Mercurio newspaper and the residence of senator Francisco Bulnes of the National Party.

Chile's football federation committee, led by Carlos Dittborn and Juan Pinto Durán, toured many countries convincing various football associations about the country's ability to organize the tournament in comparison to Argentina's superior sports infrastructure and prestige.

As seen in this SeaWiFS image Chile's southern coast is broken into many islands, Fjords and channels of Chile | fjords, channels and twisting peninsulas.

Having retired, Vargas ' legend continued to grow among Chileans, many of whom spoke of the many times Vargas seemed to be close to become Chile's first world boxing champion.

A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, known for its many musicians, she is the granddaughter of famous Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra.

In 1968, Quilapayún participated in the launch of a new record label of La Jota ( Chile's Communist Party Youth Organization ) and here they record their LP X Vietnam which included songs from the Spanish Revolution ; to the surprise of many commercial record labels its release became a nationwide success.

Having heard of the numerous extra-judicial killings of many fellow artists by Chile's army, they took up residence in Italy, resulting in " the longest tour in history " for Inti-Illimani as they lived in de facto exile.