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Showing posts with label CHILE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHILE. Show all posts
May 8, 2016

2533 CHILE - Marraqueta

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The marraqueta (a soft bread made with flour, salt, water and yeast, with a crunchy texture) is the most widely consumed bread in  Chi...
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December 24, 2015

2143 CHILE (Arica y Parinacota) - Lauca National Park

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Located in Chile's far north , in the Andean range, Lauca National Park encompasses an area of 1,379 km2 of altiplano and mountai...
September 30, 2015

1926 CHILE (Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena) - Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (UNESCO - Tentative List)

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1926 - Torres del Paine National Park Located in a transition area between the  Magellanic subpolar forests and the Patagonian Stepp...
August 19, 2015

1834 CHILE (Antofagasta) - Paso de Jama in Altiplano

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The Altiplano (the high plain), located in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive are...
August 12, 2015

1812 CHILE (Antofagasta) - Licancabur volcano

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Located on the southernmost part of the border between Chile and Bolivia , just southwest of Laguna Verde in Bolivia, Licancabur (5,...
March 8, 2014

1027 CHILE (Tarapacá) - Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works (UNESCO WHS)

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  The gunpowder is only a simple mix of sulphur , charcoal and saltpeter , but it is known how much it influenced our history. Well, ...
October 28, 2013

0852 CHILE - Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System (UNESCO WHS)

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It is known that the Inca road system was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. The n...
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October 15, 2013

0841 CHILE - La Cueca

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By Decree No. 23 published in the Official Journal on 18 September 1979, cueca became the national dance of Chile . Among other argume...
March 10, 2013

0548 CHILE (La Araucanía) - Villarrica volcano

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Known also as Rucapillán, which in Mapuche means "House of the Pillán", Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcan...
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February 28, 2013

0532 CHILE (Antofagasta / Atacama) - Penitentes from Puna de Atacama

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Puna de Atacama (Atacama Plateau) is a cold Andean tableland in northwestern Argentina and adjacent regions of Chile, with a length of...
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January 8, 2013

0316, 0452 & 0453 CHILE - Pablo Neruda

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I read the first poem by Pablo Neruda in 1986, in an anthology called Poetry and Humanity , which includes all the 20 poets who ha...
November 30, 2012

0399-0400 CHILE (Metropolitana de Santiago) - Cerro Santa Lucía

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On 12 February 1541, the Spanish Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded, on a island of the Mapocho River , a settlement which he name...
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September 16, 2012

0333 CHILE (Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins) - Sewell Mining Town (UNESCO WHS)

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Situated in the Andes, on volcano Cerro Negro, at about 2100m high, 80km from Santiago and 60km to the east of Rancagua, in an environm...
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July 15, 2012

0279 CHILE (Los Lagos) - Osorno volcano

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"It is even difficult to get a single glimpse of the Cordillera: during our first visit, once only the volcano of Osorno stood out...
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May 30, 2012

0231 CHILE (Antofagasta) - In the land of the Atacameño

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We all learned in school that the Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth. Maybe also the fact that it has an area about as a third...
March 30, 2012

0161 CHILE (Metropolitana de Santiago) - La Moneda Palace (UNESCO - Tentative List)

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Santiago, Chile – March 29, 2012 (i.e. yesterday) The Associated Press : "Bands of hooded youths clashed with police in Chile...
February 22, 2012

0129 CHILE (Valparaiso) - Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso (UNESCO WHS)

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The second postcard sent by Hernán ( gracias, amigo ) shows Valparaiso, which played an important geopolitical role in the second ha...
January 15, 2012

0099 CHILE - Mapuche, people of the land

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If sending postcards would be a profession, Hernán would be in the elite professionals and on his business card would be engraved the t...