Chile

Over 100,000 inhabitants, Punta Arenas in Chile, (literally in Spanish "Sandy Point") is the most prominent settlement on the Strait of Magellan. Due to its location and size it is sometimes considered the southernmost city in the world and also the Southernmost city on the mainland of South America. Punta Arenas was founded in 1848, its population came from European settlers especially from Croatia. This is an inter-oceanic strategic port on Magellan Strait, that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and Antarctic Peninsula.

Just south of Punta Arenas is Cape Froward is the southernmost point on the mainland of South America. It is located in the North shores of Magellan Strait, being the southern tip of the Brunswick Peninsula; in Chilean territory.

Considering southern insular areas: Over 50,000 inhabitants, Ushuaia in Argentina is the world southernmost town. Over 5,000 inhabitant, Port Williams in Chile is the world's southernmost town.

Cape Horn island (Chile) Cabo de Hornos; is the southernmost point of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile. Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South America, and marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for many years it was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world. However, the waters around the cape are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.

The origin of the German immigrants in Chile began with the Law of Selective Immigration of 1845. The objective of this law was to bring people of a medium social and high cultural level to colonize the southern regions of Chile.

The German immigrants revived the domestic economy and they changed the southern zones. They established themselves principally in the Llanquihue, Osorno and Puerto Montt areas. This area continues as the only completely-German language settlement in Chile.

Today the German language is still spoken by about 20,000 Chileans in daily life.

The German military culture had great influence on the Army of Chile.

The areas where the Germans settled prospered with industries, including shipyards, Gristmills, shoe factorys and many more enterprises....also the first Steel Mill in South America.

The German sweets and its bakery has strong influence in Chilean cuisine today: Küchen, Strüdel, Stolen, Berliners, beers, wursts, etc

Among many distinguished descendants of the Germans in Chile are counted the commander Fernando Matthei Aubel, the architect Mathias Klotz, tennis players Gabriel Silberstein and Hans Gildemeister, the athletes Sebastián Keitel and Marlene Ahrens Ostertag, the musicians Patricio Manns and Emilio Körner, the economist Ernesto Schiefelbein, the politicians Miguel Kast and Evelyn Matthei, the entrepreneurs Jürgen Paulmann and Carlos Heller, the painters Uwe Grumann and Rossy Ölckers, television presentors Karen Doggenweiler and Margot Kahl, writer César Müller, and the actors Gloria Münchmeyer, Antonia Zegers, Aline Kuppenheim, and Bastian Bodenhofer.

It is difficult to tabulate the full number of German descendants in Chile today because of the large quantity of time that has passed and because they have mixed with the Chilean population for more than 150 years. Because many areas of the Chilean South are sparsely populated, the traces of German immigration are rather obvious. In reality, the descendants of these first immigrants mostly live in the big cities. According to the 2002 census, approximately 6,000 German immigrants resided in Chile at that time.

After independence, the Chilean government encouraged emigration Italian, but without getting the results from the nearby Argentina.

However, there was a substantial flow of migration Liguria to the area of Valparaíso, which came to control 70% of the city. These immigrants founded the 'Body of Fire' (called "Cristobal Colon") of the city and its 'Italian School', whose building has been declared by the Government of Chile as historic monument.

Italian Chileans along with French Chileans contributed to the development, cultivation and ownership of the world-famous Chilean wines from haciendas in the Central Valley ever since the first wave of Italians arrived to colonial Chile in the early 19th century.

At the end of the nineteenth century many Italian merchants are rooted in the northern part of Arica, where they began exploiting the rich mines of saltpetre. Meanwhile, many Italian families settled in the capital Santiago, Concepción, Viña del Mar and Punta Arenas.

The Chilean census officially states 600,000 Chileans of Italian descent. According to other estimates, Italian Chileans reach 800,000 residents with some Chileans (distant or close) Italian ancestry, including Italo-Argentinian transplanted in Chile. One of the notable Italian influences in Chile is, for example, the sizable amount of Italian surnames of a proportion of Chilean politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, of whom a good number intermarried into the "Castilian-Basques" elites.

Although being just a fraction of the size of the migration to Argentina, Italian immigration to Chile has been present since the arrival of the first Spaniards into the country, like captain Giovanni Battista Pastene who helped Pedro de Valdivia's expedition. Thence, with akin Latin culture, Italians have helped forge the nation, with architects (Gioacchino Toesca), painters (Camilo Mori), businessmen (Anacleto Angelini), Economists (Vittorio Corbo) and statesmen (Arturo Alessandri) among other.

the Chile landmarks are:

the white house FAIL!

and i don't know more

or you can go to Google and i think its pepe's page or just type stuff and find out.

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