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Chile
The Republic of Chile is on the west side of the South American Andes Mountains from Argentina. It has the world's driest desert and the world's largest Greek overseas community. Typical contributions include questions about the country's ancient artifacts and stone petroglyphs, Croat and German immigrant heritage, Mapuche indigenous culture, Pacific Ocean island possessions, sophisticated city life, stabilized politics, and vast mineral resources.
965 Questions
What was the Richter scale reading when the earthquake hit Valdivia Chile?
It was recorded to be magnitude 9.5 on the Richter scale and if you wanted to know it was considered 'CATASTROPHIC' (XII) on the Mercalli scale which measures the intensity of the earthquake
What is the ethnic background of most Chileans?
Most Chileans are mestizos, a mix of Spanish and indigenous people. The overwhelming majority of Chileans have black hair and medium brown eyes with medium to light tan skin. Black people are rare because there was no massive influx of Africans brought in as slaves. People of Asian descent are also rare.
What type of sunglasses did the Chilean miners get to wear?
To protect their retinas from the uv light. Thigh at night the bright spot lights could damage their eyes from being in the dark so long.
Is Chile or Argentina the most southern country in the world?
yes it is alot of hill billies live there
What are some typical landscapes in Chile south America?
The landscapes of Chile is similar to the North America's West Coast from deserts thru tundra, which comprises a wide range of lands and weather conditions across a large geographic scale, extending across 38 degrees in latitude, making generalisations difficult.
Chile's general morphology comprises on the Andes (east), the central valley and the coastal mountains and their bays (west). Chile hosts at least seven major climatic subtypes, ranging from desert in the north, to alpine tundra and glaciers in the east and south east, oceanic template rain forest in the south and Mediterranean climate in the fine wine-lands of Santiago and central Chile, which is amazingly similar to the Central Valley of California!
What country did Singapore gain its independence from?
Britain, then after merging with Malaysia, Singapore left Malaysia in August 9, 1965.
It depends on the map. If it's showing strictly British Columbia or Canada, it lops everything that isn't Canada/BC off, same as the maps of the US that show ONLY the US, and just the line of the borders, no Canada or Mexico.
If it IS showing other territories, then the borders are drawn in on land for Alaska and the Panhandle (which is sometimes greyed out), same as with the main border with the States (also greyed out, if the map is focusing on Canada alone), and then some kind of demarcation (usually a dotted line, but sometimes simply the grey fill again on the non-Canadian bits) continues out into the Pacific to international waters, to show where the border is there. Everything on the southern side is Canadian; everything north of that line is US territory.
Alaskan maps may do things differently, but all the maps I've ever seen, as a resident of BC, either on paper or electronic, do it one of these two ways.
This map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bcmap.PNG and this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/BC-relief.png/200px-BC-relief.png are the standard lopping-everything-else-off style.
This map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Skeena_Watershed.png/288px-Skeena_Watershed.png is an example of the other sort, defining the non-Canadian land and islands with a different colour (greyed out, here).
Hope that helps! :-)
Mexican ceviche is made by marinating raw fish in what type of liquid?
Ceviche is made by marinating raw fish in acid, usually lime juice.
What is the currency in Patagonia?
Patagonia is not a country. It is an area that is partly in Chile and partly in Argentina. So there are two currencies in use in it. The currency of Argentina is the Argentinian Peso and the currency of Chile is the Chilean Peso.
How did the mining accident happen in Chile?
because there was a weakness in the structure of the cooper tunnel entrance
What is the latitude of cape horn?
55 degrees, 58 minutes, 28 seconds s, and 67 degrees, 17 minutes, 20 seconds w...from someone who sailed around it.
What is the swift code for BBVA Banco Frances SA Buenos Aires Argentina?
Swift code for BBVA Banco Frances in Argentina is BFRPARBA, to know more about swift codes visit swiftcodes101
In Chile do people live in poverty?
Most people don't, but as in all countries there are poor people. However, extreme poverty is almost inexistent in Chile.
What is the life expectancy rate in Jordan?
Life expectancy in Jordan is 73.5, 72.2 for males and 74.9 for females.
What country is in south america between Chile and Uruguay?
The country between Chile and Uruguay is Argentina.
Salvador Allende (1908-1973) was a Chilean politician and former President of Chile. He was a Socialist, but not a Communist. Regardless, the United States believed him to be a threat in that he could turn Chile from be Pro-American to being Pro-Soviet. As a result, the United States supported General Pinochet in a coup d'etat to take over the government in 1973. During the coup, Allende committed suicide.
Why does Chile have a high GDP in south America?
Chile does have the highest GDP per capita in Latin America because the following reasons:
I. SOCIAL BASE
1. Strong European influence and interrmarriage (European and white-mestizos).
2. Broad middle class : Depite of Chile's Gini index of 0.54 is one of the world's highest, Chile has a broad middle class because 80% of Chileans have more or less equalitarian salaries (Lower-to-mid middle class) and only 3,000 families owns near 54% of the country´s money.
3. Strong social budget and sound government finances: emphasizes on social policies to make ALL the people have access to health, housing and education.
II. ECONOMIC BASE
1º Strong world-class mining history (first Nitrates and later the cooper)
2º Strong strategic companies created by the Statebetween 1930s and 1950s ( Petroleum ENAP, cooper CODELCO).
3º Privatisation of inefficient companies in the 1970s and 1980s (telcos, trains, power)
4º Privatisation of Social Security (1981) and later reform (2009) of a more equalitarian Social Security System.
5º Free trade agreements with most OECD countries, China and Latin America.
6º LOW PUBLIC DEBT
Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his
poison. Though true cylinders without --within, the villanous green goggling
glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel
meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads' goblets.
Fill to this mark, and your charge is but a penny; to this a penny more;
and so on to the full glass --the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down
for a shilling.
--Herman Melville from Moby Dick
Is Santiago de Chile or de Compostela named after Shakespeare's Othello character Iago?
No, it's the other way around. Sant' Iago is in fact Saint James, and Iago is the Italian form of the given name James. Iago (and all other Jameses) is named for Saint James or Santiago, as are the two cities. St. James is of course one of the Apostles, author of the Epistle of James in the Bible, and a bishop of Jerusalem
What is Chile's national anthem in english?
Pure, Chile, is your bluish sky
Pure breezes cross you as well
And your flower-embroidered fields
Are the happy copy of Eden
Majestic is the white mountain
That was given to you as a bastion by the Lord,
And that sea that quietly washes your shore
Promises you a splendid future
Sweet Fatherland accept the vows
With which Chile swore at your altars
Either the tomb of the free you will be
Or the refuge against oppression
Either you be the tomb of the free
Or the refuge against oppression
Either you be the tomb of the free
Or the refuge against oppression (x3)
