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3 unusual facts about Chilean


Álvaro Bisama

Álvaro Bisama Mayné (born 18 April 1975) is a Chilean writer and literary critic.

Carlos Reinoso

Carlos Enzo Reinoso Valdenegro (born 7 March 1946) is a former Chilean footballer and manager.

Ismael Morandini

It was there that he joined the group of Chilean director Sebastian Mancilla Olivares, where the play "La Enfermedad Incurable" where accepts being "Juan Marchetti" a boy who is attacked every night by epilepsy and chronic migraine is incorporated was there where he shares the spotlight with the talented but unknown actresses Lu Rodriguez and Juliana Reyes and the introducing Az Martinez, who represented the same part of the child but.


Aaron S. Merrill

During his period he cruised extensively with the Chilean Navy, becoming the first foreigner to round the Horn in a Chilean warship.

Aconcagua River

The valley of Aconcagua River was used as route of Transandine Railway on Chilean side.

Aeronor Flight 304

Aeronor Flight 304 was an aircraft that crashed on December 9, 1982 near La Florida Airport, in the Chilean city of La Serena.

Alberto Blest Gana

A liberal, Alberto Blest was named intendant of the province of Colchagua and starting 1866 he was Chilean diplomatic representative at Washington, London and Paris.

Arica–La Paz railway

Efasa is administered by Bolivian Railway Investors, a subsidiary of Antofagasta PLC, which owns the railway from the frontier between Abaroa and Ollagüe down to the Chilean Pacific coast ports of Antofagasta and Mejillones.

Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivian and Chilean historians disagree on whether the territory of Charcas, originally part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, later of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and ultimately of Bolivia, included access to the sea.

Brewster–Sanford Expedition

1914 saw the Becks working their way southwards along the Chilean coast to the Chiloé Archipelago and then, in July, to Magallanes Province.

Bussi

Hortensia Bussi (1914-2009), widow of assassinated Chilean President Salvador Allende and political exilee

Camila Moreno

Her voice, folk style and lyrics have continued the legacy of Violeta Parra's legacy, the most important Chilean folklorist.

Carlos Arias

Carlos Andrés Arias (born 1986), Chilean football (soccer) goalkeeper

Casablanca, Chile

It is a Denomination of Origin (DO) defined by the Chilean Appellation system, the legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine were grown.

Centre for Social Studies

The institution, in receipt of funding by leading Italian socialists including Bettino Craxi and Rino Formica, promoted the academic study of Chilean affairs, with the implicit intent of opposing the Pinochet regime, and favouring a return to democracy in the country.

Chilean ship Valdivia

Pedro de Valdivia was the Conquistador of Chile, and the Capture of the City of Valdivia was one of the first victories of the Chilean Navy.

Chris Andrews

Chris Andrews (translator) (born 1962), Melbourne-based poet, the first translator of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's works into English

Dartnell

Pedro Dartnell (1873–1944), Chilean military officer and member of the Government Junta of Chile in 1925

Defensor Casablanca

Club Deportivo Defensor Casablanca is a Chilean Football club, their home town is Casablanca, Chile.

Eduardo Frei

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (born 1942), Chilean politician and civil engineer, president of Chile from 1994 to 2000, son of the above

Egon Wolff

The formation of the Teatro Experimental de la Universidad de Chile (Experimental Theatre of the University of Chile) in 1941, followed by the founding of the Teatro del Ensayo de la Universidad Catolica (TEUC) (Theatre Actor Studio of the Catholic University) in 1943 created a qualitative change in Chilean theatre.

Enzo Guerrero

Enzo Guerrero (born January 31, 1991 in Andacollo, Chile) is an Chilean footballer currently playing for Coquimbo Unido of the Primera División B in Chile.

Farther Away

Alejandro Selkirk Island, previously known as Más Afuera (Farther Away), a Chilean island

Felipe Aguilar

He birdied the final hole while the erstwhile leader Jeev Milkha Singh bogeyed for a two shot swing that saw the Chilean win by one stroke.

Francisco Vidal

Francisco Vidal Gormaz (1837-1907), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer

French Chilean

With akin Latin culture, the French immigrants quickly assimilated into mainstream Chilean society.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Hugo Carballo

Hugo Raúl Carballo (born April 23, 1944 in Resistencia, Argentina - died September 30, 1998 in Resistencia, Argentina) is an former Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina and Chile.

Itata Incident

The schooner Robert and Minnie transferred it to the Chilean steamer Itata while sailing near San Clemente Island.

Jardín Botánico Chagual

It has received the Sello Bicentenario 2004 (Bicentennial Seal 2004) of the Chilean government, part of the preparations for the 2010 celebrations of the Bicentennial of Chile.

José Toribio Merino

Between 1955 and 1957 he served as aide and counsel in weaponry to the Chilean embassy in London.

Juan Cruz Gill

In 2011, he traveled to Venezuela and signed for Estudiantes de Mérida and the next year, Cruz Gill returned to Chile and joined to Primera B side Unión Temuco, team of the Chilean star Marcelo Salas, who currently is retired after a successful career at his country Argentine and Italy.

Juan Velasco Alvarado

In 1999 General Pinochet claimed that if Peru had attacked Chile during 1973 or even 1978, Peruvian forces could have penetrated deep south into Chilean territory, possibly reaching the southern Chilean city of Copiapó located half way to Santiago.

Kissinger cables

The Vatican dismissed reports of massacres by the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as "propaganda".

Laguna Sur metro station

Laguna Sur station was finally inaugurated on February 3, 2011 by Chilean president Sebastián Piñera along with the rest of stations on the line extension between Barrancas and Plaza de Maipú stations.

Lautaro Baeza

Lautaro Manuel Baeza (born February 17, 1990 in Merlo (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who playing for Rangers of the Primera División in Chile.

Llanquihue

Llanquihue, Chile, a Chilean commune and city in Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region

Llanquihue Islands

The name appears on a Chilean government chart of 1947 and is after Llanquihue Province in Chile.

Long-tailed chinchilla

By the mid-19th century, Chilean chinchillas were not found south of the Choapa River.

M. sativa

Madia sativa, the coast tarweed or Chilean tarweed, a flowering plant species native to the Americas

Mamuil Malal Pass

From the Chilean side the pass is accessed through Route 199-CH, branch line which begins at the Panamerican Highway near Freire.

New Chilean Cumbia

The most popular New Chilean Cumbia acts include: Chico Trujillo, Juana Fe, La Mano Ajena, Banda Conmoción, Villa Cariño, Combo Ginebra, La María Goyo (psychedelic cumbia) and Sonora Barón.

Paila marina

In episode 11, "Abiquiu", of the third season of US TV series Breaking Bad, the character Gus Fring, a prominent Chilean methamphetamine distributor in the south of the United States, prepares a Paila Marina for Walter White while explaining the origin of this typical Chilean dish.

Patricio Contreras

Continuing to live and work in Argentina, he starred in Betty Kaplan's adaptation of Chilean writer Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows (1995), and to his film credits were added those in the local theatre, notably his work in a local, 1996-98 production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (directed by his wife).

Pretending

Pretending (film), known as Ugly Me in the U.S., 2006 Chilean romantic comedy film

Primera dama

Primera Dama (stylized as Deseos de Mujer) and English (first Lady) is a Colombian telenovela Caracol Televisión, adaptation of the eponymous Chilean telenovela Channel 13 in 2010.

Ricardo Rossel

As member of the Army Reserve Battalion, he was called on active duty and assigned to the Redoubt # 2 in Miraflores, confronting a ruthless enemy, and seeing with sadness and anger the looting and stealing of the books of the National Library by the Chilean forces.

Ricardo Valencia

Nicknamed el Chilenito (the little Chilean), Santa Ana-born and raised Ricardo Valencia joined the newly formed team FAS in 1949.

Saif-ur-Rehman Khan

The Chilean interior minister, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, declared the Pakistani student a "terrorist" before the investigations concluded.

Sharpe's Devil

Lord Cochrane, a former Royal Navy officer now in service to the Chilean rebels under Bernardo O'Higgins, ambushes the Espiritu Santo and, with the assistance of Sharpe and Harper, capture it, taking Captain Ardiles prisoner.

Unidad Popular

Succeeding to the FRAP left-wing coalition, it originally comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Social Democratic Party (Chile), and MAPU (Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario).

Viviana Parraguez

Viviana de los Ángeles Parraguez Ulloa (born April 20, 1981) is a Chilean politician, lawyer and surfer.

Vladimiro

(Vladimiro) Ariel Dorfman (born 1942), a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist


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