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unusual facts about Cobija, Chile


Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivia subsequently became dissatisfied at the arrangement due to the negative financial status of the national budget, especially after the earthquakes that struck Cobija in 1868 and 1877, the only small coastal town originally founded by Bolivians.


1578 in poetry

Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in 1569, the second part was published for the first time this year (together with the first part), the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589; Spain

1975 Davis Cup

A protest march was organized in Båstad by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League on September 18, ending at the town square, where former prime minister Tage Erlander and Sweden's former ambassador to Chile Harald Edelstam addressed a crowd of some 3,000.

Acaena sericea

Acaena sericea is a species of low growing perennial plant native to southern Chile and Patagonia.

Ana María Romero de Campero

Father and daughter met in public service, where he gave an outstanding performance as mastermind and chief promoter of the OAS resolution in 1979 which urged Chile to give Bolivia a sovereign and useful outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

Brasiléia

Not just consumers are turning to the Bolivian economy, but entrepreneurs as well due to free trade zone of Cobija (the departmental capital of Pando province and Nicolás Suárez).

Chile Chico

Chile Chico, which has around 3,000 inhabitants, is the eponymous capital of the commune and capital of the General Carrera Province of the Aysén Region.

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.

Claudio Naranjo

Naranjo set off on a six month pilgrimage under the guidance of Oscar Ichazo and a spiritual retreat in the desert near Arica, Chile, which he considers the true beginning of his spiritual experience, contemplative life and inner guidance.

Daniella Tobar

In January, 2000, she attracted media headlines in Chile and worldwide after undertaking an art project whereby she took up residence in a transparent glass house placed in the centre of Chile's capital city, Santiago.

David H. Popper

After spending three years as ambassador to Chile he finished his diplomatic career as special representative for Panama Canal Treaty Affairs.

Diego Rivarola

At the beginning of 2006, and after conflicts with then coach of the Universidad de Chile, Héctor Pinto, Rivarola signed with Argentinos Juniors, but failed to establish himself as part of the team's starting 11 and moved to the Venezuelan club UA Maracaibo few months later.

Edgardo Enríquez

He married the lawyer Raquel Espinoza Townsend with whom he had four children: his youngest child Miguel Enríquez (1944–1974) followed him into the field of medicine and became the legendary revolutionary figure who founded the MIR and headed the resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship.

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.

Electricity market

The earliest introduction of energy market concepts and privatization to electric power systems took place in Chile in the early 1980s, in parallel with other market-oriented reforms associated with the Chicago Boys.

Flora Huayaquilensis

Dr. Eduardo Estrella was working and researching in the archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid Spain in 1985 when he found the documentary of the "Fourth Division," for the expedition of Ruiz and Pavon in Peru and Chile, Dr. Estrella found a large number of descriptions of plants whose origin corresponds to the places that belong to the Royal Audience of Quito.

Franklin Martins

Martins lived in Cuba, Chile and France, where he graduated at the École de Sciences Sociales of the University of Paris.

Fruit and vegetable beer

Black Mountain Brewing Company in Cave Creek, Arizona brews "Cave Creek Chili Beer", the only internationally marketed chile beer.

Gerardo Basaes

Gerardo Patricio Basaes Bórquez (born July 27, 1989 in Catapilco, Quillota Province) is a Chilean footballer.

Hooktooth dogfish

The type specimen is held at the National Natural History Museum, Santiago, Chile.

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.

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.

Juan Bautista Topete

He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate "Blanca," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.

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 Subercaseaux

Monsignor Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz (August 26, 1896 - August 9, 1942) was a Chilean Roman Catholic archbishop.

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Karl Friedrich Reiche

He worked as a professor in Dresden (1886-1889) and Constitución, Chile (1889-1896).

Kurt Ams

Ams was also selected to officiate the Bronze Medal game between Chile and China at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympics.

La Compañía

La Compañía is a Chilean town in the communes of Graneros and Codegua in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region.

La Mano Ajena

On November 2009, La Mano Ajena opened the concert of the world famous New York gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, on their first visit to Chile.

La Moneda Palace

Works on the building started in 1784, with building materials arriving the following year from around Chile and the world: limestone from the Polpaico country estate; sand from the Maipo River; red stones from a quarry at the Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago; white stone from the neighbouring Cerro Blanco; oak and cypress wood from Valdivia; Spanish metal works from Vizcaya.

La Violencia

These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.

Luis Sánchez de Tagle, 1st Marquis of Altamira

He wielded the greatest influence in the realm as well as outside it as branch members of his family also held great influence in other Spanish colonies such as Peru, Guatemala, Chile leading all the way to the Philippines (the Tagle family AND the Perez de Tagle family whose descendants include Don Fausto Preysler Perez de Tagle of Banco Español-Filipino and his daughter Isabel Preysler), where Manila was one of the greatest commercial hubs of the Spanish Empire.

Maipú Department, Mendoza

The department was created in 1858 and named in memory of the Battle of Maipú, which took place in Chile, 1818 during the South American Wars of Independence.

Maricarmen Arrigorriaga

It debuted at television when he was just starting the soap, replacing an actress with an antagonistic role on the daytime drama Casagrande on television Canal 13.

Mónica Godoy

During the 2011 is part of the winning National Television Council of Chile, with the production Bim Bam Bum and series El Diario Secreto de una Profesional (Adaptation of Secret Diary of a Call Girl).

Murugappa Group

Market leaders in several segments including Abrasives, Auto Components, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bioproducts and Nutraceuticals, the Group has forged strong alliances with leading international companies like Groupe chimique tunisien, Foskor, Cargill, Mitsui Sumitomo, Morgan Crucible and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM).

Néstor Isasi

Néstor Isasi (born 9 April 1970 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who played in clubs of Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Ogu and Mampato in Rapa Nui

Mampato is, with Condorito, the most popular and acclaimed comic strip from Chile.

Pablo Lenci

In 1993 he moved to Chile to play for Coquimbo Unido, he also played for Deportes Iquique and Santiago Morning before moving to Mexico for a brief spell with Correcaminos UAT in 2001.

Pedro Moncayo

Pedro Moncayo y Esparza (29 June 1807 in Ibarra, Ecuador — February 1888 in Valparaíso, Chile) was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician.

Pró-Vida

After beginning activities in the city of São Paulo, at present PRO-VIDA has participating nuclei in various other Brazilian towns and in other countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and the United States of America, besides four country clubs: three in Brazil and one in Argentina.

Quenstedtite

It was first reported in 1888 for an occurrence in Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile and named by G. Linck in 1889 for the German mineralogist F. A. von Quenstedt.

Required navigation performance

Since 2009, regulators in Perú, Chile and Ecuador have deployed more than 25 RNP-AR approach procedures, designed in conjunction with LAN Airlines.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Puerto Montt

The archdiocese, which comprises the entire province of Llanquihue in the Los Lagos region of Chile, covers a territory of 18,205 km² and has 31 parishes.

Roxana Briban

She also appeared at the Vienna Volksoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Théâtre du Capitole, the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile and the Muziektheater in Amsterdam.

Spotted houndshark

The spotted houndshark, Triakis maculata, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on the continental shelves in the eastern Pacific from the Galapagos Islands and Peru to northern Chile, between latitudes and 30° S.

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).

Virgilio Paz Romero

According to the National Security Archive, Virgilio Paz met DINA agent Michael Townley and Italian terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie in Madrid, in 1975, to prepare, with the help of Francisco Franco's secret police, the murder of Christian Democrat Bernardo Leighton.


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