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4 unusual facts about San Bernardo


Bartolomé Ferrelo

Cabrillo died on January 3, 1543, on the Island of San Bernardo, near the channel of Santa Barbara; but Ferrelo, who succeeded him in command, continued his discoveries northward up to lat.

Chilean Army order of battle

1st Artillery Regiment "Tacna" in San Bernardo (1º Regimiento de Artillería "Tacna"), reactivated on July 2009.

Eduardo Anguita

Eduardo Anguita was raised in San Bernardo, before integrating the College of the Augustine Fathers in Santiago.

Santiago Metro Line 2

Since 2009, the Municipality of San Bernardo and the Santiago Metro began planning a future extension of Line 2 to the south, running from La Cisterna to San Bernardo’s central square.


Juan Acevedo Pavez

Juan Acevedo Pavez (November 8, 1914 – August 27, 2010) was a Chilean politician, who held office as regidor and mayor of the commune of San Bernardo, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, representing the Eighth Departmental Group of Melipilla, San Antonio, San Bernardo, and Maipo.


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Elaltitan

The holotype specimen was collected by an expedition of the Fundación Miguel Lillo and the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, led by José Fernando Bonaparte, from the right (southern) bank of the Senguerr River, in the area between the bend of this river and the Pampa de María Santísima, southeast of the southernmost part of the Sierra de San Bernardo, Chubut Province.

Juan Fermín de Huidobro

Governor Juan Muñoz Gadea commissioned him to start construction of the Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle in La Asunción, on the site of the old San Bernardo fortress.

Pukapuka

The Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña saw it on the feast day of Saint Bernard, on Sunday 20 August 1595 and named it San Bernardo.