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unusual facts about Santiago Chile



Women in the California Gold Rush

Other French prostitutes showed up from French settlements in Lima Peru and Santiago Chile.


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1986 South American Games

The III South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1986 in Santiago, Chile, with some events in Concepción and Viña del Mar.

25531 Lessek

It is named after Justin Lessek, an American educator who has taught in Chicago, Illinois, Santiago, Chile, and Washington, DC.

Barrio Yungay

Barrio Yungay is a neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, located to the west of the city center in the commune of Santiago and to the west of Barrio Brasil.

Boliviana de Aviación

Boliviana de Aviación also plans to open new routes for 2011: Caracas (Venezuela), Havana (Cuba), Lima (Perú) and Santiago (Chile).

Catherine McAuley High School

The Spanish department runs an annual exchange with the Colegios Padre Hurtados y Juanita de los Andes in Santiago, Chile.

Celinto Catayente Towers

The Celinto Catayente Towers in Santiago, Chile, is a fictional place mentioned in the American film There's Something About Mary by the character Pat Healy (played by Matt Dillon).

Francisco Ou

He has also been director of the Far East Commercial Office in Santiago, Chile (1975-1981), director of the Taiwan Commercial Office in Argentina (1986–90) and representative for the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Spain (2000–03).

Gonzalo Lira

Tomáh Errázurih (Grijalbo Mondadori, Santiago, Chile: 1997. ISBN 978-956-258-057-1.)

Gran Torre Santiago

The Gran Torre Santiago (Spanish for "Grand Santiago Tower"), previously known as Torre Gran Costanera, is a 64-story tall skyscraper under construction in Santiago, Chile.

Gregorio José de Toro, 2nd Count of la Conquista

Gregorio José de Toro was born in Santiago, Chile, the second son of Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of la Conquista and of his wife, María Nicolasa de Valdés y de la Carrera.

Hooktooth dogfish

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

Joel-Peter Witkin

The film will be part of the permanent collections at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France, and the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile in Santiago, Chile.

José Muñoz-Cortes

Jose (Joseph) Muñoz-Cortes (a privately tonsure monk Ambrose; 13 May 1948, Santiago, Chile - 30/31 October 1997, Athens, Greece) was an Orthodox clergyman, the keeper of the Iveron Icon of Montreal.

Julio César Moreno

Julio César Moreno Yáñez (born 27 September 1969 in Santiago, Chile) is a Football Manager.

La Grandiosa Bertita

La Grandiosa Bertita (The Grandiose Berta), is a Chilean fonda that is installed during the Fiestas Patrias in the O'Higgins Park in Santiago, Chile.

Laura Vicuña

The primary shrine for Laura Vicuña is located at Renca Hill, a park of 30 hectares lying between the communes of Quilicura and Renca in Santiago, Chile.

Museo de Arte Precolombino

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, pre-Columbian art museum located in Santiago, Chile

Paulina Ayala

She was born in Santiago, Chile and was a leader in the student movement and in citizens’ rights organizations under the Pinochet dictatorship.

Petit Palais

The Petit Palais has served as a model for other public buildings, notably for the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) in Santiago, Chile.

Rodrigo Jordan

Jordán attended The Grange School in Santiago, Chile, where he graduated in 1976, after earning the “Best Student of the Class” distinction and the “García Oldini Cup” for the best student in mathematics and physics.

Saltimbanco

The show played for another nine years, becoming the first Cirque du Soleil show to tour South America, with visits to Santiago, Chile (March 2006); Buenos Aires, Argentina (May 2006); and São Paulo (August 2006) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (October 2006).

Santa Julia metro station

Santa Julia station is a trenchmetro station located on Line 4A of the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile, between Vicuña Mackenna station and La Granja station in the commune of La Florida.

Santiago a Mil International Theater Festival

Santiago a Mil International Theatre Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil) is an annual performing arts festival that takes place in January in Santiago, Chile.

T. C. Steele

Steele’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious exhibitions, including the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) in Chicago, Illinois; the Five Hoosier Painters exhibition (1894) in Chicago; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) in Saint Louis; the International Exhibit of Fine Arts (1910) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile; and at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, California.

Thrill the World

In June 06, 2011 an organized flashmob “Thriller” dance was performed in front of the presidential palace of La Moneda in Santiago, Chile as a peaceful protest against the government’s education policies.

Tomáh Errázurih

Tomáh Errázurih (Random House Mondadori, Santiago, Chile, 1997) (ISBN 956-258-057-1) is a highly idiosyncratic, experimental Spanish language novel written by the American writer and filmmaker Gonzalo Lira.

Torre Mayor

Since then, multiple new buildings in Panama City have exceeded it in height and the Gran Torre Santiago in Santiago (Chile) (which is technically the tallest building in Latin America) has topped out at 300 meters (984 feet).

Vicuña Mackenna Avenue

Avenida Vicuña Mackenna (Vicuña Mackenna Avenue) is one of the main transport arteries of Santiago, Chile, joining Santiago center with more remote urban centers such as the communes of La Florida and Puente Alto.

Winter Pan American Games

The second Winter Pan American Games were to take place in Santiago, Chile in 1993, but due to scheduling problems, the United States Olympic Committee declined to participate, and PASO decided to cancel the Games.