​Chile is in South America

*Full name: Republic of Chile

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*​The capital of Chile

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*Full name: Republic of Chile

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​​*Population:

18 million people (2021)

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​*Government: Democracy, Republic

​The current Chilean President is: Sebastián Piñera

​Chile's currency is the Chilean peso.

1 Chilean peso= 0.0013 United States Dollar

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​That means....

​$20 USD equals 15655.00000 CLP

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​In Chile: A Big Mac costs $2.60 USD, or 2050 CLP (https://www.globalprice.info/en/ )

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​Chile's history...

​The country was inhabited by the Inca in the North and the Mapuche people in the centre and southern parts before the arrival of the Spanish colonialists. The country gained full independence from Spain in 1810.

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​Here is the Chilean national anthem...

​Atacama desert

Chile is home to the world's largest dry desert: the Atacama desert. This desert plateau is nestled between the coastal mountains and the Andes mountains. 

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​Chilean coastline

​Chile is larger in size than Texas/USA and has almost 6,500 km/ 4,038 miles of mainly rugged coastline.

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​Easter Island

​Dumb Dumb give me gum gum!

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​Volantines...

​small kites.

​Viña del mar...

​A popular destination for tourists and sun bathers.

​Palifitos

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​El pastel de choclo

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​Pablo Neruda

​Neruda wrote many love poems. He also wrote poems about food-- like this one below, translated, https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/chile/articles/the-most-famous-poems-by-pablo-neruda/

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​Ode to tomatoes

“The street filled with tomatoes, midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets.

In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen, it enters at lunchtime, takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars.

It sheds its own light, benign majesty.”

​La fiesta de tirana

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​More about the festival, its origins, dances, food, and music! (an Incan princess, eating llamas, and more!)

Type the address into your browser:

https://www.amexessentials.com/about-fiesta-de-la-tirana-chile/

​Celebrated every julio.