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The Chile Triple Junction (or Chile Margin TripleJunction) is a geologic triple junction located on theseafloor of the Pacific Ocean off Taitao and Tres MontesPeninsula on the southern coast of Chile. Here threetectonic plates meet: the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate, andthe Antarctic Plate. This triple junction is unusual inthat it consists of a mid-oceanic ridge, the Chile Rise, beingsubducted under the South American Plate at the Peru- Chile Trench. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder Pedro de Valdivia and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia and Cau-Cau Rivers, approximately 15 km east of the coastal towns of Corral and Niebla. Since October 2007, Valdivia has been the capital of the newly created Los Ríos Region and is also the capital of Valdivia Province. The commune of Valdivia had 140,559 inhabitants (Valdivianos) of which 127,750 lived in the city according to the 2002 census. The main economic activities include tourism, wood pulp manufacturing, forestry, metallurgy, and beer production. The city is also the home of the Universidad Austral de Chile, founded in 1954, and Centro de Estudios Científicos. ... Read more

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From the author: The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is an endangered species. Even southern Patagonia, home to the most stable and abundant populations of Andean condors, is witnessing increasing pressure from development and tourism. Taking the case of Torres del Paine National Park, in the Chilean Patagonia, we examine monitoring of condor populations at roosting sites and communal bird behavior in response to humans as an effective tool for bird conservation within protected areas. Based on field data collected throughout 2007, we identify new roosting places, explore activity patterns and population characteristics of free-ranging and roosting Andean condors, examine bird behavior in response to humans, and analyze the current and likely future ecological impacts of tourism on the condor population and its habitat. Our results reveal that the impact of tourism is still low and that the Andean condors do not seem to be declining in numbers in the park but that the importance of roosts and animal behavior in response to humans must be considered for future monitoring, bird-conservation planning, and ecotourism management. Keywords: Andean condor (Vultur gryphus L.), bird behavior, Chilean Patagonia, distribution, ecotourism, wildlife conservation.

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Title: Roost sites and communal behavior of Andean condors in Chile.(Report)
Author: Thora Martina Herrmann
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 100Issue: 2Page: 246(17)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafael is a town in the commune of Tomé, in Concepción Province, in the Biobío Region of Chile.Originally a crossroads on the Camino Real between Concepcion and Chillan and Santiago. It was first the site of a mill on the Pingueral River. On October 24, 1657, Pedro Porter Casanate built a fort San Rafael de Coelemu to protect the Royal roads and secure the Coelemu region from the attacks of the Mapuche. Later a Jesuit encomienda and a church were established there. In 1835, it became the capital of the Department of Coelemu, until the town of Coelemu replaced Rafael as the capital in January 1854. On October 22, 1891, Rafael was made a municipality. On December 30, 1927, it became part of the new Department of Tomé. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zona central (Central Zone, Central Chile) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950. It is home to a majority of the Chilean population and includes the three largest metropolitan areas- Santiago, Valparaíso, and Concepción. It extends from about 32° south latitude to about 37° south latitude.The climate is of the temperate Mediterranean type, with the amount of rainfall increasing considerably and progressively from north to south. In the Santiago area, the average monthly temperatures are about 19.5 °C in the summer months of January and February and 7.5 °C in the winter months of June and July. The average monthly precipitation is no more than a trace in January and February and 69.7 millimeters in June and July. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valley of the Moon (Valle de la Luna) is located 13 kilometers west of San Pedro in the Cordillera de la Sal, in the Atacama desert of Chile. It has various stone and sand formations which have been created through the centuries by floods and wind and has also given it an impressive range of color and texture, looking somewhat similar to the surface of the moon. In Valle de la Luna, there are dry lakes where the composition of salt makes a white covering layer of the area. It presents diverse saline outcrops which appear like man-made sculptures. There are also a great variety of caverns. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yungay is a Chilean town and commune in Ñuble Province, Biobío Region. The commune spans an area of 823.5 km (512 mi). According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, the Yungay commune had 16,814 inhabitants; of these, 11,469 (68.2%) lived in urban areas and 5,345 (31.8%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 8,565 men and 8,249 women residing in the commune. The commune grew 10% in population between the censuses of 1992 and 2002 (1.0% annual growth). As a commune, Yungay is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. ... Read more

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Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter- gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story. The book describes how these intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as ice-age Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the At0nikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yt.mana (Yahgan), and Kawashekar (Alacaluf), living, as the Europeans saw it, in a state of savagery. The first contacts led to tales of a race of giants and, ever since, Patagonia has exerted a special hold on the European imagination. Tragically, by the mid-twentieth century, the last remnants of the indigenous way of life had disappeared for ever. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival, and eventual extinction. Accompanied by 110 striking photographs, they are published to accompany a major exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London.The contributors are Gillian Beer, Luis Alberto Borrero, Anne Chapman, Chalmers M. Clapperton, Andrew P. Currant, Jean-Paul Duviols, Mateo Martinic B., Robert D. McCulloch, Colin McEwan, Francisco Mena L., Alfredo Prieto, Jorge Rabassa, and Michael Taussig. ... Read more

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Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. This sophisticated study explores the narrative architecture of Allende's House of the Spirits (1982), Daughter of Fortune (1999), and Portrait in Sepia (2000) as a trilogy, proposing that the places created in these novels subvert the patriarchal norms that have governed politics, sexuality, and ethnicity. Rooted in the Foucauldian premise that the history of space is essentially the history of power, and supported by Susan Stanford Friedman's cultural geographies of encounter as well as Gloria Anzaldúa's study of borderlands, this study shows that, by rejecting traditional spatial hierarchies, Allende's trilogy systematically deterritorializes the elite while shifting the previously marginalized to the physical and thematic centers of her works. This movement provides the narrative energy which draws the reader into Allende's universe, and sustains the 'good story' for which she has been universally acclaimed. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Revista Cartográfica, published by Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2359 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Recovery of the South American Gravity Network. Efforts on Paraguay and Chile.
Author: Denizar Blitzkow
Publication: Revista Cartográfica (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Issue: 74-75Page: 113(8)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the Antofagasta Region. Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just 5 mm (0.2 inches)[citation needed]. The River Loa, Chile's longest, flows through the city. Calama has a population of 143,000 (2005 census). ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Río Verde is Chile a Municipality and settlement in Magallanes Province and Region. The municipality is located in the area surrounding Seno Skyring, a sea inlet north of Riesco Island. Magallanes Province is part of the Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region, located on the Northern coast of the Strait of Magellan, its capital city is Punta Arenas, being its upper limit Ultima Esperanza and Tierra del Fuego its southern one. It has an area of 36,995 km² and a population of 118,243 inhabitants, according to INE's 2002 census. This is the main terrestrial and aerial entry point to the southernmost region in Chile. Either coming from Argentina, via Río Gallegos by car, or by plane, arriving at the Carlos Ibáñez del Campo airport. ... Read more

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Title: Aspectos sobre os resíduos sólidos urbanos domesticos da região metropolitana de Santiago-Chile *.
Author: Elias Antônio Vieira
Publication: Revista Geográfica (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Issue: 132Page: 15(17)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nacimiento (English: Birth) is a rural town of Chile situated in the Bío-Bío Region, 550 km south of Santiago de Chile, and 104 km from the closest major town of the region, Concepción.It was first used as a fort for the Spanish army to advance and control the territory, and it was officially baptised on Christmas Eve of December of 1603 with the name of Nacimiento de Nuestro Señor (Nativity of Our Lord). Destroyed in the later risings of the Mapuche and repaired in 1665, 1724 and for the last time in 1739, it was transferred with its inhabitants in 1749 to the site of the current town. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Valparaíso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia View of Valparaíso Bay in 1830Valparaíso's bay was first populated by picunches indians, the ones were dedicated to agriculture. Some people have said that it was the Changos the inhabitants in Valparaiso but that is not quite true because Changos were nomads dedicated to fishing travelling between Caldera and Concepcion (So, please don´t trust the lonely planet guidebook). Spanish explorers arrived in 1536, onboard the Santiaguillo, a supply ship sent by Diego de Almagro, who is considered the first European explorer, or discoverer, of Chile. The Santiaguillo carried men and supplies for Almagros expedition, under the command of Juan de Saavedra, who named the town after his native village of Valparaíso de Arriba in Cuenca, Spain. During Spanish colonial times, Valparaíso remained a small village, with only a few houses and a church. After Chiles independence from Spain, Valparaíso became the main harbour for the nascent Chilean navy, and opened to international trade, which had been limited to commerce with Spain and its other colonies. Valparaíso soon became a required stopover for ships crossing between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, via the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn, and gained particular importance supporting and supplying the California Gold Rush (18481858). In its role as a major seaport, Valparaíso received immigrants from many European countries, mainly from Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. German, French, Italian and English were commonly spoken among its citizens, who also had newspapers in these same languages. International immigration transformed the local culture from its Spanish origins. Football was introduced to Chile by English immigrants, and the first ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=70566 ... Read more

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Title: Impactos espaciales y socioeconômicos de la vitivinicultura en Chile y Argentina.
Author: Margarita Riffo Rosas
Publication: Revista Geogrâfica (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Issue: 143Page: 163(47)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Victoria is a town and commune in Malleco Province of Araucanía Region, Chile. It is the second most populous city in the province of Malleco, and is the gateway to the area known as Araucanía Andina, with attractions such as the Tolhuaca National Park , the Baths of Tolhuaca Malalcahuello National Reserve and communes of Curacautín and Lonquimay. The climate is influenced by the vicinity of the temperate rainforest in Chile. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Revista Geogrâfica, published by Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 7167 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Calidad de vida rural a inicios del siglo XXI: anâlisis de caso en comunas de la provincia de Òuble, regiôn del Bio Bîo, Chile.
Author: Didima Olave F.
Publication: Revista Geogrâfica (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Issue: 143Page: 29(18)

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