Regions are further divided into provinces, and these provinces are then divided into communes and municipalities. The Santiago Metropolitan Region is the largest region by population….Regions of Chile.

Santiago (Spanish: Santiago de Chile ) is Chile’s capital and largest city. It is situated at an elevation of 520 m (1700 ft) in the country’s central valley, and administratively is a part of the Santiago Metropolitan Region. Even though Santiago is the capital, legislative bodies meet in nearby Valparaíso.

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English is not widely spoken in Chile overall, with only around 10 percent of the population reported as being able to converse in English to some extent. Here are some of the areas in Chile where native or bilingual English speakers are likely to be more common: Central and touristy parts of Santiago.

Breakfast in Chile is usually light, consisting of a cup of coffee or tea and some buttered toast, sometimes accompanied by fruit or yogurt. Lunchtime is followed by a siesta, teatime then dinner late in the evening. Sometimes people skip dinner altogether and teatime becomes the last meal of the day.

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Chile is the leading exporter of fresh blueberries, grapes, plums, dried apples, and prunes. It is also the second-largest exporter of avocados, cherries, walnuts, and raspberries. Grape is the leading fruit, followed by apples and blueberries.

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Other theories say Chile may derive its name from a Native American word meaning either ‘ends of the earth’ or ‘sea gulls’; from the Mapuche word chilli, which may mean ‘where the land ends’” or from the Quechua chiri, ‘cold’, or tchili, meaning either ‘snow’ or “the deepest point of the Earth”.

Thus, for instance, UNAM professor of Latin American studies, Francisco Lizcano, in his social research estimates that a predominant 52.7% of the Chilean population can be classified as culturally European, with an estimated 44% as Mestizo. Other social studies put the total amount of Whites at over 60 percent.

Chile remained a colony of Spain for close to 300 years until Napoleon Bonaparte’s conquest of Spain weakened the country’s imperial grip on their South American colonies. Under Spanish colonial rule, northern and central Chile were part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 3000 BCE. By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony between 1540 and 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.

Early Settlement In 1520 Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to see Chile. In 1540 Pedro de Valdivia a Spanish conquistador came to Chile were he founded several cities, despite resistance from the Araucanians. One of these cities he founded was Santiago, which is now Chile’s capitol and largest city.

Ferdinand Magellan

President of Chile

The large cities and the industrial centres of central Chile attract a steady flow of internal migrants. Most of them head for the capital city of Santiago, with the rest going primarily to Valparaíso–Viña del Mar and to Concepción–Talcahuano.

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