2. Geography: Simple Facts From North to South Chile is 2,880 miles long From East to West Chile, at it's widest part is only 265 miles wide. Altogether it contains 292,260 squire miles of land, and a wide variety of climate zone, terrain, animals, and plants The Atacama Desert is known for the rich amount of minerals found within it A well known volcano is the Parinacota Volcano
3. Geography:Climate There are, within Chile's borders seven different subtypes of climate. This is because of it's large geographic scale Chile spans anywhere from deserts to alpine tundra's to tropical climates and anywhere in the middle. It's climates allow a vast variety of plants and animals to inhabit Chile.
4. Geography:Biodiversity Animals- many Latin American animals have adapted to live in Chile A wide variety of birds, whales, and fish have been found to thrive there Plants-Chile has a wide botanical variety because of it's wide climate range. In some areas plants flourish and grow rapidly In other areas it's either to cold and rugged or to hot and dry for hardly anything to survive
5. People: Indigenous Communities Are about 4.6 % of the total population 691,000 people as of 2002 registered people from indigenous orgins Indigenous people include the Mapuches, Aymara, Atacamerio, Rapa Nui, and the Kawaskhar The Mapuches make up about 85% of the indegenous people from Chile today
6. People: Immigration Many people immigrated from Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Greece, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Stotland, Croatia, and the Middle East during the 16th century Spain had the most people immigrating into Chile at the time Today people immigrate frome Europe, America, and Asia People now mainly Immigrate from Argentina and Peru
7. People: Religion and Languages There are many religions in Chile Most people identify themselves as Catholics, about 70% of the country Spanish is spoken in Chile but it's accent and dialect are different depending on the regions The "s" sound is dropped and other consontents are spoken softly, this is unique to the Spanish spoken in Chile
8. History: Colonization About 10,000 years ago Native Americans settled in what is now Chile The Mapuches were the largest inhabitants of Chile In 1540 the conquest of Chile began and was lead by Pedro de Valdivia He founded the city of Santiago on February 12, 1541 Because of the agricultural potienial of Chile, it became part of the Spanish Empire
9. History: 19th and 20th Centuries Chile was proclaimed an independent republic on February 12, 1818 The social structure of Chile, however, didn't change much It's social structure was influenced mainly on family politics and the Roman Catholic church During the beginning of the 20th century Chile was politically unstable It chenged hands of some ten different governments
10. History: 20th Century In 2000 Ricardo Lagos won the Chilean election to presidency In 2006 Michelle Bachelet Jeria was elected, Chile's first female president In 2010 Sabastian Pinera was elected, he was the first rightest President to be elected in twenty years On February 27, 2010 Chile was hit by an 8.8 earthquake, it's estimated about 500 people died, buildings were destroyed and severly damaged
