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Chile - Quick Facts
Capital: Santiago
Population: 19,548,231 App.
Total Area: 756,950 sq. Km
Coastline: 6,435 km
Type of Government: Republic
Money: Chilean Peso
Climate: Temperate; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region; cool and damp in south
Primary Language: Spanish
Religions: Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, Jewish NEGL%
Ethnic Groups: The major ethnic groups in Chile are Mestizo (mixed native American and European ancestry), which comprise 66 percent of the population; Europeans, which compromise 25 percent of the population and native American who make up 7 percent. Literacy is very high in Chile, and the majority of the people are Roman Catholic.
Tall, Thin & Well-managed
Very much an anomaly in the wilds of South America, Chile is a prosperous and forward thinking nation that today holds free trade agreements with the European Union, the United States, Canada, and South Korea. For years known as "The Jaguar of Latin America" Chile has developed a diverse economy based on mining & forestry, seafood & agriculture, wine and tourism ...
You may ask youself: How has such a seemingly ‘string bean’ of a land of barely 19 million people attracted such interest and commerce from so many nations so far away?
Just imagine a people, measured out along 4337 km of diverse super natural geography, who are at once inspired by the heritage of its ancient cultures, the Atacama Desert (the driest in the world), a fertile central valley (the bread, fruit, vegetable & wine basket of Chile), a lake district the length of Sweden, the wilds of Patagonia, the priveledged border made up by the Andes, not to mention all the mountains,volcanos and the uncharted wonders of Antarctica— all squeezed into a narrow strip between the heights of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean
