CHILE

FOOD

• Being such a long country over a variety of landscapes chile has
• A lot of different types of food and drinks
• One of the highlights of Chilean food is its diversity of seafood due to its long coastline

FOOD

• In chile they have a high quality of red wine some of the wine will go for 800$!
• Chilean food is also is not spicy like food in Mexico
• The hot chili is not used to much in Chilean food

FOOD

• Some of the foods in chile you might see.
• Almejas con Limón - raw clams with lemon juice.
• Pastel de Jaiba - Chilean Crab Pie served in its own shell.
• Papaya con Crema - preserved papaya with whipped cream.
• All of these foods are served year round

SPORTS

• Soccer is the most popular sport in chile.
• In 1962 they hosted the FIFA World Cup and won third place
• They have never won the copa America cup, although they have
• Been the forth most times
• Carlos Alfredo Labrin was born in 2nd December, 1990 in Mulchén, Chile, he is the best player in chile

SPORTS

• Basketball is also a popular sport in chile
• It is mostly played in the southern part of chile
• They have only won a bronze medal in the FIBA world championship
• Ziomar Morrison is one of the best basketball players in chile she is currently playing in the WNBA

SPORTS

• Rugby is currently one of the fastest growing sports in chile
• Chile has never been to a rugby work cup but they are ranked 24th making them the third best in Latin America
• Rugby union has been played in chile sense at least 1880s, introduced by the British
• Ian Campbell is hall of fame rugby player and is considered one of the best players to play for chile

MONEY

• Chile currency is the peso
• The current peso has been around sense 1975
• The previous version was around 1817 and lasted till 1960

MONEY

• 1 Chilean peso is worth 0.0019 US dollars
• The first Chilean paper money was introduced around 1840 to 1844
• Between 1817 and 1851 silver coins were issued

MONEY

• In 1881, the government issued paper money convertible into silver or gold
• The last coins of the first peso were issued between 1954 and 1959

RELIGION

• About 63% of chile is Roman Catholic
• 15% of the Chileans are Protestant or Evangelical
• Agnostics and atheist were estimated at 18%
• 4% declared to have another religion.

RELIGION

• Traditionally, the Roman Catholic Church has held a privileged status in the country.
• There were also reports of discrimination against non-Catholics in military employment
• In march 2000 a new law was adopted allowing non catholic churches more rights

RELIGION

• Catholicism was brought in by Spanish priests during the 16th century
• The number of Catholics are declining there has been a decrease sense the 1970s by about 30%.

LANGUAGE

• The Republic of Chile is an overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking country
• with the exceptions of isolated native and immigrant communities
• According to Ethnologue, Chile has nine living languages and seven extinct.

LANGUAGE

• Of the 16 million Chileans, some 14 million speak Chilean Spanish as their first language.
• It is a Spanish dialect which is sometimes difficult for speakers of the Castilian variant of Spanish to understand
• It is very similar to Andalusian Spanish in pronunciation but it does have a lot of local slang.

LANGUAGE

• There are some 700,000 Mapuche living in Chile, of whom 200,000 speak Mapudungun.
• Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language of Easter Island, is spoken by some 3,400 Chileans
• Some indigenous languages of Chile now extinct are Diaguita, Kakauhua, Kunza and Selknam