CHILE

CHILE CONTENTS

• Geography
• Government
• Family life
• Sports
• Celebrations / festivals
• Food
• Famous people
• Money

GEOGRAPHY

CHILE GEOGRAPHY

Chile is known for its wide streached Andes Mountains. The mountains are very snowy and reach up to 5 feet! The Andes Mountains are also known for lots of skiing. The mountain has good skiing conditions by having lots of powdered snow.

It is the driest non-polar desert in the world. According to estimates the Atacama Desert proper occupies 105,000 square kilometres (41,000 sq mi), or 128,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.

GOVERNMENT

You would problaby be suprised to know that the Chilean president is a woman. Michelle Bachelet has been in office for four years but the Chilean president serves for a 10 year term

POPULATION

FAMILY LIFE

Like Latin Americans in general, Chileans are friendly. Chile is a vast mixture of races and nationalities such as Mapuches (the native Chileans), Aymara, Palestinians, Jews, Italians, Asians, Yugoslavians, Greeks and Germans.

The roles of men and women in the household are a little different too. We have observed that the women tend to wait on the men, and rather than helping themselves the men expect to be served.

SPORTS

Along with the rest of South America Chileans play Soccer
and value it as their number one sport

Chilies most successful sport is tennis. In rural areas, Chilean rodeo is the most practiced sport in Chile, which is the national sport, and is considered to be the second most popular sport, after football .

CELEBRATIONS

Vina del Mar International Song Festival
This festival is one of the biggest of its kind and is a competition for Pop and Folk music. Until 1968, only Chilean composers were allowed to compete.

New Year's Eve
Like in many Latin American countries, New Year's Eve is one of the largest celebrations of the year. In Chile, this celebration lasts three days, starting on the 29th and the biggest party is found in Valparaíso where even Pablo Neruda is said to have spent his New Year's watching the fireworks.

FOOD

"Pastel de choclo" is one of the most popular comfort foods in Chile. This dish is made of ground corn or choclo mixed with ground beef, chicken, onions, black olives, pieces of hard boiled eggs and spices and covered with a corn dough that crusts when baked.

Chilean cuisine has diversified greatly over the years with influences from the indigenous populations, Europeans, and even Middle-eastern peoples. This diverse cuisine is typically broken down into three different regions, Northern, Central, and Southern Chile.

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is a famous pop star. The Chileans love her there, she is kind of like the "Taylor Swift" of Chile.

Bernardo O'Higgins is best known for being the leader of Chilean independence from Spain and its first leader.

MONEY

The peso is the currency of Chile. The current peso has circulated since 1975, with a previous version circulating between 1817 and 1960.

Its symbol is defined as a letter "S" with either one or two vertical bars superimposed prefixing the amount.

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