Overview of Chile

Capital
Santiago de Chile
Language
Spanish, mapudungún, aimara, rapanui
Population
16.1 million
Area
756,096 km²
Currency
Chilean Peso - CLP ($)

Chilean festivals

New Year The New Year is welcomed in cities throughout Chile with spectacular fireworks displays at ...

Christmas Like Christians around the world, Chileans commemorate the birth of Christ on December 25. ...

Fiesta de La Virgen de Andacollo The Festival of the Virgen of Andacollo, in the northern town of Andacollo, is ...

Winter Carnivals in the South The winter cold of the far south is brightened by the warmth of its ...

Fiesta de La Tirana La Tirana is a small town in the northern Tarapaca Region, near the city ...

Fiesta de San Pedro April is the month of the Chile + Cultura festival, organized nationwide by the ...

Indigenous New Year The indigenous peoples of Chile – the Aymara, Quechua, Rapa Nui and Mapuche nations ...

Grape Harvest Festival The prestige of Chilean wine is celebrated in a special way in the central ...

La Semana Valdiviana (Valdivian Week) There are more festivals in February. In southern Chile, the region of lakes and ...

El Carnavalón Also in February is the Carnavalón festival, held in the northern regions of in ...

Fiesta Tapati on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) On mystical Easter Island, the February Fiesta Tapati sees painted bodies become art. A ...

Chile

Chile is situated in the southwestern tip of South America between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean.

Its extensive length (4,200 kilometers, similar to a tour of Europe from Lisbon to Moscow) offers a huge variety of landscapes and climates throughout its territory, from the Atacama Desert -the driest in the world - in the far north to Patagonia’s millennia-old glaciers in the south.

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