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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.

More about Chile

Tourism

Exploring Chiloé’s iconic churches in southern Chile

Iglesia de Dalcahue on Isla Grande de Chiloé. Photo by Gwynne Hogan / This is Chile.

This is Chile provides a day-long itinerary for exploring three of Chiloé’s unique UNESCO world heritage churches.

Daily life

New York Times Magazine photos on display in Chilean capital

From “The Kuwaiti Inferno” by Sebastião Salgado/Facebook.

Visual essays going back 25 years showcase the publication’s diverse and pioneering photo documentation.

Education

Chilean telescope captures extremely rare sight

Telescope captures brilliant image of dying star. Photo courtesy of ESO.

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert have captured the spectacular image of a dying star.

Business

Chile and Macau set to ink new free trade agreement

Macau Tower, Macau. Photo by elvisinchina/Flickr.

Deal with Chinese administrative region to follow existing agreement with Hong Kong.