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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

Chile tops VirtualTourist’s “Top Ten Places Off the Beaten Path”

Photo by Juan Carlos Labarca/Flickr.

Travel site’s members and editors cited Chile’s biodiversity and variety of natural settings as reasons to choose the country for an adventurous vacation this year.

Daily life

Iconic Chilean venue features great music at good prices

Photo by Galpón Victor Jara (oficial) / Facebook

One of Barrio Brasil’s crown jewels, Galpón Victor Jara is ideal for those with a penchant for live music without the inflated price tag.

Education

New book examines over a hundred fascinating fungi in Chile

The Russula sardonia, one of many mushrooms found in Chile’s Bío Bío region. Photo by Hongos Chile/

The Fungi Foundation in Chile has released a new field book that catalogues mushrooms from the Atacama to Patagonia.

Business

Chile and New Zealand to enter geothermal energy partnership

Geothermal well near Tolhuaca Volcano in southern Chile. Photo by GeoGlobal Energy Chile.

A strategic partnership between the two nations hopes to tap Chile’s massive potential in the renewable energy resource.