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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Northern Chile, including the recently occupied Peruvian province of Tacna and the Bolivian province of Tarapacá, etc. are arid along the coast, and the soil is alkaline; south of these provinces fertile valleys abound; the timbered southern extremity is cold, and glaciers reach the seashore. |
 | | Chile has gold, silver, copper, iron, nitrates, borates and coal; all of these minerals are worked by the people of the country as well as by foreign enterprise. |
 | | Chile has, in the southern and central sections, a number of rivers, some of which are partly navigable, at least for smaller craft. |
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