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  Demographics of Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chile is a relatively homogenous country, and most of its population are of Spanish origin with varying levels of Amerindian admixture.
Chile's population growth is among the lowest in Latin America, at around 0.97%, it comes third only to Uruguay and Cuba.
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 Chile - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chile is the longest (N-S) country in the world (over 4,200km), and also claims a large section of Antarctica as part of its territory.
Chile controls Easter Island, the easternmost island of Polynesia, which it incorporated to its territory in 1888, and Robinson Crusoe Island, some 400 km from the mainland, in the Juan Fernández archipelago.
Chile was an important center of culture in the ancient Inca empire, and was afterwards dominated by the Spanish.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Chile   (4920 words)

  
 Chile - Wikipedia
The Republic of Chile, or República de Chile, is located on the southwestern coast of South America.
Chile has a large service sector[?] and has one of the worlds most liberalized and modern telecommunications infrastructures.
In May of 2002, Chile was the first country of its continent to sign a free trade agreement with the European Union.
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 Articles - Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chile´s Constitution was approved in a highly irregular national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of Augusto Pinochet.
Chile is a strong proponent of pressing ahead on negotiations for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and active in the WTO’s Doha round of negotiations, principally through its membership in the G-20 and Cairns Group.
Chile is a relatively homogenous country, and most of its population is of mestizo origin in various degrees, the product of the racial mixture between colonial Spanish immigrants and the native Amerindian tribes.
www.izeez.com /articles/Chile   (5353 words)

  
 Chile Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
The rivers of Chile are generally short and swift flowing, rising in the well-watered Andean highlands and flowing generally W to the Pacific Ocean; the Loa and Baker rivers are the longest, but those in the central portion of the country are much more important because of their use for irrigation and power production.
S Chile, extending from the Bío-Bío to Cape Horn, is cold and humid, with dense forests, heavy rainfall, snow-covered peaks, fjords, glaciers, and islands Sects.
Chile also became involved in serious border troubles with Argentina; it was as a sign and symbol of the end of this trouble that the Christ of the Andes was dedicated in 1904.
www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Chile.html   (2503 words)

  
 Chile - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Other theories say Chile may derive its name from the indigenous Mapuche word chilli, which may mean "where the land ends" or "the deepest point of the Earth," or from the Aymara tchili meaning "snow"; another meaning attributed to chilli is the onomatopoeic cheele-cheele—the Mapuche imitation of a bird call.
Chile's Constitution was approved in a tightly controlled national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of Augusto Pinochet.
Chile unilaterally lowered its across-the-board import tariff for all countries with which it does not have a trade agreement to 6% in 2003.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Chile
Chile controls Easter Island, the easternmost island of Polynesia, which it incorporated to its territory in 1888, and Robinson Crusoe Island, some 400 km from the mainland, in the Juan Fernandez archipelago.
Chile registered an inflation rate of 1.1% in 2003 and is expected to see a 2.6% increase in 2004.
Chile unilaterally lowered its across-the-board import tariff—for all countries with which it does not have a trade agreement—to 6% in early 2003.
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 Chile
Pedro de Valdivia The first Europeans to arrive in Chile were Diego de Almagro and his band of Spanish conquistadors, who came from Peru in 1535 seeking gold but were turned back by the local population.
Main article: Culture of Chile Chile was an important center of culture in the ancient Inca empire, and was afterwards dominated by the Spanish.
Chile's Coat of Arms The coat of arms depicts the two national animals: the condor (''Vultur gryphus'', a very large bird that lives in the mountains) and the huemul (''Hippocamelus bisulcus,'' an endangered white tail deer).
chile.ask.dyndns.dk   (4829 words)

  
 Chile - Gurupedia
It is a long and narrow piece of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
The Central-zone is dedicated mostly to services and industry, with the main harbor, Valparaíso, Chile, also situated in this part of the country.
The population of Chile is mostly white and
www.gurupedia.com /c/ch/chile.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Chile
Toward the end of the 19th century, the government in Santiago consolidated its position in the south by ruthlessly suppressing the 83), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.
Chile established a parliamentary style democracy in the late 19th century, but degenerated into a system protecting the interests of the ruling Marxist groups with strong popular support arose.
In Salvador Allende Gossens, a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the "Chilean Congress conducted a runoff vote between the leading candidates, Allende and former president Jorge Alessandri and chose Allende by a vote of 153 to 35.
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 Chile Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
Chile is the longest (N-S) country in the world (over 4,200 km / 2,600 mi), and also claims 1,250,000 square kilometers (482,628 sq.
Chile controls Easter and Sala-y-Gómez Islands, the easternmost islands of Polynesia, which it incorporated to its territory in 1888, and Robinson Crusoe Island, more than 600 kilometers (375 mi) from the mainland, in the Juan Fernández archipelago.
Chile is a relatively homogenous country and most of its population is of Spanish origin with varying degrees of Amerindian admixture.
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 Share and Discover Chile Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During his government Chile's economy had their best years, although bad managing during last year plus the fact of the Asian crisis in 1998 got the country involved in a very bad situation affecting mainly to the middle class and to the small-Mid-Sized Companies.
Chile's current president-elect is the former health and later defense minister Michelle Bachelet, daughter of Alberto Bachelet, an air force general who was captured and tortured in the military coup of 1973 and died shortly after.
Chile's judiciary is independent and includes a network of courts of appeals, a system of military courts, a constitutional tribunal, and the Supreme Court of Chile.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/chile   (6760 words)

  
 Chile Internet Usage Population and Telecom Reports
Chile is the regional leader in terms of convergence.
Chile was the second country in the region (Mexico was the first) to have free trade agreements with the major western economies.
Chile’s mobile industry is one of the most competitive in Latin America, but the number of mobile companies decreased from four to three in January 2005, with the merger of Telefónica Móvil de Chile and BellSouth Chile.
www.internetworldstats.com /sa/cl.htm   (584 words)

  
 Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
While the main industry of the northern part of Chile is mining related, the southern half has quite extensive agricultural, fish farming and forestry sectors.
Chile has a large service sector and has a modern and liberalized telecommunications infrastructure.
Recently, Chile has signed Free Trade Agreements with many countries and trade blocks such as the European Union, EFTA, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South Korea and is currently negotiating FTAs with countries such as New Zealand, Singapore and Peru.
www.info-pedia.net /about/chile   (2704 words)

  
 Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chile is unique for its very long (2,650 miles) and comparatively narrow (maximum 250 miles) shape and for its great variety of natural features.
It is bound on the north by Peru, on the northeast by Bolivia, on its long eastern border (3,200miles) by Argentina and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
In its economy and public services, Chile is one of the most developed countries in the Andean region.
www.ddg.com /LIS/aurelia/chile.htm   (161 words)

  
 Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first Europeans to arrive in Chile were Diego de Almagro and his band of Spanish conquistadors in 1541, who came from Peru in 1535 seeking gold.
In 1970, Senator Salvador Allende, a Marxist and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the "Popular Unity" (UP) coalition of socialists, communists, radicals, and dissident Christian Democrats, won a plurality of votes in a three-way contest and was named President by the Chilean Congress.
Main article: Politics of Chile The country's current constitution was adopted in 1981 during the military government led by Augusto Pinochet and increased the power of the president and institutionalized the participation of the commanders in chief of the armed forced.
chile.kiwiki.homeip.net   (2708 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Chile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During the early 1990s, Chile's reputation as a role model for economic reform was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio AYLWIN - which took over from the military in 1990 - deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.
Chile's economy began a slow recovery in 2003, growing 3.2%, and accelerated to 6.1% in 2004-05, while Chile maintained a low rate of inflation.
Chile deepened its longstanding commitment to trade liberalization with the signing of a free trade agreement with the US, which took effect on 1 January 2004.
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