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	AllRefer.com - Santiago, city, Chile, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		4,395,000), central Chile, capital of Chile and of Metropolitana de Santiago region, on the Mapocho River.
		Laid out according to Valdivia's plan in a gridiron pattern between the hill of Santa LucIa and the Mapocho, a mountain torrent, Santiago has spread over a broad valley plain and is today one of the largest cities in South America.
		Focal point of the intellectual and cultural development of Chile from colonial times to the present, Santiago has many national establishments : the library, the museum, the theater, and (besides other institutions of higher learning) the National Univ., which is the successor to the Univ. of San Felipe, founded by a royal decree of 1758.
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	ipedia.com: Santiago de Chile Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This was because the Mapocho River split in two, and rejoined further downstream, forming an island.
		The south bank of the Mapocho River was drained and converted into a public promenade, known as the Alameda (now Avenida Alameda Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins).
		Another major problem has been the contamination of the river Mapocho by industrial and household waste, which was dumped unfiltered into the river, and mining waste from upstream; there are a number of copper mines in the Andes east of Santiago.
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	SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE - Online Information article about SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE
		province of the same name, on the Mapocho See also:
		river, a small tributary of the Maipu or Maipo,115 M. of See also:
		The Mapocho, once the cause of destructive inundations (especially in 1609 and 1783), was enclosed with solid embankments during the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAC_SAR/SANTIAGO_or_SANTIAGO_DE_CHILE.html (1020 words)

	Santiago
		Laid out according to Valdivia's plan in a gridiron pattern between the hill of Santa Lucía and the Mapocho, a mountain torrent, Santiago has spread over a broad valley plain and is today one of the largest cities in South America.
		Focal point of the intellectual and cultural development of Chile from colonial times to the present, Santiago has many national establishments—the library, the museum, the theater, and (besides other institutions of higher learning) the National Univ., which is the successor to the Univ. of San Felipe, founded by a royal decree of 1758.
		In 1863 the Campañía Church, with doors that opened inward, caught fire from a falling lamp, and 2,000 worshipers perished.
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	People (from Santiago) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		city, La Coruña provincia, capital of the comunidad autonóma (“autonomous community”) of Galicia, northwestern Spain, near the confluence of the Sar and Sarela rivers, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of La Coruña city.
		Santiago is the Spanish for St. James, whose shrine the city possesses.
		It lies on the canalized Mapocho River, in view of high Andean peaks to the east.
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