ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
Posted by Jess is Jess , Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Okay people - I just had a conversation with my neighbor (!) and found out where he's from!
That's right, folks.
You guessed it!
Chile?
Wait, what?
Fine, so I was wrong about him being a cultured European.
He's actually a sophisticated South American.
So today's special will be all about the things I know about the country of Chile.
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My friend Nico's parents live there.
There are more than 2,000 volcanoes in Chile, of which 50 are actually active. (I love volcanoes)
Chile's coastline stretches 2,700 miles long, running from the Atacama, the world's most arid desert in the north, through forests, valleys, mountains, lakes, glacier fields, the Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Circle in the south. 
Chile is never more than 110 miles wide east to west.
Chile's area is slightly smaller than twice the size of Montana.
(People have accused me of having lungs the size of Montana).
Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while the indigenous Mapuche inhabited central and southern Chile.
They won independence from Spain on September 18, 1810
In 2009 the estimated fertility rate was 1.92 children born per woman.
Chile provides North America with almost 15 percent of all its fruit sales during the months of November through April.Chile is the home of two Nobel Prize winning poets, Gabriela Mistral (1945), and Pablo Neruda (1971).
David Selkirk, immortalized as Robinson Crusoe, survived a shipwreck and lived for several years on a desert island off the coast of Chile, no doubt thriving on the nutritional benefits of fresh fruit.
I would like to thank www.cffausa.org/dev/chile_tour/tour_chile/facts.php
and
I would like to thank https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world.../ci.html
I shall close with a quote from Pablo:
"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
Pablo Neruda
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