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September 1st 2007
We are in the centro Santiago. The centro is roughly a triangle with points to the north, south and east. Parque Forestal runs along the northern leg of the triangle following the Rio Mapocho, an ugly angry brown river, that tears down from the mountains to the east. Barrio Belavista is sandwiched between the Rio Mapocho and the enormous hill Cerro San Cristobal. Atop the hill is the ubiqu ... read more

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more