"We spent the whole day on the summit, & I never enjoyed one more thoroughly. Chili & its boundaries the Andes & the Pacific were seen as in a Map."
Charles Darwin
My Voyage Around the World
August 17th, 1834
Survival of the not so Fittest; cerro la campana December 12th 2009 You may have heard that Charles Darwin sailed on a boat called the HMS Beagle and wound up writing a somewhat controversial book called On the Origin of Species. I once tried reading it and would not recommend it unless you yourself are stuck on a very slow boat sailing across the Atlantic, through the Straits of Magellan, up the coast of South America and then across the Pacific. What is perhap ... read more
South America » Chile » Valparaíso Region » La Campana National Park 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