LM in Plaza

Punta Arenas

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January 17th 2009
Punta Arenas As our goal was to get down south as fast as possible, we flew down to Punta Arenas from Santiago. We had glimpses of the Chilean lakes district and many snow-capped volcanoes along the way. According to Wikipedia, Punta Arenas is located on the Brunswick Peninsula and is the southernmost city of its size in the world. (Ushuaia, Argentina, also makes this claim and is f ... 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