Santiago

Santiago, Chile and beyond

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February 16th 2010
Santiago, Chile is a city of many layers. Centered around a pleasantly clean skyscraper filled downtown, many of the residents live in the surrounding suburbs. Views of The Andes in the distance through the haze of summer smog look over the city of over 5 million. As I spent 6 days in the city and surrounding area the few things that stuck out were the exellent, cheap, frequent, clean metr ... 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