Termas de Chillan

South to Central Chile (Puerto Montt to Santiago)

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April 17th 2011
The next stage of our trip was on the pan american highway from Puerto Montt to Santiago. It's just over 1000km to Santiago but as we soon found out, distances are much easier to cover on the pan american with paved roads and no headwind! Most days we did around 120-140km before stopping, although we usually leave shorter distances to cover on the days we're going to arrive in a city so that we ha ... read more

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago

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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