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Valparaiso - Funicular City

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October 9th 2009
For a long time – before the age of the Internet – Valparaiso had intrigued me. Not so much because the history, culture, or architecture. No, it was the exotic name I had seen written as the home port of ships every now and then, and I had no idea where it was located. Not intriguing enough to make me find an atlas and look it up, but sufficient to lodge itself somewhere in the back of my min ... read more

South America » Chile » Valparaíso Region » Valparaíso

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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