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Plaza in Olmué. Olmué is a Chilean town and commune located in the Marga Marga Province, Valparaíso Region.The commune spans an area of 231.8 km 2 (89 sq mi). [2] Olmué is located 42.8 miles northwest of Santiago and 42 kilometers east northeast of Valparaíso.
Olmué Airport (Spanish: Aeródromo de Olmué), (ICAO: SCOM) is an airport serving Olmué, a city in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. There is nearby mountainous terrain northwest through east, and more distant mountainous terrain in other quadrants.
The islands of Chile encompass the various islands that the government of Chile has sovereignty over. By far the majority of these are the islands in the south of the country. Chile has one of the world's longest coastlines, and one of the most dangerous for boats; it is more than 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) long and has at least 43,471 islands ...
Law N° 17.288 concerning national monuments stipulates that: National monuments are places, ruins, constructions or objects of historical or artistic character; burial sites or cemeteries or other remains of aborigines, anthropo-archaeological, paleontological or natural formation pieces or objects, which exist under or on the surface of the national territory or underwater within its ...
The Olmué Festival (Spanish: Festival del Huaso de Olmué) is a music festival that has been held annually during the 3rd week of February in Olmué, Central Chile.The first edition dates back to 1970 being televised for the first time in 1984. [1]
The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long (1,000-mile) strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km 2 (41,000 sq mi), [2] which increases to 128,000 km 2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.
The Central Valley (Spanish: Valle Central), Intermediate Depression, or Longitudinal Valley is the depression between the Chilean Coastal Range and the Andes Mountains. The Chilean Central Valley extends from the border with Peru [A] to Puerto Montt in southern Chile, with a notable interruption at Norte Chico (27°20'–33°00' S).
Zona Sur (Southern Zone) is one of the five natural regions on which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950. Its northern border is formed by the Bío-Bío River, which separates it from the Central Chile Zone. The Southern Zone borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, and to the east lies the Andean mountains and Argentina.