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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.
Constructed in 1521, Casa Blanca served as the initial fortification for the San Juan islet and was intended to be the residence of Juan Ponce de León and his family. However, de León passed away during an expedition to Florida without ever residing in the house. Subsequently, it sheltered his descendants until the mid-18th century.
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).
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.
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 ...
Its capital is Puerto Montt; other important cities include Osorno, Castro, Ancud, and Puerto Varas. Los Lagos Region is considered part of Patagonia. Historically, the Huilliche have called this territory between Bueno River and Reloncaví Sound Futahuillimapu, meaning "great land of the south".
Lake Todos los Santos (Spanish for "All Saints Lake") is a lake located in the Los Lagos Region of southern Chile, 96 km northeast of the regional capital Puerto Montt and 76 km east of Puerto Varas, within the boundaries of the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park. It has a surface area of 178.5 km² and a maximum depth of 337 m. [9]
As a commune, Casablanca is a third-level administrative division of Chile, administered by a municipal council, which is headed by a directly elected alcalde. The 2021-2024 mayor is Francisco Riquelme López (FA). The communal council has the following members: [1] Rodrigo Martínez Roca; Roberto Burgos González; Pedro Caussade Pitté; Ángel ...