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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.
The Bay of Concepción is a natural bay on the coast of the Province of Concepción in the Bío Bío Region of Chile. Within the bay are many of the most important ports of the region and the country, among them Penco, Talcahuano, and Lirquén. Quiriquina Island, located to the north in the mouth of the bay provides a windbreak. The island ...
Several ships of the Chilean Navy have been named Blanco Encalada after Manuel Blanco Encalada (1790–1876), a Vice Admiral and Chile's first President . Chilean frigate Blanco Encalada (1875), an Almirante Cochrane-class central battery ironclad launched in 1874 as the Valparaiso, renamed Blanco Encalada in 1890, and sunk by a torpedo in 1891 during the Chilean Civil War, it was the first ...
Bangladesh and Chile have always expressed their interest to expand bilateral trade. [2] Because of its strategic location, Chile has been identified as an important market for the expansion of Bangladeshi products in Latin America. Many Bangladeshi companies have entered the Chilean market, the most prominent being Beximco Pharmaceuticals ...
Carlini Base (Spanish: Base Carlini), formerly known as Jubany Base, [2] is an Argentine permanent base and scientific research station named after scientist Alejandro Ricardo Carlini (previously it had been named after Argentine naval pilot José Isidro Jubany). [2] It is located on Potter Cove, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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 partially collapsed 21-story O'Higgins Tower, Concepción. The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto del 27F) [7] occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34:12 local time (06:34:12 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes.
Los Lagos Region (Spanish: Región de Los Lagos pronounced [los ˈlaɣos], lit. 'Region of the Lakes') is one of Chile's 16 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno and Palena.