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This analysis of modern Chilean society provides the historical basis for current trends, and serves as good background material for a composite study. ... Read more

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Chapters: Geography of Argentina, Geography of Bolivia, Geography of Brazil, Geography of Chile, Geography of Colombia, Geography of Ecuador, Geography of French Guiana, Geography of Guyana, Geography of Paraguay, Geography of Peru, Geography of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Geography of Suriname, Geography of Trinidad and Tobago, Geography of Uruguay, Geography of Venezuela, Geography of the Falkland Islands, Demographics of French Guiana, Guiana Shield, Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos, Paisa Region, Nova Iguaçu Volcano, Geology of the Falkland Islands, List of Rivers of Chile, List of Islands of Argentina, Zona Austral, El Carrizal El Salvador, Piarco International Airport, San Jose Ojos de Agua, El Salvador, Geography of Rosario, Climate of Peru, Yungas, Aldea San Antonio, International Rankings of Uruguay, Orinoco Belt, Sumapaz Paramo, Caatinga, Protected Areas of Peru, Waller Air Force Base, List of Falkland Islands Placenames, La Frontera, Chile, Magellanic Subpolar Forests, Extreme Points of Brazil, Peruvian Amazon, Ischigualasto, List of Islands of the Falkland Islands, Zona Central, Chile, Norte Grande, Serras de Sudeste, Laguna Blanca, Aburrá Valley, Guajira Peninsula, Atlantic Forest, Triple Frontier, Ypacaraí Lake, Time in Brazil, Quilombo, Pampa, Ecotourism and Wild Areas of Paraguay, Catatumbo Lightning, Zona Sur, List of Brazilian States by Population Density, Natural Regions of Colombia, Carlsen Air Force Base, Ñu Guasú Park, Norte Chico, Chile, List of Islands of Chile, San Juan Bautista, Paraguay, Raposa Serra Do Sol, Yaguarón, Sertão, San Carlos, Paraguay, Domaine Al Este, Argentine Northwest, Puerto Hambre, Cerro Catedral, Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago, Ventana System, El Mutún, Beni Savanna, Brokopondo Reservoir, Mesopotamia, Argentina, Cuyo, Triângulo Mineiro, Time in Argentina, List of Extreme Points of Chile, Cordillera de La Costa Montane Forests, Extreme Points of Argentina, Mameria...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19727558 ... Read more

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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, culture, and people of the South American country whose narrow land area extends half the length of the continent. ... Read more

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The geography of Chile is extremely diverse as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56° (if Chilean claims on Antarctica are included Chile would extend to the South Pole) and from the ocean on the west to Andes on the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Peru. Chile's territorial shape is among the world's most unusual. From north to south, Chile extends 4,270 kilometers, and yet it only averages 177 kilometers east to west. On a map, it looks like a long ribbon reaching from the middle of South America's west coast straight down to the southern tip of the continent, where it curves slightly eastward. Cape Horn, the southernmost point in the Americas, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans turbulently meet, is Chilean territory. Chile's northern neighbors are Peru and Bolivia, and its border with Argentina to the east, at 5,150 kilometers, is the world's third longest. ... Read more

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Chapters: Coney Island. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The geography of Chile is extremely diverse as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56° (if Chilean claims on Antarctica are included Chile would extend to the South Pole) and from the ocean on the west to Andes on the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Peru. Chile's territorial shape is among the world's most unusual. From north to south, Chile extends 4,270 km (2,653 mi), and yet it only averages 177 km (110 mi) east to west. On a map, it looks like a long ribbon reaching from the middle of South America's west coast straight down to the southern tip of the continent, where it curves slightly eastward. Cape Horn, the southernmost point in the Americas, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans turbulently meet, is Chilean territory. Chile's northern neighbors are Peru and Bolivia, and its border with Argentina to the east, at 5,150 km (3,200 mi), is the world's third longest. Geographic coordinates: The northern two-thirds of Chile lie on top of the telluric Nazca Plate, which, moving eastward about ten centimeters a year, is forcing its way under the continental plate of South America. This movement has resulted in the formation of the Peru-Chile Trench, which lies beyond a narrow band of coastal waters off the northern two-thirds of the country. The trench is about 150 km (93 mi) wide and averages about 5,000 m (16,404 ft) in depth. At its deepest point, just north of the port of Antofagasta, it plunges to 8,066 m (26,463 ft). Although the ocean's surface obscures this fact, most of Chile lies at the edge of a profound precipice. The same telluric...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=67318 ... Read more

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The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography. The time is therefore ripe for a new look at Chile’s plants and their distribution.

Focusing on three key issues – botany/systematics, geography and biogeographical analysis – this book presents a thoroughly updated synthesis both of Chilean plant geography and of the different approaches to studying it. Because of its range – from the neotropics to the temperate sub-Antarctic – Chile’s flora provides a critical insight into evolutionary patterns, particularly in relation to the distribution along the latitudinal profiles and the global geographical relationships of the country’s genera. The consequences of these relations for the evolution of the Chilean Flora are discussed.

This book will provide a valuable resource for both graduate students and researchers in botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology and plant conservation.

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"INTRODUCTION: 'SOUTHERN CHILE ', because of the extraordinary length of the republic, has a variety of meanings in geographical literature, and more often than not is a term used to designate all the area south of that experiencing the Mediterranean climate so typical a feature of the country's central nucleus. A much more accurate and interpretative sub-division of this 'bell-rope' nation is that devised by the doyen of geographers of Latin America, Preston James, whose four-fold framework of North, North Middle, South Middle and South, fits the geographical and historic pattern displayed by the regions of Chile.It is with the South as there delimited, south of 44° S., that this study deals. As such it includes but two of Chile's twenty-five provinces, but in common with thinly populated areas almost everywhere, these are two of the largest, only Antofagasta and Atacama in the desert north being comparable in size. Stretching for some 900 miles, and with an average width of 120 miles, these two southernmost provinces of Aysen and Magallanes are not only situated in latitudes comparable with those of the British Isles but coincide very closely with the total area of Great Britain, Aysen being approximately equal in size to Scotland, and Magallanes to that of England and Wales.Together they form a region distinct in many ways from the rest of Chile, outstanding being its detachment, from the viewpoint of land communications, and its consequent isolation from the nuclei of settlement in Middle Chile. While this remoteness, its structural and climatic contrasts, its pioneer development and divergent historical evolution have all imposed a certain unity vis-a-vis the rest of the republic, the tendency, both in Chile and elsewhere, has been to use this separateness as an easy method of summarizing a little-known region in the terms of its most dramatic characteristics..." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Revista Geográfica, published by Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2466 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Metodología básica para medir la Calidad de Vida en ciudades intermedias de Chile.(TT: Basic methodology for measuring quality of life in medium-size cities in Chile.)
Author: Didima Olave Farías(*)
Publication: Revista Geográfica (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Instituto Panamericano de Geografica e Historia
Page: 73

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 8905 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Globalization, grapes and gender: Women's work in traditional and agro-export production in northern Chile.
Author: Anna Bee
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 166Issue: 3Page: 255

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