Interesting Facts About Chile - Did You Know

• The Atacama Desert is said to be the driest place on the planet and is likewise said to remarkably similar to Mars

• The fringe between Argentina and Chile is the third-longest normal outskirt on the planet, measuring pretty nearly 3,200 miles.

• A truly fascinating certainty about Chile is its claim over 1,250,000 square kilometers of Antarctica. However, under the Antarctic Treaty, these cases have been suspended.

• The country saw military autocracy from 1973-1990, after President Salvador Allende was toppled by General Augusto Pinochet.

• Chile has taken an interest in the Olympics since its inaugural year and has won 13 medals since then with tennis accumulating the most, what added up to four.

• Chile has handled two Nobel laureates. Both Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and 1945 individually.

• Chile was declared an autonomous republic on 12 February 1818. In any case, they praise their National Day on eighteenth September each year. This is in light of the fact that a national junta was framed on that date in the name of Ferdinand.

• The country is likewise acknowledged to be one of the biggest exporters of salmon.

• Chile is additionally known for the least separation rates all around. This may have been conceivable because of the late legitimization of separation in the country.

• Mataveri International Airport on Easter Island is the planet's remotest hangar from an alternate airfield.

Also See:

• Top 10 Facts about Chile – Global Travel