1. REPUBLICA DE CHILE SuJin Lee Gr.7

2. BUENOS DIAS!

3. LIKE MOST OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES...

4. SPAIN conquered CHILE for 287 years since 1540

5. CHILEAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE SPAIN VS CHILE

6. SEPTEMBER 18 1818 They declared indepence on

7. APRIL 25 1844 but was recognized on

8. Bernardo O' Higgins & San Jose Martin

9. SANTIAGO and they set as their capital

10. SPANISH and very few people speak the original language Speak

11. 70% Roman of the people are Catholic

12. with minor indigenous groups like EUROPEANS MESTIZOS MAPUCHE and most of them are

13. The name came from the Mapuche Indians CHILLI- where the land ends

14. Blood of patriots Snow of the Andes Mountains Sky Unitarian republic

15. A LONG country on western South America

16. 4300km long 175km wide Chile is the longest country in the world

17. Being in the Pacific Ring of the Fire makes Chille to suffer from earthquakes

18. Chile earthquake that happened in 1960 is STRONGEST earthquake happened 9.5

19. Concepcion City was destroyed and was rebuilt for 5TIMES! BUT...

21. another earthquke happened in there on February 27, 2010 8.8

22. mountainous Chile is very Chilean Andes

23. and the driest desert of the world, Atacama desert covers its northern land,

24. they don't depend on growing crops but,

25. FISHING Anchovies and sardines

26. WINERY World's 5th largest

27. MINING Copper 1/5of the world

28. TOURISM is also popular

29. Southern fjords and

30. the beautiful glaciers

31. Easter Island belongs to Chile with so much interesting architectures and art crafts

32. People like to use AIR TAXIS to go to other cities because of its mountains

33. After the DICTATORSHIP from 1973 to 1990 led by Salvador Allende

34. Augusto Pinochet led Chile to CAPITALISM

35. and CHILE is developing rapidly

36. with the GDP of $14,700 per capita

37. and 0.878 for the HDI

38. Chile became the first South American nation to join

39. Sebastian is the current Pinera president of Chile