Santiago Capital of Chile
Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Santiago is located approximately in the coordinates 33° 26′ 16″ S 70° 39′ 01″ O, at an average height of 520 m.
In 2002, it had a population of 5428590 inhabitans, a figure that, according to the National Institute of Statistics, would reach the 6269629 inhabitans, What is equivalent to close to 40 % of the total population of the country. The city of Santiago houses the principal governmental (with the exception of National Congress, located in Valparaíso), financial, administrative, commercial and cultural organisms of the country.

Downtown Santiago

Panorama de la Plaza Italia

Panoramic View 360, Sector  Italia Square.

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Frontis Palacio de la Moneda

Panoramic View 360, Street Moneda with Morandé - entre la Plaza de la Constitución y el Palacio de La Moneda.

Frontis Museo de Bella Artes

Panoramic View 360, the exterior of Santiago's Museum of Fine Arts

Santiago de Chile is, in addition, the headquarters of the CEPAL and it is considered the third Latin American city with the best quality of life, after Montevideo and Buenos Aires and as a world class city of the Gamma type, at the level of Amsterdam or Boston and surpassing big cities such as Roma, Stockholm and Beijing.

Source: Wikipedia.org





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