[Curiosities] 10 CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT CHILE YOU MAY NOT KNOW.

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1. IN CHILE WE HAVE THE DRIEST DESERT ON THE PLANET.
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Far to the north of Chile, 886.2 miles from Santiago is the famous Atacama Desert, reputed to be the “driest place in the world” that covers a 600-mile stretch of the Pacific coast, west of the Andes. The desert is estimated to occupy 41,000 square miles or 49,000, if the land at the foothills of the Andes is included.

In a region 60 miles south of Antofagasta, where the desert averages 10,000 feet high, the earth has been compared to that of the planet Mars, and for its unique appearance, various scenes of the landscape of Mars have been filmed. there, one of the best known television series Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.

The region is used in a special way by NASA to test many instruments that will be used in future expeditions to Mars.

 

2. IN OUR CULTURAL STOCK, WE HAVE “THE MOST PRECISE WORD IN THE WORLD”.
She is Mamihlapinatapai and is a native of the Yaganes, an indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. It means "a look between two people, each of whom waits for the other to begin an action that both want but that neither is encouraged to initiate."

 

3. THE OLDEST MUMMIES IN THE WORLD WERE FOUND IN THE NORTH OF CHILE.
The Chinchorros mummies were discovered approximately 100 years ago in the arid Atacama Desert. According to studies, the bodies were mummified more than 7,000 years ago. Unfortunately, due to the increased humidity in northern Chile, certain bacteria invaded the remains of the ancient mummies and degraded the tissue, giving it a blackish appearance.

 

 4. THE LONGEST FOOTBALL GAME IN THE WORLD WAS PLAYED IN CHILE.
The largest commune in Santiago de Chile is La Florida. This is where the longest soccer game in the history of the foot ball took place, with a duration of 120 hours !! At that meeting a new Guinness record was set, of course: 2,357 people passed through the court and the final result was 505-504.

 

5. THE MOON WAS INSCRIBED BY A CHILEAN.
The lawyer, painter and poet Jenaro Gajardo Vera was passionate about investigating what was happening beyond planet Earth. Such was his concern that he founded the Interplanetary Telescopic Society. And one fine day, on September 25, 1954 in the Maule region, Don Jenaro declared himself the owner of the Moon before a notary public. It is said that the audacious man registered the natural satellite of the Earth because it was a requirement of membership to the Social Club of Talca to have a property.

 

6. WE HAVE THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD.
In the Magallanes region is the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile's main tourist destination. Its beautiful places were chosen the Eighth Wonder of the World in 2013, among 300 places in 50 countries.

 

7. CHILE IS THE MOST EXTENSIVE AND NARROW COUNTRY ON THE LAND.
From North to South, Chile has a distance of 4,300 kilometers. In the extreme north is the tripartite border with Bolivia and Peru, and in the extreme south, the Islote Águila, part of the Diego Ramírez Islands in the cold waters of the Drake Pass.

 

8. THE LONGEST TELEVISION SHOW IN THE WORLD IS CHILEAN
Guess which one? It is Sabado Gigante, which was broadcast for more than 5 decades without interruption. They were 53 years, 1 month and 11 days long.

 

9. THERE ARE NO POISONOUS SNAKES IN THE NATIONAL TERRITORY.
More than 3,000 species are known and none are poisonous.

 

10. ASTRONOMIC POWER.
Chile is home to some of the most important scientific astronomical observatories in the world. These are located in the north of our country, from the Coquimbo Region to the Atacama Region, generally towards the interior of the mountain range. What many do not know is that these observatories can be visited by the general public, and they make different tours of their facilities.