Chile

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Capital – SantiagoLanguage- Castellano (Spanish)President- Michelle BacheletDeclared Independence 1818Population – 17,819,054 (2014) Currency – peso (620 = 1 US dollar)

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1.000 = $1.60

2.000 = $ 3.20

5.000 = $ 8.00

10.000 = $16.00

20.000 = $32.0001/15/15

Location

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11 de sept – 1973

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Northern Chile

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Southern Chile

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Easter Island – 2,000 miles away

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Lake region

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Chile's northern desert contains great mineral wealth, principally copper.

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5th largest exporter of wine

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Completos

Sopaipillas

Empanadas

Pan

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Kuchen Pastel de choclo

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Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1971) Nobel prize for

Literature

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Rodeo is a national sport

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La Cueca – national dance

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Chile has over 2,000 volcanoes. 55 of them are active and in some parts of the country these volcanoes cause almost weekly tremors.

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Literacy rate over 98%

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Valpo

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Valparaiso

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Viña del mar

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Coquimbo

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Pato Malo – Punk, Bad dude

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Juan Pablo

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La cena

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Me gusta la pizza

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“Air” Ortman

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Concón

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

La Serena

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Reñaca Beach

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Amigos

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Gringo

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Feliz Navidad

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Alexis Bladimir Vera Cabrera

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Carlos

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¡Feliz cumpleaños!

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Chilean Slang

¡No estoy ni ahí!I- I don't care.¿Cachai?- Do you understand?¡Córtala!- Cut it out! Quit!Fome- boring or dumb gringo/a, - (blond/e) foreigner Guatón- fatsoPituto - (to receive special treatment or privileges)

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pololo/a, -boyfriend / girlfriend

capo – cool

¡Chao pescado! - See you later, alligator

guagua – baby

pato malo - bad boy, hoodlum

pintar el mono - to goof off

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