Santiago Chile's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park.
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21 Facts About Santiago Chile
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The city outskirts are surrounded by vineyards and Santiago Chile is within an hour of both the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
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Santiago is the political and financial center of Chile and is home to the regional headquarters of many multinational corporations.
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Santiago Chile Basin is part of the Intermediate Depression and is remarkably flat, interrupted only by a few "island hills;" among them are Cerro Renca, Cerro Blanco, and Cerro Santa Lucia.
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Natural vegetation of Santiago is made up of a thorny woodland of Vachellia caven and Prosopis chilensis in the west and an association of Vachellia caven and Baccharis paniculata in the east around the Andean foothills.
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Santiago Chile's rainfall is highly variable and heavily influenced by the El Nino Southern Oscillation cycle, with rainy years coinciding with El Nino events and dry years with La Nina events.
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The 1647 Santiago earthquake devastated the city, and inspired Heinrich von Kleist's novel, The Earthquake In Chile.
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In 2010 Santiago Chile was struck by the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded, reaching 8.
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Two faults in particular, San Ramon and El Arrayan, in the east and north of Santiago Chile respectively have been singled out as being particularly dangerous.
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Growth of Santiago Chile has undergone several changes over the course of its history.
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Santiago Chile is served by Eulogio Sanchez Airport, a small, privately owned general aviation airport in the commune of La Reina.
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An extensive network of streets and avenues stretching across Santiago Chile facilitate travel between the different communities that make up the metropolitan area.
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Taxicabs are common in Santiago Chile and are painted black with yellow roofs and have orange license plates.
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The road General Velasquez and sections of the Pan-American Highway in Santiago Chile were converted into the Autopista Central, while Americo Vespucio became variously the highways Vespucio Norte Express and Vespucio Sur, as well as Vespucio Oriente in the future.
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Greater Santiago Chile lacks a metropolitan government for its administration, which is distributed between authorities, complicating the operation of the city as a single entity.
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The highest authorities in Santiago are considered to be the governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, who is popularly elected to the office, now held by Claudio Orrego, and the regional presidential delegate of Santiago Metropolitan Region, an official appointed by the president of Chile, post currently occupied by Constanza Martinez.
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Close by is the Municipal Theatre of Santiago Chile, which was built in 1857 by the French architect Brunet of Edward Baines.
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Several other football clubs are based in Santiago Chile, including Union Espanola, Audax Italiano, Palestino, Santiago Chile Morning, Magallanes and Barnechea.
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Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Santiago Chile was founded in June 1888 and was ranked as the best school in Latin America in 2014.
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Santiago Chile is part of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities from 12 October 1982.
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