How was Chile before?
- Chile was originally under the control of the Incas in the north and the nomadic Araucanos in the south. In 1541, a Spaniard, Pedro de Valdivia, founded Santiago.
- Chile won its independence from Spain in 1818 under Bernardo O'Higgins and an Argentinian, José de San Martin.
What is Chilean background?
The National Holiday
- The national day, 18 September, commemorates the country's declaration of independence from Spain, in 1810.
- This is a day of celebration and national unity in which Chileans enjoy traditional food and folklore-type music and honor the martyrs of independence.
- During that day Chileans visit fondas (traditional palm-roofed shelters) where they eat empanadas (meat pastries), drink Chilean red wine, and dance the cueca, the country's national dance.
- Chilean culture is located within the confines of the Republic of Chile, although today some 800,000 Chileans are living abroad
- Most of them left the country since the mid-1970s as a result of the political and economic hardships of the military regime that ruled from 1973 to 1990.
Chileans
- The native citizens and long-term immigrants of Chile.
- Mainly of mixed Spanish and Amerindian descent, with traces of 19th- and 20th-century Europeans-origin immigrants.
Chile's National Holiday
(Fiestas Patrias)
Where is Chile located?
Chile is a large and narrow strip situated in southwest South America, bounded on the north by Peru, on the east by Bolivia and Argentina, and on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
The most important symbol
The Relation between U.S and Chile
The flag also has a blue square at the hoist-side end of the white band with a white five-pointed star in the center. The blue represents Chile's clear blue sky while the white star was the Araucanian Indians coat of arms used in their battlefield banners.
- This can be traced to the nineteenth century, have improved in the period 1988 to the present to be better than any other time in history.
- In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the United States government applauded the rebirth of democratic practices in Chile, despite having facilitated the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and aided the subsequent military regime, the build-up to which included destabilizing the country's economy and politics.
Two horizontal bands of white (above) and red (below), representing, respectively, the Andean snow and the Indians' blood fallen in their heroic struggle against the Spanish invaders.
HISTORY OF CHILE