I've always concluded entirely based on maps, not historic facts, that it was conquered with a strong fleet and not enough infantry.
What made you reach that conclusion? I’m just curious.
Why is Chile so long?
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#192It completely ignores the influence of the indigenous languages in the "dialect" or variation of Spanish, which is actually a much better explainer than "distance from spain".
Huge mountain ranges separating people that are close in distance is a pretty classic mechanism of creating linguistic diversity / dialects in places that are physically close to each other. You see this with villages in various parts of Asia historically.
Indigenous language effecting Spanish is something that would effect everyone in South America, so even if you remove Spain from the table, Colombia, Chile, the Caribbean and Costa Rica will all stand out about how "different" they are from the rest of South America, probably from their physical barriers separating them from the rest of the continent.
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#193When I went to Chile I was about to undertake a cross-country move across the US. Everybody I spoke to in Santiago couldn't imagine a country where you can drive a massive distance like that and move from one major metropolis to another. At the time, I thought they were just reflecting on the fact that Chile is a country where 40% of all people live in one metro area, so there isn't another huge metro area to move to…
The Concepción metro area is 1 million people, Valparaíso/Viña as well. Chileans love to point out that there isn't much outside of Santiago but it's not really true.
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#194All of this is just because Chile is the best country of Chile... if you know what I mean ;-)
Somo el mejor país de Chile hmno. As a Chilean living in the US, seeing this on HN made my day - it’s not often the rest of the world (outside of South America) remembers we exist.
Chile feels like the Canada of South America in some ways. Even has a special work visa category with the USA!
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just so many different climate zones, and all in relatively close proximity. Another place like this, perhaps lesser in scale, is the Big Island of Hawaii. Its latitude means the trade winds are blowing from the same direction year-round, bringing moisture to the windward side (e.g. Hilo, HI with 120" average annual rainfall) and leaving the leeward side dry (e.g. Kailua-Kona, HI with under 20" average annual rainf…
Tenerife is a bit like that. 12k feet at the top.
And to a lesser extent, Gomera.
Just by the sea, beaches and small banana plantations. Go slightly inland and up the hills, you're in an arid region. Continue slightly further up, and you get into a lush, verdant forest. All within maybe 20 minutes' drive.
Best part? There's no airport on the island - you have to fly to Tenerife and take a ferry.
To this day, the best tomatoes I've ever had.
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#196Chilean dialect of spanish is wild. Only a chilean can understand this:
"el weon weon, weon."
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with your takeaway is that you a) won't be able to realistically get deep into the amazon rainforest and b) the tree canopy would cover all of the sky ;)
Yep. It's way easier to take a boat to the middle of the ocean - fewer roads than even in the amazon :) and the best starry sky of my life
This is a dream of mine, to soend the night far away from land that there's nothing around but water.
Did you already have sea experience, or did you just rent a boat and gave it a try?
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#199Because Chile renounced Patagonia to keep Argentina out of the war with Bolivia and Peru. Argentina is the bully around here.
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#200My key takeaway from this article is that the best place to go see the Milky Way is deep in the Amazon rainforest… where the tree cover is nearly 100% and there isn’t a single road for a hundred miles. That’s a neat collection of graphics. I’m curious how bespoke the creation process is for each graphic or if this is something everyone just does in ArcGis or similar. That last graphic about the Western US being the o…
Not really, that would probably be the north of Chile on the Atacama desert, there's a reason why the Extremely Large Telescope, Giant Magellan Telescope and Vera C. Rubin are being built there.