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Antofagasta Region, the Glossary

The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's sixteen first-order administrative divisions.^[1]

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Regions of Chile
Weather extremes of Earth

Administrative divisions of Chile

The administrative division or territorial organization of Chile exemplifies characteristics of a unitary state.

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Altiplano

The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Antofagasta

Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.

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Antofagasta Province

Antofagasta Province (Provincia de Antofagasta) is one of three provinces in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta (II).

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Antofagasta Region

The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's sixteen first-order administrative divisions. Antofagasta Region and Antofagasta Region are regions of Chile and weather extremes of Earth.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Antofagasta Region and Atacama Desert are regions of Chile.

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Atacama Desert border dispute

The Atacama Desert border dispute was a dispute between Bolivia and Chile from 1825 to 1879 for the territories of the Atacama Coast due to the different views of both countries of the territory inherited from the Spanish Empire.

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Atacama Fault

The Atacama Fault Zone (AFZ) is an extensive system of faults cutting across the Chilean Coastal Cordillera in Northern Chile between the Andean Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean.

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Atacama Large Millimeter Array

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.

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Atacama people

The Atacama people, also called Atacameño, are an Indigenous people from the Atacama Desert and altiplano region in the north of Chile and Argentina and southern Bolivia, mainly the Antofagasta Region.

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Atacama Region

The Atacama Region (Región de Atacama) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. Antofagasta Region and Atacama Region are regions of Chile.

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Ayquina

Ayquina (also spelled as Aiquina) is a village located on the northern flank of Salado River Canyon in the Calama commune of the El Loa Province in Chile's Antofagasta Region.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Calama, Chile

Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.

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Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Caspana

Caspana is a Chilean village located 85 km northeast of the city of Calama, in the gorge carved by the river that shared its name and that is a tributary of the Salado River.

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Central Andean dry puna

The Central Andean dry puna (NT1001) is an ecoregion in the montane grasslands and shrublands biome, located in the Andean Altiplano (high plateau) in South America.

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Chango people

The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, are an Indigenous people or group of peoples who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from southern Peru to north-central Chile, including the coast of the Atacama desert.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chilean Central Valley

The Central Valley (Valle Central), Intermediate Depression, or Longitudinal Valley is the depression between the Chilean Coastal Range and the Andes Mountains.

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Chilean Coast Range

The Chilean Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa) is a mountain range that runs from north to south along the Pacific coast of South America parallel to the Andean Mountains, extending from Morro de Arica in the north to Taitao Peninsula, where it ends at the Chile Triple Junction, in the south.

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Chilean Iron Belt

The Chilean Iron Belt is a geological province rich in iron ore deposits in northern Chile.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chuquicamata

Chuquicamata (referred to as Chuqui for short) is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world.

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Climate of Chile

The climate of Chile comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale, extending across 38 degrees in latitude, making generalizations difficult.

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Coastal Cliff of northern Chile

View of the arid mountains near Iquique ending abruptly in the Pacific Ocean. The Coastal Cliff of northern Chile (Acantilado Costero) stretches over a length of more than 1000 km along the Atacama Desert.

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Communes of Chile

A commune (comuna) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Coquimbo Region

The Coquimbo Region (Región de Coquimbo) is one of Chile's 16 regions (first order administrative divisions). Antofagasta Region and Coquimbo Region are regions of Chile.

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Croats

The Croats (Hrvati) or Horvati (in a more archaic version) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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El Loa

El Loa Province (Provincia El Loa) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta (II).

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Escondida

Escondida is a copper mine at elevation in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile.

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Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia

The Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (British company name: Antofagasta (Chili) & Bolivia Railway or FCAB for short) is a private railway operating in the northern provinces of Chile.

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Fishing industry in Chile

Fishing in Chile is a major industry with a total catch of 4,442,877 tons of fish in 2006.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Guano

Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.

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Hornitos, Chile

Hornitos is a coastal town located north of Mejillones and north of Antofagasta in Chile's Antofagasta Region.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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Intendant

An intendant (intendente; intendente) was, and sometimes still is, a public official, especially in France, Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

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Iodine

Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53.

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ISO 3166-2:CL

ISO 3166-2:CL is the entry for Chile in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Antofagasta Region and ISO 3166-2:CL are regions of Chile.

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Italians

Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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La Negra Formation

La Negra Formation (Formación La Negra) is a geologic formation of Jurassic age, composed chiefly of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, located in the Coast Range of northern Chile.

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Lasana

Lasana is a small village located northeast of the city of Calama in the Calama province of Chile's northern Antofagasta Region.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Lithium

Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.

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Litoral Department

The Department of the Litoral, also known as the Atacama Department and commonly known as the Bolivian coast, was the description of the extent of the Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert included in the territory of Bolivia from its inception in 1825 until 1879, when it was lost to Chile.

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Loa River

The Loa River (Spanish: Río Loa) is a U-shaped river in Chile's northern Antofagasta Region.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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María Elena, Chile

María Elena is a Chilean town and commune in Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta Region.

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Mejillones

Mejillones is a Chilean port city and commune in Antofagasta Province in the Antofagasta Region.

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Mestizo

Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

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Mineralium Deposita

Mineralium Deposita, International Journal for Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media.

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National Renewal (Chile)

National Renewal (Renovación Nacional, RN) is a liberal conservative political party in Chile.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Norte Chico, Chile

The Norte Chico region is one of five natural regions of continental Chile, as defined by the government agency CORFO in 1950.

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Norte Grande

The Norte Grande (Big North, Far North, Great North) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.

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Ollagüe, Chile

Ollagüe is a Chilean frontier village and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Politics of Chile

Chile's government is a representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Chile is both head of state and head of government, and of a formal multi-party system.

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Porphyry copper deposit

Porphyry copper deposits are copper ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers below the deposit itself.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.

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Provinces of Chile

A province is a second-level administrative division in Chile.

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Real Audiencia of Charcas

The Real Audiencia of Charcas (Audiencia y Cancillería Real de La Plata de los Charcas) was a Spanish audiencia with its seat in what is today Bolivia.

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Regions of Chile

Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular), which are the country's first-level administrative division.

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Salar de Atacama

Salar de Atacama, located south of San Pedro de Atacama, is the largest salt flat in Chile.

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Salt pan (geology)

Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.

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San Francisco de Chiu Chiu

San Francisco de Chiu Chiu, or simply Chiu Chiu, is a village located about northeast of the city of Calama, in El Loa Province of Chile's northern Antofagasta Region.

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San Pedro de Atacama

San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region.

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Sierra Gorda, Chile

Sierra Gorda is a Chilean commune in Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region.

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Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antofagasta_Region

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Regions of Chile

Weather extremes of Earth

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