nPosted on September 19, 2017
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nYesterday was Chile’s Independence Day.
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nToday is Day #2 of the national holiday, with a military parade and air displays in the capital city, Santiago, and in some other cities as well.
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According to the Guinness Book of Records, Chile has the largest swimming pool. Here are the numbers for the saltwater pool:
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n Length: 1,000 yards (about 1,000 m)
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n Area: 20 acres
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n Maximum depth: 115 feet!!!
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n Volume: 66 million gallons
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nAnother world record holder: the Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert in the world. There are parts of the desert that haven’t seen rain in – get this! – over 400 years! (The desert as a whole receives an average of 15 mm, or about 0.6 inches, of precipitation per year.)
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nChile has a lot of mountains – the Andes mountain range, which dominates South America. As a matter of fact, 80% of the country is mountainous!
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nOne of Chile’s mountains, the Ojos del Salado, is the highest active volcano in the world. And Chile has a lot of active volcanoes – about 500 of them! Yikes!
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nThe Pacific islands that belong to Chile are volcanic. They formed from magma bubbling up from three different hotspots. Hotspots tend to create chains of islands, but in the case of some of the hotspots off the coast of Chile, underwater ridges were formed with only an occasional island rising high enough from the seafloor to reach the surface and become an island.
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nfamous for sculptures of giant heads / figures!!
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nChile stretches from the tropics all the way to islands that are quite close to Antarctica!
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nAlso on this date:
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nSt. Kitts and Nevis Independence Day
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nChocolatier George Cadbury’s birthday
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nFeast Day of St. Januarius in Naples
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nPlan ahead:
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Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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