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2. Santa Cruz, Chile - Wikipedia

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   Santa Cruz, Chile. /  34.63722°S 71.36306°W  / -34.63722; -71.36306. Santa Cruz is a Chilean city and commune, located in the Colchagua valley, in the O'Higgins Region, located on the southern shore of the Tinguiririca river, 110 miles from Santiago, Chile's capital city, and 27 miles from San Fernando. [5]

3. Tourism in Chile - Wikipedia

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   Since the mid-1990s, tourism in Chile has become one of the main sources of income for the country, especially in its most extreme areas. In 2005, this sector grew by 13.6%, generating more than US$500 million, equivalent to 1.33% of the national GDP . According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), Chile was the eighth most popular ...

4. La Cruz, Chile - Wikipedia

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   As a commune, La Cruz is a third-level administrative division of Chile, administered by a communal council ( consejo comunal ), which is headed by a directly elected alcalde. The current alcalde is Filomena Navia Hevia. The communal council has the following members: [1] Amaia Arrazota Larrondo. Edmundo Olivares Perez.

5. Raid on the Hotel Las Américas - Wikipedia

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   The Raid on the Hotel Las Américas was an operation led by the Bolivian police on April 16, 2009, in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Three foreign nationals died in the operation, whom the police identified as terrorist mercenaries, while a further two people were arrested. According to the Bolivian police, the group had been planning to ...

6. War of the Confederation - Wikipedia

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   The War of the Confederation ( Spanish: Guerra de la Confederación) was a military confrontation waged by the United Restoration Army, the alliance of the land and naval forces of Chile and the Restoration Army of Peru, formed in 1836 by Peruvian soldiers opposed to the confederation, and the Argentine Confederation against the Peru–Bolivian ...

7. Hernán Santa Cruz - Wikipedia

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   Hernán Santa Cruz (Santiago de Chile, February 8, 1906 - Santiago de Chile, February 10, 1999) was a Chilean lawyer and diplomat, Chile's first delegate to the United Nations and one of the nine original drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the most relevant documents of humanity. According to the United Nations, in ...