CHILE
UBICATION
Chile is usually described consists of three zonas.La first, known as continental Chile comprises a long, narrow strip of land on the West Coast of the Southern Cone extending over 4270 km, mostly from the south-eastern shore Pacific Ocean to the Andes, between latitudes 17 ° 29'57 "S and 56 ° 32 'S. It reaches a maximum width of 445 km at 52 ° 21' S, at the height of the Strait of Magellan and a minimum width of 90 km at 31 ° 37 'S, between Punta Amolanas and Pass Piedra.Limita house north with Peru, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, totaling 6339 km land border and at Drake Passage south. the second, called insular Chile, corresponds to a set of volcanic islands in the South Pacific: the archipelago of Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas islands, belonging to South America, Salas y Gómez island and the island Easter, geographically located in Polynesia. the third, called Chilean Antarctic Territory is an area of Antarctica or Antarctic 1250 257.6 km ² between the meridians 53 ° W and 90 ° W on which Chile claims sovereignty, extending its southern boundary to the South Pole.
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