The earth and its inhabitants .. . tingValparaiso with the capital by Quillota and the Aconcagua valley. The muchshorter but more difficult route over the mountains runs by Cam Bknica( Whitchouse ), an old wayside inn which has developed into a rural third road, soon to be replaced by a railway, follows the south coast by SanAntonio and the Bio Maipo valley round to Saniiago. This place was founded as capital of the provincial government over 350years ago. A white marble statue of the Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, crown-ing the Santa Lucia eminence which dominates the city, bears an i
The earth and its inhabitants .. . tingValparaiso with the capital by Quillota and the Aconcagua valley. The muchshorter but more difficult route over the mountains runs by Cam Bknica( Whitchouse ), an old wayside inn which has developed into a rural third road, soon to be replaced by a railway, follows the south coast by SanAntonio and the Bio Maipo valley round to Saniiago. This place was founded as capital of the provincial government over 350years ago. A white marble statue of the Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, crown-ing the Santa Lucia eminence which dominates the city, bears an inscriptionto the effect that the captain, first Governor of Chili, settled his troop of lOOmen in this place, where he founded the city of Santiago in the year in Estremadura, ho gave the colony the name of his native town, Santiagodel Nuovo Extreme, a now forgotten designation replaced by that of Santiagosimply, or more specially Santiago of Chili. On the Pacific seaboard the Chilian capital has no rival in the southern. VALPARAISO AND SANTIAGO
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