1. Chile Total population: 17 million HDI: 0.822
Spanish Conquistadors heard the name from the Incans in the 1500’s
First European: Ferdinand Magellan

2. Chile Today
President
Feb. 27, 2010 – 8.8 earthquake, 5th largest ever recorded and tsunami. 500 deaths, million lost homes
Aug – 33 miners trapped and rescued after 17 days
Highest degree of economic freedom in South America

3. Santiago, Chile Lake houses in southern Chile
Capital of Chile, Santiago
40% of Chile’s population
Lake houses in southern Chile

4. Ther
Andes Mountains

5. Landscape Chile stretches 2,670 miles and widest point is 217 miles
Longest north-south country in world
Controls Easter Island
Andes – longest mountain range, 4300 miles long
Highest mountain range outside Asia
Highest peak – Mt. Aconcagua – 22,000 feet
On Ring of Fire

6. Atacama Desert, Chile
600 mi. plateau, driest non-polar desert

7. Named after Simon Bolivar
Bolivia
Named after Simon Bolivar

8. Landscape
Lake Titicaca – highest navigable lake in the world, on border between Peru and Bolivia, largest lake in South America

9. La Paz, Bolivia, executive and legislative branch
On the Altiplano, second highest plateau in the world
Typical Bolivian street

10. Sucre, judicial capital

11. Ecuador Includes Galapagos Islands Colonized by Spain
Largest city is Guayaquil

13. Highest waterfall in Ecuador

14. Quito, the capital of Ecuador