Booklets, Misc. Information (4)” of the Betty Ford White House Papers, 1973-1977 at the Gerald R

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Ford Presidential Library. 2 5 Lake and volcano Viflarrica 6 Gray glacier, Magallanes Isla de Pascua 8 Chilean Antarctic Territory The village of Putre · Chilean Antiplano Valparaiso 3 La Portada - Antofagasta 4 Santiago in winter 4 9 Traditional Religious festivity La Tirana. northern zone 10 The Convent of San Francisco Santiago 11 Chilean cowboys in the Central zone 12 Araucanian silver ornament 13 Indian weawing 14 Precolombine ceramics (100 - 1350 AD) northern Chile Chile Chile occupies a long portion of the Western dillera to the Pacific coast throughout the entire in the development of education and economy. As seaboard of South America. Its continental te extension of the country. In an amole longitudinal regards the former, the efforts have achieved re rrito1y amounting to 741,767 square kilometres area these cross another mountainous formation sults that may be shown throughout the world with stretches between parallel 17° 30' and 56° 30' known as the Coastal Cordillera. South of Puerto pride. In the field of economic progress, the efforts south latitude, Diego Ramirez Islands and its An Monti, communication is chiefly by sea. of the various governments, within th._eir own tarctic Territory. Much of the country's area is sphere of activities or support of individuals, have occupied by the desert and mountain slopes sup Government and Administration manaped to dominate a nature as attractive and porting her Eastern boundary along the peaks of magnificent as it is stubborn and unyielding of its resources. As regards communications, electrifi the Andean Cordillera. Unity of race and outlook which characte cation, and irrigation for example, there are out rizes the country has led to a unitarian and Climate and landscape vary considerably standing works of impressive trascendence. throughout the country's lenght 01 4,270 kilome centralized form of government. This aspect is tres. The extreme North is desert with a substan now undergoing a profound change for the terri For several decades now, the State has es tial variation between day and night temperatures. tory has been divided into ample regional sectors tablished various social security and health insti The central zone has a temperate climate in accordance with appropriate geographic and tutions for the care of the more modest sectors and a moderate rainfall. The greater part of the economic characteristics. of the population. For more than a century they country's arable land, some of which is extra The existence of an Executive Authority en have also had the benefit of gratuitous compulsive ordinarily fertile, is transversed by valleys and dowed with ample attributes and respectful of an public education. non-navigable rivers. Southwards the climate be appropriate independent Judicature, is part of the comes increasingly cold and rainy. There is an political tradition of the country. An entity known abundance of lakes and forests, and the Cordillera as the "Contraloria General de la Republica" also Religion with its innumerable volcanoes lends the lanscape autonomous as reaards other State Authorities, is an exceptional attraction. Finally the territory des responsible that all judicial ruling decrees are The catholic faith predominates in Chile but integrates into a geographic irregularity of islands in line with the nation's judicial regimes. The the State and Church are separate. There is com and canals of oustanding beauty. Chilean people are profoundly legalistic. plete freedom of religion in the country. Among other confessions, the various protestant sects Further south, crossing the Drake Path is The Executive Authority has its own repre together have great number of adherents. Mor the Antarctic, vast chilean territory where opera sentatives in every basic division of the country. mons have recently established a solid expanding tional bases are manned all year round by the The organisms of local government are known as chilean armed forces. Municipalities, and their functions are of an admi organization. The majority of the population resides in the nistrative character largely connected with public central area of the country. The capital, Santiago works and progress of the sectors they cover. Natural Resources de Chile, has a population exceeding two and a Throughout the country there are many social half million, approximately one fourth of the coun groups such as "neighbours", "mothers" persons Due to its extension, shape, and relief, Chile try's overall inhabitants. Ethnically these are highly connected with educational establishments and so offers a great variety of resources. homogeneous. forth. Professional and trade unions also have their own organized groups. In the North of the country metal and non The majority are of Spanish descent mixed metal deposits predominate. Copper is more im with aboriginal blood which was scarce originally. During more than a century and a half of portant than others. The central valley is basically In the XIXth and XXth centuries, immigrants, mainly independent existence Chile has shown a political agricultural although it also contains substantial of european stock, were added to the basic com stability that is quite exceptional in South Ameri deposits of copper. The forests contain a great ponents. As a whole, the country possesses a ca; it is sufficient to say that the political consti variety of timber, mainly hardwood of excellent profound sense of national unity. The diversity of tution which has ruled its life since 1833 became quality. The structure and climate of the South its geography has not led to the psychological re one of the oldest in the world. On september 17th allows the formation of extensive natural prairies. gionalisms so frequently found in other countries. 1973, a group of eight distinguished professors During recent decades petroleum deposits have of Constitutional right were appointed to study a The country is bisected from North to South been discovered. These are now being exploited, new modern Constitution. by an excellent paved road which forms part of and submarine drilling has now been initiated. The the Panamerican Hiphway, while a network of Since the Republic was originally founded Andean Cordillera offers important hydrologic and transversal roads facilitates transit from the Cor- its governments have exercised an essential role hydroelectric resources. On the other hand, Chile's West, throuqhout Mining region neighbouring the Bio-Bio River put up an the entire length of the country, faces the Pacific indomitable resistance to the Spaniards and main tained their threatened settlement on these lands. ocean, which enables her to enjoy the ample va Chile's most important mineral wealth con riety of its ichthyologic wealth. sists of copper. The abundance of copper de Some natural cataclysms such as earthqua There are some species whose delicacy and posits places the country among the world's out kes and floods made life even more difficult i or flavour have made them famous abroad: albacore, standing producers with an annual output of some them. Under such conditions it is understandable lobsters, king crabs, oysters are particularly abun 900 thousand tons. Iron reserves are also consi that there was little room for progress in this new dant and extremely appetizing. We must also derable, and among non-metal resources nitrate possession of the Crown of Spain. mention anchovies, tunny, shrimps and plenty of and sulphur are notable. shellfish and crustaceans. The following century brought about a less Although most of the deposits mentioned are aggressive co-existence between the two races The climate of Chile, benign throughout the located in the North of Chile, there are very im but not without fierce sanguinary conflicts. In spite greater part of the country, and the beauty of the portant mining exploitations in the whole country. of everything the economic and cultural life of very varied lanscape are just so many more gifts There is coal in the provinces of Concepci6n Chile slowly and with great difficulty began to of Nature as impressive as those which have al and Arauco and Magallanes has petroleum. The establish itself. It may be said that the XVII/th cen ready been mentioned. It is difficult to over-esti production of this fuel however is only capable of tury alone brought peace and sustained progress mate the qualities of both. Apart from these, the supplying part of the nation's consumption. due to a series of very capable peninsular manda low population density offers ample possibilities taries. One of the most outstanding of these was for the realisation of an independent and peaceful don Ambrosio O'Higgins (of Irish origin). tourism that can only be found in a very few Industry parts of the world. Cities and educational establishments were The industrial development of Chile da founded including a university. tes from the last four decades and has largely Agriculture transformed the social and economic face of the Agriculture, a modest industrial production, country. It employs some 600 thousand people and commerce, all prospered considerably with The country's Northern deserts, except for and produces more than 20% of the national the arrival of active entrepreneurs and merchants some oasis, shift the main agricultural activities income.

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