geografia: Geography of Chile

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The geography of Chile is extremely diverse, as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56°, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Andes in the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean. Chile's territorial shape is considered among the world's most unusual; from north to south, the country extends 4,270 km (2,653 mi), and yet it only averages 177 km (110 mi) in width. Chile reaches from the middle of South America's west coast straight down to the southern tip of the continent, where it curves slightly eastward. The Diego Ramírez Islands and Cape Horn, the southernmost p…

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Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwinii), also called the Southern Darwin's frog, is a species of frog of the family Rhinodermatidae. It was discovered by Charles Darwin during his voyage on HMS Beagle on a trip to Chile. In 1841, French zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril and his assistant Gabriel Bibron described and named Darwin's frog. The diet of R. darwinii consists mostly of herbivore invertebrates. R. darwinii is currently classified as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Darwin's frog has an unusual method of brooding, in which the male will facilitate development of its tadpoles inside its vocal sac. This male brooding may make R. darwinii un…

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Framework Agreements and Territorial Concentration in Chile. Chile requires public entities to consult a centralized framework-agreement catalog (Convenio Marco, CM) before other procedures. From open contracting records on 4.9 million award processes, we build the origin-destination matrix of award-supplier pairs across Chile's sixteen regions and compare the CM channel against the remaining procedures. Catalog purchasing concentrates far more in the Metropolitan Region (RM): in contestable goods, 71-79 percent of CM pairs go to RM-domiciled suppliers against 55-56 percent of non-CM pairs (2022-2025). Buyer-clustered bootstrap intervals exclude zero every year; the difference persists with…

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Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, [ˈisla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i]) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. Easter Island is also the only territory in Polynesia where Spanish is an official language. Experts differ on when the island's Polynesian inhabitants first reached the island. While many researcher…