Chile , authoritatively the Republic of Chile (Spanish:República de Chile), is a South American nation possessing a long, slender portion of land between the Andes toward the east and the Pacific Ocean toward the west. It fringes Peru toward the north, Bolivia toward the upper east, Argentina toward the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chilean region incorporates the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. Chile additionally asserts around 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica, albeit all cases are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty. The bone-dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile contains extraordinary mineral riches, primarily copper. The moderately little focal zone overwhelms regarding populace and horticultural assets, and is the social and political focus from which Chile extended in the late nineteenth century when it joined its northern and southern locales. Southern Chile is wealthy in woodlands and touching grounds, and highlights a series of volcanoes and lakes. The southern coast is a maze of fjords, channels, trenches, contorting landmasses, and islands.

Santiago is the capital and biggest city of Chile just as one of the biggest urban areas in the Americas. It is the focal point of Chile's biggest and most thickly populated conurbation, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose complete populace is 7 million. The city is altogether situated in the nation's focal valley. The vast majority of the city lies between 500 m (1,640 ft) and 650 m (2,133 ft) above mean ocean level. Established in 1541 by the Spanish champion Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since pioneer times. The city has a downtown center of nineteenth century neoclassical design and winding side-lanes, dabbed by workmanship deco, neo-gothic, and different styles. Santiago's cityscape is molded by a few independent slopes and the quick streaming Mapocho River, lined by parks, for example, Parque Forestal. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most focuses in the city. These mountains add to an extensive exhaust cloud issue, especially amid winter. The city edges are encompassed by vineyards and Santiago is inside an hour of both the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Lapageria is a variety of blossoming plants with just a single known animal categories, Lapageria rosea, usually known as Chilean bellflower or copihue. Lapageria rosea is the national bloom of Chile. It develops in woods in the southern piece of Chile, being a piece of the Valdivian mild downpour timberlands verdure. Lapageria rosea is identified with Philesia magellanica (syn. P. buxifolia), another plant from the Valdivian verdure, having comparable blooms, yet shrubby as opposed to climbing. Philageria veitchii is a half and half between L. rosea and P. magellanica. It is progressively comparable in appearance to the previous. Lapageria rosea is an evergreen climbing plant coming to more than 10 m high among bushes and trees. The leaves are masterminded then again and are evergreen, rough, lanceolate and include three to seven noticeable parallel veins. The vines twine counterclockwise in the Southern side of the equator and clockwise when developed in the Northern half of the globe (likely because of the Sun). The blossoms have six thick, waxy tepals which are red, spotted with white. They are most as often as possible created in pre-fall and fall, despite the fact that they might be delivered at different occasions. The natural product is a lengthened berry with an intense skin containing various little seeds about the extent of a tomato seed, which are canvassed in a palatable meaty aril. In the wild the plant is pollinated by hummingbirds.

The south Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus), otherwise called the southern guemal, Chilean huemul or güemul, is a jeopardized types of deer local to the mountains of Argentina and Chile. One of two moderate sized deer of the Hippocamelus variety, the south Andean deer goes over the high mountainsides and cold valleys of the Andes. The south Andean deer is well-adjusted to broken, troublesome landscape with a stocky form and short legs. A dark colored to grayish-darker coat decreases to white undersides and a white stamped throat; the since quite a while ago, twisted hairs of the coat give insurance against cold and dampness.

The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is a South American flying creature in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and is the main individual from the variety Vultur. Found in the Andes mountains and adjoining Pacific shorelines of western South America, the Andean condor is the biggest flying creature on the planet by consolidated estimation of weight and wingspan. It has a most extreme wingspan of 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in). It is an expansive dark vulture with a ruff of white quills encompassing the base of the neck and, particularly in the male, vast white fixes on the wings. The head and neck are about featherless, and are a dull red shading, which may flush and in this way change shading because of the winged animal's passionate state. In the male, there is a wattle on the neck and a huge, dim red brush or caruncle on the crown of the head. In contrast to most feathered creatures of prey, the male is bigger than the female. It is one of the world's longest-living winged creatures, with a life expectancy of more than 70 years now and again.