The Magallanes Region, officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is the southernmost, largest, and second least populated region of Chile. It comprises four provinces: Última Esperanza, Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego, and Antártica Chilena.
University of Magallanes (UMAG) is a university in the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas. It is a public state university and it is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. The University of Magallanes was established in 1981 during the neoliberal reforms of the Chile's military regime as the successor of Universidad Técnica del Estado's Punta Arenas section. Universidad Técnica del Estado had established the Punta Arenas section in 1961. The University of Magallanes have campuses in Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales as well as a university centre in Puerto Williams. University of Magallanes publishes the humanities and social sciences journal Magallania twice a year.
The Chilean Antarctic Territory, or Chilean Antarctica, is a part of West Antarctica and nearby islands claimed by Chile. It comprises the region south of 60°S latitude and between longitudes 53°W and 90°W, partially overlapping the Antarctic claims of Argentina and the United Kingdom. It constitutes the Antártica commune of Chile.
Punta Arenas is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. Although officially renamed as Magallanes in 1927, the name was changed back to Punta Arenas in 1938. The city is the largest south of the 46th parallel south and the most populous southernmost city in Chile and the Americas. Due to its location, it is also the coldest coastal city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Latin America. Punta Arenas is one of the world's most southerly ports and serves as an Antarctic gateway city. Punta Arenas is the world's southernmost city with more than 100,000 inhabitants and claims the title of southernmost city in the world, although this title is also claimed by Ushuaia in Argentina, which lies farther south but is slightly smaller than Punta Arenas.
Paulina Eliana Veloso Valenzuela is a Chilean lawyer and Socialist Party politician who served as the Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency of Chile from March 11, 2006 to March 27, 2007.
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Cristina Calderón Harban was a Chilean ethnographer, craftswoman, writer and cultural activist who was the last living full-blooded Yahgan person after the death of her 84-year-old sister Úrsula in 2005. By 2004, Calderón and her sister-in-law Emelinda Acuña were the only two remaining native speakers of the Yahgan language, an indigenous language in Tierra del Fuego.
Croatian Chileans are Chileans of full or partial Croatian descent. Chile has one of the largest communities of ethnic Croats outside Europe, second only to Croatian Americans. They are one of the main examples of successful assimilation of a non-Spanish-speaking European ethnic group into Chilean society. Many successful entrepreneurs, scientists and artists, as well as prominent politicians who have held some of the highest offices in the country, have been of Croatian descent – including the current president of the Republic, Gabriel Boric.
The 2011 Magallanes protests were a series of protests provoked by the rising of natural gas prices in the Chilean region of Magallanes, in January 2011. The conflict ended on January 18, when Laurence Golborne and the Citizens Assembly of Magallanes reached an agreement.
Gabriel Boric Font is a Chilean politician who has been president of Chile since 11 March 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies.
Federación Obrera de Magallanes was a trade union movement based in Punta Arenas, Chile, active between 1911 and the mid-1920s. FOM was targeted in a deadly arson attack in 1920.
Chilean expansionism refers to the foreign policy of Chile to expand its territorial control over key strategic locations and economic resources as a means to ensure its national security and assert its power in South America. Chile's significant territorial acquisitions, which occurred mostly throughout the 19th century, paved the way for its emergence as a thalassocracy and one of the three most powerful and wealthiest states in South America during the 20th century. It also formed Chile's geopolitical and national identity as a tricontinental state and one of the countries with the longest coastlines in the world.
Sara Braun was a Latvian-born Chilean businesswoman who became one of the principal employers in Patagonia. After emigrating with her family from the Russian Empire to escape persecution because of their Jewish heritage, the family toured Europe and then looked for work in Argentina and Paraguay, before moving to Magallanes, now known as Punta Arenas, in 1874.
Jorge Esteban Sharp Fajardo is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was the mayor of Valparaíso from 2016 to 2024.
Vladimiro Américo Jorge Boric Crnosija was a Chilean cleric and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Punta Arenas.
Jennifer Carolina Rojas García is a social worker and politician, member of Renovación Nacional (RN). Between July 2021 and March 2022, she served as Presidential Delegate for the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, under the presidency of Sebastián Piñera.
Lidia Magdalena Amarales Osorio is a Chilean politician, surgeon, and Master in Public Health. She is a former member of the Party for Democracy (PPD) and the Communist Party of Chile (PC). She served as Undersecretary of Public Health of her country during the first government of Michelle Bachelet between 2006 and 2008, and as National Director of the National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption of Chile (SENDA) between 2014 and 2015..
Nicolás Cataldo Astorga is a Chilean politician who has been serving as Minister of Education since 16 August 2023. Previously, he served as the Undersecretary of Regional Development and Education between 2022 and 2023.
Tatiana Valeska Rojas Leiva is a Chilean social anthropologist and politician, member of Democratic Revolution (RD). Between March 2022 and June 2023, she served as undersecretary of Housing and Urbanism under the government of Gabriel Boric.
Rocío del Pilar Faúndez García is a Chilean social worker, university professor and politician, member of Democratic Revolution (RD). She was Undersecretary of Children (Chile), between March and September 2022, in the government of Gabriel Boric.
