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Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about 1,100 kilometres (700 mi) north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669.
Hornitos is a coastal town located 25 km (16 mi) north of Mejillones and 90 km (56 mi) north of Antofagasta in Chile's Antofagasta Region. Hornitos is part of the Mejillones commune, but its residents are mainly Antofagasta inhabitants. Nearly 300 houses comprise the town, but almost none of them are inhabited during the winter.
The University of Antofagasta is a public research university located in Antofagasta, Chile. It is a derivative university part of the Chilean Traditional Universities.
Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P., commonly referred to as Cobreloa, is a Chilean football professional club based in Calama, Región de Antofagasta, Chile. That competes in the Primera B. The club's home ground is the Estadio Zorros del Desierto.
Estadio Regional de Antofagasta, officially Estadio Regional Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñan de Antofagasta, is a sport facilities complex located in Antofagasta, Chile. The municipality of Antofagasta is the owner of the building and its used to host sports events such as cultural events and entertainment events. The complex is composed of the Main Stadium who is use made for most important events. The secondary fields, 1, 2, 3 and 4, are used to training sessions. The Field 5 is used to secondary events, with football pitch dimensions and counts with a Baseball field where are made the regional tournaments of this sport.
Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta, that is a current member of the top tier Campeonato Nacional. The club's home stadium is the Estadio Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñán, with a capacity for 21,178 spectators.
The Mano del Desierto is a large-scale sculpture of a hand located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, about 60 km to the south and east of the city of Antofagasta, on the Panamerican Highway. The nearest point of reference is the "Ciudad Empresarial La Negra". It lies between the 1309 and 1310 km marker points on the highway.
Hipódromo Chile is a thoroughbred horse race track in the municipality of Independencia, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. It is one of two race tracks in Greater Santiago.
Valparaiso Sporting, commonly known as the Sporting, is a thoroughbred flat horse race track in Viña del Mar, Valparaíso Region, Chile.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antofagasta is a Latin rite Metropolitan archdiocese in northern Chile's Antofagasta Province.
Antofagasta is a word of Quechua or Aymara origin meaning "town of the great saltpeter bed." It may refer to:
The Puna de Atacama or Atacama Plateau is an arid high plateau, in the Andes of northern Chile (15%) and Argentina (85%). Geomorphologist Walther Penck based his Grossfalt landform association on Puna de Atacama.
Fernando Javier Hurtado Pérez is a Chilean footballer that currently plays for Primera División de Chile club Deportes Antofagasta as a goalkeeper.
Alto Loa National Reserve is a Protected Area located in the province of El Loa, Antofagasta region, Chile. Announced in 2002 and created in 2005, it is Chile's largest natural reserve.
La Chimba National Reserve is a national reserve of Chile.
Huanillos is a small seaside village in Chile and a big source of huano (guano) in the 19th century.
The 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May. It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface wave magnitude scale. Other estimates of its magnitude have been as high as 8.9 and 9.0 . It had a maximum intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale and triggered a devastating tsunami. A total of 2,385 people died, mainly in Fiji.
Erick Antonio Pulgar Farfán is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Fiorentina and the Chile national team. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a defender.
Mejillones Peninsula protrudes from the coast of northern Chile north of Antofagasta and south of the port of Mejillones.
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