Paniahue (Mapudungun : proper place to take the glare) [1] is a Chilean village located north of Santa Cruz, Colchagua Province, O'Higgins Region.
In 1899, it had 1,055 inhabitants, its own post office and a free public school. [2] It currently has 2,526 inhabitants. [3]
The village was greatly damaged by the 2010 Chile earthquakes, and the Paniahue apartments became an icon of the earthquake.
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