Maipú is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation. It was founded on February 16, 1821 and it is the place of the Battle of Maipú, where Chile's independence was consolidated. Inhabitants are mostly part of a middle to upper-middle class young professionals.
Valdivieso is a Spanish-language surname derived from the Valdivielso valley in Burgos, Spain. Notable people with the surname include:
José "Pepe" Zalaquett Daher was a Chilean lawyer, renowned for his work in the defence of human rights during the de facto regime that governed Chile under General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.
Cecilia Medina Quiroga is a Chilean jurist.
Estación Central is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. Their namesake is the Estación Central railway station located in the commune.
Daher, or DAHER, is a French industrial conglomerate.
Arab Chileans are immigrants to Chile from the Arab world. Most are Christian and are the descendants of economic migrants from Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, who arrived in Chile in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Christians in the Middle East are ethnic groups, mainly Arabs, with other ethnic groups like an Aramean minority in the Levant and Iraq, Armenian refugees in the Levant and Copts in Egypt. Ethnically Arab Chileans are often called "Turks", a term derive from the fact that they arrived from the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Most arrived as members of the Eastern Orthodox church, but a minority became Roman Catholic. A minority are Muslim.
Urbina is a Basque (Spanish) surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pablo Antonio Zalaquett Said is a business administrator, Chilean former mayor of the commune of Santiago and member of the UDI, a member of the Alliance for Chile.
Plaza Yungay is a square located in Barrio Yungay, an historical neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, located at the western limits of the commune of Santiago. The plaza is the home of a monument commemorating the end of Chile's War of the Confederation (1836-1839) against the Peruvian and Bolivian confederation, and a church named for the saint that protects Santiago's residents from earthquakes. Today, it is a lively public space.
Cisternas is a common Chilean surname. Some people with this surname include:
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in Chile.
Arrate is a surname of Basque origins. Notable people with the surname include:
The National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences was created in Chile in 1992 under Law 19169. It is granted "to the humanist, scientist, or academic, who has distinguished himself for his contribution in the field of Human Sciences". The history field has its own National Award.
Valeria Francisca Zalaquett Fuentealba is a Chilean photographer and portraitist who has worked mainly in contemporary and digital art.
Letelier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andorra–Chile relations refers to the diplomatic relations between the Principality of Andorra and the Republic of Chile. Both nations are members of the Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations.
Tres Alamos was a political prison camp that operated during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. This enclosure was operational between 1974 and 1976. Being the last camp of political prisoners. Its main importance was that the prisoners were identified, unlike other detention centers and could even receive visitors. From this place many detainees were expelled from the country.
Mónica Beatriz Zalaquett Said is a Chilean business and political communicator.
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