Santiago (chl)

Santiago

Santiago ranks 68th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Turin, Dallas, and Liverpool. The most famous people from Santiago are Salvador Allende, Michelle Bachelet, and Manuel Pellegrini. The most famous people who died in Santiago are Pablo Neruda, Augusto Pinochet, and Salvador Allende. Santiago has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Santiago is located in Chile.

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. Most of the city is situated between 500–650 m (1,640–2,133 ft) above sea level. Located in the Chilean Central Valley within the Santiago Basin, between the Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west, it anchors the Santiago Metropolitan Region and its conurbation of Greater Santiago, which comprises more than forty communes and concentrates over a third of the national population and around 45% of Chile’s GDP. Most of the city lies between 500 and 650 m above sea level, with recent urban growth extending into the Andean foothills. Read more on Wikipedia