Chile
in South America
South America

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Country Quickfacts
Currency and Currency Code:
Peso - CLP
Spoken languages:
Spanish
Local electricity:
220 V - 50 Hz (plugs: C, L)
Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 3G, 4G
ISO 2-Letter code:
CL
Internet top level domain:
.cl
Country phone prefix:
+56
Local Time (capital):
Timezone:
UTC/GMT offset: hours

Map of Chilean Unesco Heritage Sites

Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about Chile in South America. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is Rapa Nui National Park. On the list since 1995. The youngest site is Sewell Mining Town. On the list since 2006.

Name Since
Churches of Chiloé
The Churches of Chiloé represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture. They represent a tradition initiated by the Jesuit Peripatetic Mission...		 2000
Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
The colonial city of Valparaíso presents an excellent example of late 19th-century urban and architectural development in Latin America. In its natural amphitheatre-like setting, the city is characte...		 2003
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Humberstone and Santa Laura works contain over 200 former saltpeter works where workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal pampinos culture. That cul...		 2005
Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ori...		 1995
Sewell Mining Town
Situated at 2,000 m in the Andes, 60 km to the east of Rancagua, in an environment marked by extremes of climate, Sewell Mining Town was built by the Braden Copper company in 1905 to house workers at ...		 2006