!!!Chile: Geography
||Location|Southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Argentina and Peru
||Geographic Coordinates|30 00 S, 71 00 W[{GoogleMap location='-30.0,-71.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''756,102 sq km\\''land: ''743,812 sq km\\''water: ''12,290 sq km\\''__note:__ ''includes Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Isla Sala y Gomez\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''7,801 km\\''border countries: ''Argentina 6,691 km, Bolivia 942 km, Peru 168 km
||Coastline|6,435 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Pacific Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Nevado Ojos del Salado 6,880 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Ojos del Salado 6880 m; Cerro El Muerto 6488 m; Nevado Parinacota 6342 m; Pomerape 6265 m; Aucanquilcha 6176 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Cerro Ojos del Salado 6891 m; Cerro Tupungato 6570 m; Cerro Solo 6190 m; Cerro Aucanquilcha 6176 m; Cerro Juncal 6110 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/America/Chile/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east
||Natural Hazards|severe earthquakes; active volcanism; tsunamis volcanism: significant volcanic activity due to more than three-dozen active volcanoes along the Andes Mountains; Lascar (elev. 5,592 m), which last erupted in 2007, is the most active volcano in the northern Chilean Andes; Llaima (elev. 3,125 m) in central Chile, which last erupted in 2009, is another of the country's most active; Chaiten's 2008 eruption forced major evacuations; other notable historically active volcanoes include Cerro Hudson, Copahue, Guallatiri, Llullaillaco, Nevados de Chillan, Puyehue, San Pedro, and Villarrica
||Natural Resource|copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, molybdenum, hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''1.74%\\''permanent crops: ''0.6%\\''other: ''97.65% (2011)
||Climate|temperate; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region; cool and damp in south
||Irrigated Land|11,990 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|922 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|widespread deforestation and mining threaten natural resources; air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Santiago; Puente Alto; Antofagasta; Vina del Mar; Valparaiso\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/America/Chile/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|the longest north-south trending country in the world, extending across 38 degrees of latitude; strategic location relative to sea lanes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage); Atacama Desert - the driest desert in the world - spreads across the northern part of the country; the crater lake of Ojos del Salado is the world's highest lake (at 6,390 m)\\[Important Lakes|Geography/America/Chile/Geography/Important_Lakes]