Artilleria hill lift in Valparaiso, Chile

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Valparaíso is city and major seaport in Chile. The city has lot of hills and in the past to make it easier to get to the top, some lifts were placed in different areas to carry people up.

This is one of those and it's called Asensor (lift in English) Artilleria. The lift was inaugurated in 1893 and still transports visitors up and down the hill of the same name.

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A 1995 Christmas stamp and the stamp on the right is a special one. At first glance I thought it was a rocket or something. But in fact it is the lift that was used a few years ago to rescue 33 miners in the San Jose mine.  Thx Ruben!

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Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago de Chile

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Santiago de Chile  is the capital of Chile. Founded in 1541, Santiago has been the capital city since colonial times. Palacio de La Moneda is the seat of the President. The production of coins in Chile took place at La Moneda (meaning coin or money) from 1814 to 1929.

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In 2013 Chile issued two stamps to celebrate 70 years of public health school. 

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Easter Island | Isla de Pascua

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Easter Island covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located some 2,300 miles from Chile's west coast and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world.

Known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Paaseiland, or Easter Island, by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen in honor of the day of their arrival in 1722. Easter Island is world-famous for the 887 large stone statues, or moai.

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Desierto de Atacama | The Blooming Atacama Desert from Chile

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Nov 8, 2011  “VALLENAR, Chile — The world's driest desert is covered in flowers after the wettest winter in decades. Some 200 species of flowers are bursting from the sand after five times the annual rainfall in just one month “

The Atacama Desert is a plateau in South America, covering a 600-mile (1,000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is one of the driest deserts in the world.

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200 Bicentennial group: Free and United.

The Bicentennial Group is a multilateral body created to promote and organize the joint commemoration of the independence process developed in the Americas 200 years ago.

Chile celebrates 200 years since start of independence drive.

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Wow, stunning PC from Chile

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