Page 24 - HP3A 003 The Regions of Chile

was marked by some of history’s

greatest earthquakes, including the

strongest on record in 1960, and

the devastating earthquake of 2010.

Many European settlers originally

came to this region, which is Chile’s

second most populated. Another

major city is Chillan, and close was once Chile’s top agricultural

to that city is where Chile’s most region, but is now Chile’s poorest.

famous songwriter Violeta Parra It has one of Chile’s highest

came from. populations of Mapuche people,

which are one of the country’s

The Araucania is the next region, most important and populous

with its capital city of Temuco. This indigenous people. There have been