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Santiago

Santiago is the capital and economic center of . With its many museums, events, theaters, restaurants, bars and other entertainment and cultural opportunities, it is also the cultural center of the country.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport and Providencia.

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is the primary method of entry into , located in Chile's capital and largest city of Santiago. As of 2020, it was the third busiest airport in .

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is in Santiago. It's one of the commercial and gastronomical hotspots of the city, in particular along Avenida . Here you can find culturally interesting barrios like Bellavista and Italia, and in the east, towards Sanhattan, some of the city's skyscrapers.

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The Historic Center is the traditional financial downtown district in Santiago. It comprises the historical center, including Cerro Santa Lucia, historic and public buildings.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Sanhattan and East and West and South.

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Eastern Santiago is in this article defined as the municipalities of Ñuñoa, Macul, La Florida, Penalolen, La Reina, Las Condes, Vitacura and Lo Barnechea.

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Western and Southern Santiago comprises a variety of districts of the downtown of Santiago. If you travel to the city by plane or train, here is where you will end up.

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The northern part of Santiago starts from Bellavista and ranges out to the city borders in the north comprising the municipalities of Recoleta, Independencia, Renca, Quilicura and Huecuraba.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Precolombian Art.

Museum
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The , located in Santiago, , is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader art. Established in 1880, the organization is managed by the Artistic Union.

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The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from and .

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The is a located at 227 Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins, in Santiago de Chile. The complex was originally built to serve as the headquarters for the third UNCTAD conference, which was held in Santiago in 1972, and consisted of a convention centre and an adjoining 22-story building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central Chile and Estación Central.

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is one of the most important regions of . It is where you will find Santiago, a number of charming small towns in the Andean highlands, the largest ski resort in Chile, and important seaside ports like Valparaiso.

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is a commune of located in , . It is named after the railway station, which is located within the commune.

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is a commune located in the northeastern sector of Santiago, the capital of . Bordered by to the north and west, to the south, and and to the east, it has an area of 16.9 km².

Santiago

Latitude
-33.4378° or 33° 26′ 16″ south
Longitude
-70.6505° or 70° 39′ 2″ west
Population
6,140,000
Elevation
556 metres (1,824 feet)
Abbreviation
“Stgo.”
IATA airport code
SCL
United Nations Location Code
CL SCL
Open location code
47RFH86X+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 50016356
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3871336
Wiki­data ID
Q2887
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Santiago” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Сантиаго де Чили”
  • Abkhazian: “Сантиаго”
  • Achinese: “Santiagô de Chili”
  • Adyghe: “Сантьяго”
  • Afrikaans: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Afrikaans: “Santiago”
  • Albanian: “Santiago”
  • Amharic: “ሳንቲያጎ”
  • Arabic: “سانتياغو”
  • Aragonese: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Armenian: “Սանտյագո”
  • Arpitan: “Santiago du Ch·ili”
  • Arpitan: “Santiago”
  • Asturian: “Santiago”
  • Asturian: “Santiagu”
  • Avaric: “Сантьяго”
  • Aymara: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santyaqo”
  • Balinese: “Santiago”
  • Bambara: “Santiago”
  • Bashkir: “Сантьяго”
  • Basque: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Basque: “Santiago”
  • Basque: “Txileko Santiago”
  • Bavarian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Belarusian: “Сант’яга-дэ-Чылі”
  • Belarusian: “Сант’яга”
  • Bengali: “সান্টিয়াগো”
  • Bengali: “সান্তিয়াগো”
  • Bhojpuri: “सेंटिआगो”
  • Bislama: “Santiago”
  • Bosnian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Breton: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Buginese: “Santiago”
  • Bulgarian: “Сантяго де Чиле”
  • Bulgarian: “Сантяго де Чили”
  • Burmese: “ဆန်တီယာဂိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Santiago de Xile”
  • Catalan: “Santiago”
  • Cebuano: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Cebuano: “Santiago”
  • Central Bikol: “Santiago, Tsile”
  • Central Bikol: “Santiago”
  • Central Kurdish: “سانتیاگۆ”
  • Chamorro: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Chamorro: “Santiago”
  • Chavacano: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Chechen: “Сантьяго”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᏂᏘᎠᎪ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᏂᏘᏯᎪ ᏭᏂᎥ”
  • Cheyenne: “Santiago”
  • Chinese: “Santiago”
  • Chinese: “圣地亚哥”
  • Chinese: “聖地亞哥/圣地亚哥”
  • Chinese: “聖地亞哥”
  • Chinese: “聖地牙哥”
  • Chuvash: “Сантьяго”
  • Cornish: “Santiago”
  • Corsican: “Santiago di u Cile”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Santyago”
  • Croatian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Croatian: “Santiago”
  • Czech: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Danish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Santiago”
  • Dinka: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Dutch: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Dutch: “Santiago”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сантьяго”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتياجو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتياغو”
  • Erzya: “Сантьяго ош”
  • Esperanto: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Esperanto: “Santiago de Ĉilio”
  • Estonian: “Santiago”
  • Ewe: “Santiago”
  • Extremaduran: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Faroese: “Santiago”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Santiago”
  • Fijian: “Santiago”
  • Finnish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Finnish: “Santiago”
  • French: “Saint-Jacques du Chili”
  • French: “Santiago du Chili”
  • French: “Santiago”
  • Friulian: “Santiago dal Cile”
  • Fulah: “Santiago”
  • Gagauz: “Santiago”
  • Galician: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Gan Chinese: “聖地牙哥”
  • Ganda: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Ganda: “Santiago”
  • Georgian: “სანტიაგო დე ჩილე”
  • Georgian: “სანტიაგო”
  • German: “Santiago de Chile”
  • German: “Santiago”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Santiago”
  • Gilaki: “سانتياگؤ”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌰𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌰𐌲𐍉”
  • Greek: “Σαντιάγκο”
  • Greek: “Σαντιάγο”
  • Guarani: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Gujarati: “સેંટિયાગો”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટિયાગો”
  • Haitian: “Santyago”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Santiago”
  • Hausa: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Hawaiian: “Sankiako-Kile”
  • Hawaiian: “Sankiako”
  • Hebrew: “סנטיאגו דה צ’ילה”
  • Hebrew: “סנטיאגו”
  • Hindi: “सेण्टियागो”
  • Hindi: “सैंटियागो”
  • Hungarian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Hungarian: “Santiago”
  • Icelandic: “Santíagó”
  • Ido: “Santiago”
  • Iloko: “Santiago”
  • Indonesian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Indonesian: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Interlingua: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Interlingue: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Irish: “Saintiagó”
  • Irish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Irish: “Santiago na Sile”
  • Irish: “Santiago”
  • Italian: “Santiago del Cile”
  • Italian: “Santiago”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Santyaago, Chili”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Santyaago”
  • Japanese: “サンチャゴ”
  • Japanese: “サンティアゴ”
  • Javanese: “Santiago, Chili”
  • Javanese: “Santiago”
  • Kabardian: “Сантиаго”
  • Kabyle: “Santiago”
  • Kalaallisut: “Santiago”
  • Kannada: “‍ಸಾಂಟಿಯಾಗೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಂಟಿಯಾಗೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Santiago”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Santyago”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сантьяго де Чили”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сантьяго”
  • Kashmiri: “سینٹِیاگو”
  • Kazakh: “Сантьяго қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сантьяго”
  • Khmer: “សាន់ត្យាហ្គោ”
  • Khmer: “សាន់ទីអាហ្គោ”
  • Kikuyu: “Santiago”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Kirghiz: “Сантьяго”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Сантьяго”
  • Komi: “Сантьяго”
  • Kongo: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Korean: “산티아고”
  • Kotava: “Santiago”
  • Kurdish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Ladino: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Lao: “ຊັນ​ຕິ​ອາ​ໂກ”
  • Latgalian: “Santjago”
  • Latin: “Sanctiacobi”
  • Latin: “Urbs Sancti Iacobi”
  • Latvian: “Santjago de Čīle”
  • Latvian: “Santjago”
  • Ligurian: “Santiago do Cile”
  • Limburgan: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Lingala: “Santiago”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Santiago, Txile”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Santiago”
  • Literary Chinese: “聖地亞哥”
  • Lithuanian: “Čilės Santjagas”
  • Lithuanian: “Santjagas”
  • Livvi: “Santjago”
  • Lojban: “santiago”
  • Lombard: “Santiago del Cile”
  • Low German: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Low German: “Santiago”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Santiago”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Macedonian: “Сантјаго”
  • Maithili: “सटियागो”
  • Malagasy: “Santiago”
  • Malay: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Malay: “Santiago”
  • Malayalam: “സാന്റിയാഗൊ”
  • Maltese: “Santiago”
  • Manx: “Santiago”
  • Maori: “Santiago”
  • Marathi: “सान्तियागो”
  • Mazanderani: “سانتیاگو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Santiago”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santiago”
  • Minangkabau: “Santiago”
  • Mingrelian: “სანტიაგო”
  • Mirandese: “Santiago”
  • Moksha: “Сантьяго”
  • Mongolian: “Сантъяго”
  • Mongolian: “Сантьяго”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سانتياڭو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سانتياݣو”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊ߲ߕߌߦߊߜ߭ߏ߫”
  • Narom: “Santiago du Chili”
  • Nauru: “Santiago”
  • Neapolitan: “Santiago ‘e Cile”
  • Neapolitan: “Santiago ’e Cile”
  • Nepali: “सान्टियागो”
  • Nepali: “सान्तियागो”
  • Newari: “सान्टियागो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Northern Luri: “سانتیاگو”
  • Northern Sami: “Santiago”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santiago”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santiago”
  • Norwegian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Norwegian: “Santiago”
  • Novial: “Santiago”
  • Nyanja: “Santiago”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santiago de Chile”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santiago”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܢܛܝܐܓܘ ܕܐ ܬܫܝܠܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Santiago”
  • Oriya: “ସାଣ୍ଟିଆଗୋ”
  • Oromo: “Santiago”
  • Ossetian: “Сантьяго”
  • Pampanga: “Santiago”
  • Pangasinan: “Santiago”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਤਿਆਗੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਤੀਆਗੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Santiago di Chile”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Persian: “سانتیاگو”
  • Picard: “Santiago”
  • Piemontese: “Santiago dël Cile”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Santi-ago”
  • Polish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Polish: “Santiago”
  • Pontic: “Σαντιάγκο”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Santiago”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago do Chile”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago”
  • Pushto: “سانتیاګو”
  • Quechua: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Quechua: “Santiago”
  • Quechua: “Tupawi”
  • Romanian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Romanian: “Santiago”
  • Romansh: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Rundi: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сантьяго”
  • Russian: “Сантьяго”
  • Samogitian: “Santjags”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱤᱭᱟᱜᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Santiago”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Scots: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Scots: “Santiago”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santiago”
  • Serbian: “Сантијаго де Чиле”
  • Serbian: “Сантјаго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Shona: “Santiago”
  • Sicilian: “Santiagu dû Cili”
  • Silesian: “Santiago”
  • Sindhi: “سانٽياگو”
  • Sinhala: “සන්තියාගෝ”
  • Slovak: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Slovak: “Santiago”
  • Slovenian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Slovenian: “Santiago”
  • Somali: “Santiyaago”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانتیاگو”
  • Southern Sotho: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Spanish: “Capital de Chile”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Santiago de Chile”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Santiago”
  • Spanish: “Gran Santiago”
  • Spanish: “La Capital de Chile”
  • Spanish: “La Capital”
  • Spanish: “Metrópolis de Santiago”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de la Nueva Extremadura”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de Nueva Extremadura”
  • Spanish: “Santiago del Nuevo Extremo”
  • Spanish: “Santiago, Región Metropolitana”
  • Spanish: “Santiago”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Santiago”
  • Sundanese: “Santiago, Cilé”
  • Sundanese: “Santiago”
  • Swahili: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Swedish: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Swedish: “Santiago”
  • Swiss German: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Tagalog: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Tagalog: “Santiago, Tsile”
  • Tahitian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Tajik: “Сантиаго”
  • Tajik: “Сантяго”
  • Talysh: “Santiago”
  • Talysh: “Santyaqo”
  • Tamil: “சான் டியேகோ”
  • Tamil: “ஸன்டியாகோ”
  • Tatar: “Сантьяго”
  • Telugu: “శాంటియాగో”
  • Telugu: “సాంటియాగో”
  • Tetum: “Santiagu”
  • Thai: “ซันติอาโก”
  • Thai: “ซานเตียโก”
  • Tibetan: “སཱན་ཏི་ཡ་གོ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Santiago”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Turkish: “Santiago, Şili”
  • Turkish: “Santiago”
  • Turkmen: “Santiýago”
  • Tuvinian: “Сантияго”
  • Twi: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Udmurt: “Сантияго”
  • Udmurt: “Сантьяго”
  • Uighur: “Santiyago”
  • Uighur: “سانتىياگو”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантьяго”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Urdu: “سینٹیاگو، چلی”
  • Urdu: “سینٹیاگو”
  • Uzbek: “Santiyago”
  • Uzbek: “Santyago”
  • Venetian: “Santiago del Cile”
  • Venetian: “Santiago del Ciłe”
  • Veps: “Santjago”
  • Vietnamese: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Vietnamese: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Vietnamese: “Santiago”
  • Vlaams: “Santiago”
  • Vlax Romani: “Santiago, Chile”
  • Vlax Romani: “Santiago”
  • Volapük: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Võro: “Santiago”
  • Walloon: “Santiago do Tchili”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santiago de Chile”
  • Welsh: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Western Armenian: “Սանթիակօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Western Mari: “Сантьяго”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانتیاگو”
  • Wolof: “Santiag”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣地亚哥”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣地牙哥”
  • Xhosa: “Santiago”
  • Yakut: “Сантьяго”
  • Yiddish: “סאנטיאגא”
  • Yoruba: “Santiago”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖地亞哥”
  • Zeeuws: “Santiago”
  • Zhuang: “Santiago de Chile”
  • Zhuang: “Swngdiyagoh”
  • Zulu: “ISantiago”
  • “Santiâg”
  • “Santiago”
  • “Santiago de Chile”
  • “Santiago, Chili”
  • “Santjags”
  • “सेंटियागो”

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