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South America
"Chile"
Geography of Chile
Chile is a country situated in southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, between Argentina and Peru. Chile's territorial shape is certainly among the world's most unusual. From north to south, Chile extends 4,270 kilometers, and yet it only averages 177 kilometers east to west. On a map, Chile looks like a long ribbon reaching from the middle of South America's west coast straight down to the southern tip of the continent, where it curves slightly eastward. Cape Horn, the southernmost point in the Americas, where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans turbulently meet, is Chilean territory. Chile's northern neighbors are Peru and Bolivia, and its border with Argentina to the east, at 5,150 kilometers, is one of the world's longest.
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto.
Translated into dozens of languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Critic and biographer Alistar Reid has stated that Neruda is the most widely read poet since William Shakespeare.
The greatest poet of the 20th century in any language". In 1971, Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
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El fuero para el gran ladrón, la cárcel para el que roba un pan.
Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.
Algún día en cualquier parte, en cualquier lugar indefectiblemente te encontrarás a ti mismo, y ésa, sólo ésa, puede ser la más feliz o la más amarga de tus horas.
Someday, somewhere— anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
En un beso, sabrás todo lo que he callado.
In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
Love is so short and forgetting so long.
Debajo de tu piel vive la luna.
Underneath your skin lives the moon.
The moon lives underneath your skin.
Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.
Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
From encyclopedia Wikipedia
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