About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Atlantis, Troy, Tartessos, Gibellina, Aquileia, Tenochtitlan, Valdivia, Pompeii, Sodom and Gomorrah, Quneitra, Moscopole, Port Royal, Herculaneum, Osorno, Chile, Al-Q disiyyah, Stabiae, Indianola, Texas, Plymouth, Montserrat, Iram of the Pillars, Arauco, Chile, Numantia, Angol, Agdam, Villarrica, Chile, Yungay, Peru, Hatra, Liubice, Par cutin, Myndus, Torre Annunziata, Th rouanne, Sarai, Bolae, Kameiros, Con mbriga, Suessa Pometia, Kuhikugu, Singara, Saeftinghe, Oplontis, French villages destroyed in the First World War, Tiversk, Ismara, S lpils, Fregenae, Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, Santa Cruz de Coya, Chervonohorod, Politorium, Conistorgis, Ranrahirca, Vshchizh, La Imperial, Chile, Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Ora ul de Floci, Xacitarxan, Ficana, Sacatep quez, Ukek, Torchesk, Concepci n de Buena Esperanza, Njimi, Solband. Excerpt: Valdivia (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder Pedro de Valdivia and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia and Cau-Cau Rivers, approximately 15 km (9 mi) east of the coastal towns of Corral and Niebla. Since October 2007, Valdivia has been the capital of the newly created Los R os Region and is also the capital of Valdivia Province. The commune of Valdivia had 140,559 inhabitants (Valdivianos) of which 127,750 lived in the city according to the 2002 census. The main economic activities include tourism, wood pulp manufacturing, forestry, metallurgy, and beer production. The city is also the home of the Universidad Austral de Chile, founded in 1954, and Centro de Estudios Cient ficos. The city of Valdivia and Chilo Island were once the two southernmost enclaves of the Spanish Empire. From 1645 to 1740, the city depended directly on the Viceroyalty of Peru t...
