{"id":18471,"date":"2026-10-02T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/?p=18471"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:35:53","slug":"extraordinary-facts-and-places-found-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/extraordinary-facts-and-places-found-in-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary facts and places found in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ojos del Salado<\/p><\/div>\n

Chile is full of natural wonders, fascinating history and unexpected surprises. Here are a few facts you may not know:<\/p>\n

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1. A glacier that is still growing<\/strong><\/h4>\n

While most glaciers around the world are retreating, Chile\u2019s P\u00edo XI Glacier<\/strong> is one of the few that has continued to advance. Located in Patagonia, it is the largest glacier in the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctica.
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2. Mummies older than the Egyptian pyramids<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Chinchorro people of northern Chile began artificially mummifying their dead thousands of years before the ancient Egyptians. Their mummies are the oldest known examples of artificial mummification in the world. The Chinchorro<\/strong> sites in the Arica and Parinacota Region have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021<\/strong>.
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3. The real-life Robinson Crusoe<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose story helped inspire Daniel Defoe\u2019s Robinson Crusoe, survived alone for more than four years on a remote island in Chile\u2019s Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Archipelago. One of the islands in the archipelago was later named Alejandro Selkirk<\/strong> Island.
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4. The highest active volcano on Earth<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Rising to 6,893 metres<\/strong> on the Chile\u2013Argentina border, Nevado Ojos del Salado<\/strong> is the world\u2019s highest active volcano. Its spectacular high-altitude landscape also features some of the highest permanent bodies of water on Earth.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chile is full of natural wonders, fascinating history and unexpected surprises. Here are a few facts you may not know: 1. A glacier that is still growing While most glaciers around the world are retreating, Chile\u2019s P\u00edo XI Glacier is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"[:de]Au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnliche Fakten und Orte in Chile[:en]Extraordinary facts and places found in Chile[:] - travelArt","description":"[:de] Ojos del Salado Chile steckt voller Naturwunder, faszinierender Geschichte und au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlicher Besonderheiten. Hier sind einige Fakten, die Sie vielleic"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":15,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18471"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18609,"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18471\/revisions\/18609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chile-reise.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}