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2016 In Chile ...
Events in the year 2016 in Chile. Incumbents * President: Michelle Bachelet Sport * Chile at the 2016 Summer Olympics * 2015–16 Chilean Primera División season * 2016 Americas Rugby Championship Events * 25 December: 2016 Chiloé earthquake References {{South America topic, 2016 in Years of the 21st century in Chile 2010s in Chile Chile Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Chile
The president of Chile ( es, Presidente de Chile), officially known as the President of the Republic of Chile ( es, Presidente de la República de Chile), is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Chile. The president is responsible for both the Government of Chile and state administration. Although its role and significance has changed over the history of Chile, as well as its position and relations with other actors in the national political organization, it is one of the most prominent political offices. It is also considered one of the institutions that make up the "Historic Constitution of Chile", and is essential to the country's political stability. Under the current Constitution (adopted in 1980), the president serves a four-year term, with immediate re-election being prohibited. The shorter period (previously the term was six years) allows for parliamentary and presidential elections to be synchronized. The official seat of the president of Chile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile; she is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency and the first elected female leader in South America. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and while not immediately reelectable, she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013, Bachelet was reelected with over 62% of the vote, bettering the 54% she obtained in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be reelected since 1932. Bachelet, a physician who has studied military strategy at university level, was Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and describes hersel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile At The 2016 Summer Olympics
Chile competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. The Chilean Olympic Committee ( es, Comité Olímpico de Chile, COCH), link=no) fielded a team of 42 athletes, 25 men and 17 women, to compete in sixteen sports at the Games. It was the nation's largest delegation sent to the Olympics without any association to the team-based sports for the first time. Nearly 25 percent of the Chilean team competed in the track and field, the largest by sport; there was only a single competitor in archery, equestrian, golf, judo, shooting, taekwondo, and triathlon. The Chilean roster featured five sets of family members, including beach volleyball cousins Esteban Grimalt, Esteban and Marco Grimalt, race walking twins Edward Araya, Edward and Yerko Araya, London 2012 yachtsman Benjamín Grez and his older brother Cristobal Grez, Cristobal, and two other pairs of rookies sailing each other in the men's and women's 470 class, respectively: sisters Arantza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Americas Rugby Championship
The 2016 Americas Rugby Championship was the first series of the Americas Rugby Championship (sometimes informally called the "Americas Six Nations", a reference to Europe's Six Nations Championship), a new annual western hemisphere rugby union championship. It was contested by Argentina XV (Argentina's secondary national team), Canada, United States, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile. All matches will be full international test matches with caps awarded, including for Argentina XV players and their opponents, but Argentina XV matches will not count to World Rankings for either team. Participants Table Squads Fixtures The tournament will be played in a round-robin format, with each team playing the five others once. Week One Notes: * Daniel Sancery and Felipe Sancery made their international debuts for Brazil. * Rodrigo Moya and Beltrán Vergara made their international debuts for Chile. ---- Notes: * Gradyn Bowd, Paul Ciulini, Alistair Clark, Dan Moor, Clay Panga, Lucas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Chiloé Earthquake
The 2016 Chiloé earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck south-west of Puerto Montt in southern Chile at 11:22 local time, 25 December. The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning on coasts located up to from the quake's epicentre, generating massive evacuation across the Greater Chiloé Island, after advice from the Chilean government. Although there was damage in some parts of the island, the government reported no casualties. Earthquake The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow thrust faulting in southern Chile. At the location of the earthquake, the oceanic Nazca plate converges with and subducts beneath the South America plate in an east-northeast direction, at a rate of approximately 73 mm/yr. The location, depth and shallow thrusting focal mechanism solution all indicate this earthquake likely occurred on the subduction zone interface. Tsunami A tsunami with a maximum height of was observed on Chiloé Island. See also *List of earthquakes in 2016 *List of ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
