by Equipo Glaciar | Oct 13, 2021 | News
Former senator and minister during President Sebastián Piñera’s government, Pablo Longueira, announced the creation of a large-scale corporate touristic project over South Icefields in the Chilean Patagonia. His interest came up because Argentina carries out visits to...
by Dieter Tetzner Ivovich | Jul 13, 2021 | Science
Chile is a country characterized by its seismic activity. While the earth often surprises us with seismic tremors, the question is, do the glaciers shake? The answer is yes. Cryoseismology is an area of study that is destinated to research the origin of glacier...
by Nicolas Vivar Werner | Feb 4, 2021 | Places
The Planchón-Peteroa-Azufre volcanic complex is located about 70 kilometers from Curicó and bordered by Argentina. This complex represents one of the most striking mountain phenomena in the central Andes. In the complex’s areas, there are several mountain glaciers,...
by Nicolás Leblanc Castro | Jan 28, 2021 | Report
Alto Maipo is a large hydroelectric project owned by the American company AES Gener S.A., and it’s located in the southeast of the city of Santiago, in San José de Maipo commune, in the upper basin of the Maipo river. The purpose of the project is to produce...
by Nicolas Vivar Werner | Oct 21, 2020 | Report
Today, October 21st, 2020, is the day of the Magallanes y Antártica Chilena region, which commemorates 500 years since the discovery and crossing of the, at the time, called “Todos los Santos” canal. This discovery and expedition were led by the Portuguese explorer...
by Nicolás Leblanc Castro | Oct 1, 2020 | Notes
Pascua Lama is a mining project of the Canadian company Barrick Gold through its affiliate company named Compañía Minera Nevada S.A., located in the middle of the Andean Mountain Range, on the border between Chile and Argentina, which consists of an open-pit mining...
by Matías Carvajal Sánchez | Sep 4, 2020 | Notes
In 1916, pilot Luis Pardo Villalón rescued Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in Antarctica, a mission that went around the world. Last August 30th, 2020, marked 104 years since the heroic deed of the 2nd pilot of the Chilean Navy, Luis...
by Equipo Glaciar | Sep 3, 2020 | Notes
According to a study made by Cetaqua Water Technology Centre, the glacier contributions could be greatly reduced by the Chilean summertime – from December to March – which would expose the basin of the Metropolitana region to a complicated situation of vulnerability....
