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Santiago from Cerro Santa Lucia
This is a classical view of Santiago.  Looking eastward is the full front of the Andes.  Running the length of the continent, the Andes form the border between Chile and Argentina.  As a country, Chile is on average around 120 miles wide by over 2000 miles long.  Resting on Cuba, Chile would reach to Hudson Bay in Canada.  The length:width ratio is approximately 20:1.  While the view of the Andes is spectacular, the ominous layer of smog barely above the city is not.  Trapped all the way around by mountains, the over-motorized city cannot get the ventilation it needs to clear out the air, leading Chile to have once considered removing a smaller mountain to the west, towards the sea (at extreme expense and controversy).
©2000, Jeffrey L. Cooper

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