Santiago
Santiago names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Santiago san-te-a'go, the capital of Chile
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
san-te-a'go, the capital of Chile. To distinguish it from Santiago, a mining and cathedral city of Cuba, it is called frequently Santiago de Chile. It occupies an inland position, in a fertile plain at the foot of the Andes, about 2,000 feet above the sea. Valparaiso, ninety miles distant, is the seaport. The city was founded in 1541. The climate is delightful. The region is fertile. Frost occurs occasionally. Snow is unknown. The region is celebrated for grapes, figs, melons, and other fruit. The scenery, especially in the direction of the Andes, is magnificent beyond description. The city has suffered severely at times from earthquakes, yet it possesses many handsome public buildings. A central square is adorned with a fine fountain. On the west side stands the cathedral. Among the public institutions clustered at Santiago are a university, a normal school , a cathedral, a military school, a cathedral, a military school, an art school, a music school, a national library, and a mint. In 1863 a Jesuit church was destroyed by fire during services. Two thousand of the congregation, chiefly woman, perished in the flames. A railroad connects the city with its port. The exports are chiefly gold, silver, lead, and fruit. The population, which is increasing, was in 1909 about 380,000. The dominant social element is Spanish.
Santiago or SANTIAGO DE CHILE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or SANTIAGO DE CHILE, the capital of Chile and of the province of Santiago, situated near the River Maipo in the central valley between the Andes and the coast range, 69 miles S. E. of Valparaiso. The site is picturesque, with a lofty inclosure of mountains filling the horizon. In the east the white summit of Aconcagua with some lesser heights of the Andes may be seen. The city itself is undulating and its central part is the red porphyry hillock of Santa Lucia, the stronghold of the first settlers besieged by the Arauconion Indians. It has magnificent streets and buildings, with highly developed street railways. The great apartment houses and private dwellings are extremely artistic and luxurious and its boulevards, among them the Alameda, are among the finest in America. The Hall of Congress, Exposition Palace, opera house, cathedral, University building, National library, National museum are all magnificent nt buildings. Pop. (1918) 415,641.
Santiago a province of Chile
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a province of Chile, inclosed by the Pacific on the W. and by Argentina in the E., with the provinces of O'Higgins and Colchagua on the S., and those of Aconcagua and Valparaiso on the N. It is very mountainous, but agriculture is highly developed in the valleys aided by artificial irrigation. There is some mining and salt is obtained from the coastal lagoons. The capital is Santiago. . Pop (1919) 640,087.
Santiago or SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, a town of Santo Domingo; on the Yaqui river; is one of the most important towns of the republic, having large commercial interests and an extensive tobacco trade. Pop. (1917) 14,744.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's counted 415,641 people in Santiago in 1918, it was a compact valley capital; Greater Santiago now holds roughly seven million, about a third of Chile's population, and its skyline includes the Gran Torre Santiago, the tallest building in South America. The political calm implied by these entries broke on 11 September 1973, when the air force bombed the La Moneda palace in the coup that installed Augusto Pinochet until 1990; the Andean setting so admired above now traps some of the worst winter smog in the Americas. Chile's provinces were reorganised in 1974, so Santiago Province became the core of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, and Aiton's confident "Snow is unknown" has been contradicted by heavy falls, notably in 2007 and 2017. Across the Andes and the Caribbean, Santiago de los Caballeros, given 14,744 people in 1917, is now the Dominican Republic's second city with several hundred thousand inhabitants.
Written for this edition, 2026.