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Chile - Facts

Apr 15, 2025
  • Important pre-arrival information: SAG (Servicio Agricola y Ganadero) require an Advance Notice of Arrival. See Formalities for all the details.
  • Chile is a 4185 km (2600) mile-long strip of land that stretches from the Andes to the southern tip of South America. This southernmost tip is the notorious Cape Horn, the island of Tierra del Fuego (which Chile shares with Argentina) and the Magellan Straits.
  • This legendary Cape is in fact a small Chilean Island south of Tierra del Fuego. It is not even the southernmost point of Chilean emerged land, with the Diego Ramirez Islands some 60NM to the SW, however these were discovered approximately three years after Dutchman Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire discovered the passage to the west on January 16th 1616,  believing at the time no further land existed further south. The legend of Cap Hoorn, named after Schouten's birth town, was then born. Despite the Diego Ramirez Islands being an archipelago with 4 main islands and a dozen islets, it's the the Cabo de Hornos archipelago and its main and southernmost island that mark the dreaded passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
  • An increasing number of yachts cruise the islands and channels in the southern part of Chile, a spectacular area with magnificent fjords and imposing glaciers.
  • The rest of Chile is rarely visited by foreign yachts, except those on their way to or from the southern fjord land. Significant parts of the coastline are mountainous or rocky with no seaward access.
  • Chile's offshore possessions in the Pacific, Easter Island, and the Juan Fernandez Islands, are dealt with separately.

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