About Santiago
Santiago the largest city of Chile, spreading across the Central Valley, marks itself as a spectacular capital with a progressive economy, mushrooming shopping malls and conspicuously increasing skyscrapers. The sophisticated transport system of Santiago includes, but is not limited to, underground metro, efficient bus services and intricate highway system mostly tunneled with city’s main river Mapocho flowing above it. Santiago is famous for its diversity and its very rich culture - cosmopolitan in nature. You would like it in all weathers be it a pleasure trip or the one purely official in nature. You can indulge yourself in outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing and hot springs within an hour’s drive out of Santiago. It may also offer discos, clubs, museums and universities of choice.
Santiago is famous for its football clubs such as Colo Colo, CF Universidad De Chile, Union Espanola, Audax Italiano, Palestino and Santiago Morning.
The majority of the population of Santiago is Catholic.
Santiago is famous for a number of universities, colleges, libraries and research institutes with Universidad de Chile being the largest of Chile and one of the older universities on American continent.