Tag: Magallanes

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

  Magallanes Region to the rescue of farmers given the persistent drought

  

  Systems to collect and accumulate water, plus troughs, were some of the implements that were distributed among farmers in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile, to combat the hydric scarcity which affects the whole region.

• Friday, May 12th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Chile denounces Argentina drying up binational river

  

  Following complaints by Chilean ranchers, Santiago sent a note to Argentina for works that dried up the Vizcachas, a transboundary river originating in southeast Santa Cruz and reaching Magallanes. The land owners claim that the binational watercourse has suddenly dried up and denounce that it is due to works carried out on the Argentine side.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 09:51 UTC

  Agriculture emergency in Magallanes Region because of the ongoing drought

  

  Chile's Ministry of Agriculture declared on Friday an agriculture emergency in the extreme south Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica because of the hydric deficit caused by the lack of rainfall. The decision was taken following on experts projections indicating the persistence of “meteorological and hydrologic drought conditions, both reflected in the shortfall of hydric surface and subterranean availability”

• Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Magallanes reports 32 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths

  

  The Chilean Ministry of Health Office in the extreme south Magallanes Region regretted the death of two patients diagnosed with Covid-19 at the Magallanes Clinic Hospital, a 79-year lady and a man of 64.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Magallanes coronavirus contagion the highest in Chile; government orders return to restriction measures

  

  Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and its capital Punta Arenas have been forced by the Chilean Public Health ministry to return to Phase Four of the so called Step by Step Program, given the sustained surge of coronavirus contagions both in the region and at a national level.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 07:00 UTC

  Punta Arenas Antarctic International Center bidding process scheduled for next February

  

  The biding conditions and process for the construction the International Antarctic Center in Punta Arenas, should be ready before the end of the current government of president Sebastián Piñera, according to Magallanes governor Jorge Flies and Jennifer Rogers, presidential delegate for the region.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Magallanes with first elected governor wants to freeze or relocate concessions for news salmon farms

  

  Next Thursday Magallanes Region will be living a historic event, for the first time an elected governor will be taking office in Punta Arenas. Until now it was the central government, Santiago that appointed the official, but since the political and social reforms that emerged from the 2019/20 upheavals including the current assembly to draft a new constitution, things have changed in Chile particularly exposing the fragility of the so-called “Chilean model”. And in Magallanes, an issue outstands, salmon farming in maritime spaces.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Magallanes Region salmon farmers agree on an Ethics Code, first in Chile

  

  An Ethics Code to guide Chilean fish farms was announced and apparently accepted by the industry, the Salmon Breeders of Magallanes Region Association said in a release.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile, has the largest rate of Covid-19 positive cases

  

  Magallanes in the extreme south of Chile is the country's region with the largest rate of Covid-19 positive cases, according to the latest official data. On Sunday 108 new contagion cases were reported, 44 of which of random swabbing in the region mainly in the capital Punta Arenas.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Chilean scientists research possible mutation of coronavirus in Magallanes, a region closely linked to the Falklands

  

  Scientists in Chile are investigating a possible mutation of the novel coronavirus in southern Patagonia, a far-flung region near the tip of the South American continent that has seen an unusually contagious second wave of infections in recent weeks.