Tag: Punta Arenas

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:48 UTC

  Chilean Patagonia districts in ‘agriculture emergency’ because of snow storms

  

  Four districts in the Chilean extreme south region of Magallanes were declared in “agricultural emergency” given the harmful effects of snow storms in the area.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Punta Arenas supply route cut by snow storms; some food shortages feared

  

  Many trucks loaded with perishables and other food products heading for Punta Arenas extreme south of Chile are stranded in border crossings with Argentina blocked by the snow that has accumulated during the last storms.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 15:05 UTC

  Punta Arenas fans charter DAP plane to support Chile in match against Uruguay

  

  Early Friday morning a DAP aircraft with over fifty passengers left Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, on a chartered flight for Santiago and then Mendoza, Argentina to be present at this evening’s Chile-Uruguay match for the Copa America.

• Saturday, June 4th 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Punta Arenas included in Chile’s 285 million USD program to improve air travel

  

  In response to increased air traffic this past decade, the Ministry of Public Works has formed a plan to improve and expand the airports of Chile including Punta Arenas.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 20:46 UTC

  Falklands will receive another group of Chilean exchange students next September

  

  Another group of Chilean students from Punta Arenas will be travelling to the Falkland Islands next September in the framework of the exchange program agreed between city officials and Falklands’ authorities, according to a report in La Prensa Austral.

• Friday, April 22nd 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  Chilean Army clearing antitank and antipersonnel mine fields in Tierra del Fuego

  

  The Chilean Army is currently clearing four fields planted with anti-personnel mines in Tierra del Fuego and will move to another four once the job is finalized, reported the Commander Gonzalo Echeverria, from the 5th Engineers Battalion seated in Punta Arenas.

• Friday, April 22nd 2011 - 04:59 UTC

  Humpback whales return to Chilean waters; Punta Arenas planning watch-posts

  

  Humpback whales, once hunted nearly to extinction, started returning to Chilean seas in the 1990s. By 2003 so many had appeared that Chile created a protected coastal area, Francisco Coloane with marine park in it to assure the whales would have the nutrients they need to thrive.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2011 - 05:14 UTC

  Oil exploration in extreme south of Chile attracts 400 million USD in three years

  

  In the coming three years hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation in the extreme south of Chile will receive investment equivalent to over 400 million US dollars making Punta Arenas a hub for the regional oil industry.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 20:52 UTC

  January’s gas rates conflict in Punta Arenas takes its toll: governor resigns

  

  Governor Liliana Kusanovic, from the extreme south Chilean Magallanes region has resigned alleging the need to care for family affairs and denying any link with January’s gas prices strike which paralyzed the region for a week. Ms Kusanovic’s resignation, which belongs to the ruling coalition, was accepted and made public Monday.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 18:44 UTC

  Argentina opens boat access to Tierra del Fuego eliminating Chilean crossing

  

  Argentina’s government is opening a new path to Tierra del Fuego that will give travellers, who once had to pass through Chile to reach the southernmost tip of the continent, the option of skipping Chile altogether.