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Santiago
About Santiago
Santiago, the capital of the Chili, a modern metropolis Santiago located at 543 m above sea level only 100 km from the Pacific Ocean and 40 km from the Andean mountain range.
Local highlights
Explore the city
- Barrio Bellavista, cultural and bohemian neighborhood
- Central Station, railway station designed by Gustave Eiffel
- Mercado Central
- Los Dominicos market if you like to hunt for souvenirs
- Víctor Jara Stadium
- Ex National Congress
- Plaza de Armas, downtown square
- Palacio de La Moneda, presidential palace
- Catedral de Santiago
- The Telefónica bulding, shaped like a giant cell phone
- Cerro Santa Lucía: climbing the Santa Lucía hill - via a maze of swirling stairways, turrets and fountains
- San Cristóbal hill with a gut-churning ride on the aerial tramway
Explore its many famous museums and historical sights, such as
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
- Museo Arqueológico de Santiago
- Museo de Santiago Casa Colorada
- Museo Catedral Metropolitana
- Museo Colonial San Francisco
- Museo Histórico Nacional
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
- Palacio Cousiño
- Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
Highlights in the vicinity
Explore the environment of Santiago, such as
- Trekking in the mountain ranges east of Santiago
- Wineries-Cajón de Maipo (Maipo Canyon) is the heart of Chile’s wine production
- Viña del Mar is a beach resort with exciting nightlife
- Valparaiso is the main port of Chile (124 km from Santiago)
- Valle Nevado Chile's premier ski resort (60 km from Santiago) with 107 kilometers of trails and 41 ski lifts
Good to know
- No. of inhabitants: 6 Million (urban region)
- Timezone: UTC -4
- Weather: Santiago has relatively hot dry summers (November to March) with temperatures reaching up to 35 °C; winters (June to August) are more humid, with typical maximum daily temperatures of 15 °C, and minimums of a few degrees above freezing. Mean rainfall is 360 mm per year.
- Smog and air pollution can be a problem especially during winter months
- Police tel. nr. 133
Local transport
- Privately-run micros (for microbus) service (yellow buses)
- Subway
- Taxis
- black with yellow roofs are metered taxis
- radiotaxis are unmarked and can be called
- Colectivos are shared taxis that carry passengers along a specific route, for a fixed fee
- Aerial tramway to top of Cerro San Cristobel
Inbound transport
- Nearest airport: Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport
- Trains: services from Santiago to Puerto Montt, in the central-southern part of the country
- Private inter-urban bus companies are cheap
- Car-toll highways
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