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Lota
South America is a continent situated in the western hemisphere and, mostly, the southern hemisphere, bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America occupying a long coastal strip between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean
Lota is a city located in the center of the Republic of Chile on the Gulf of Arauco. Lota was founded in 1667, and grew with the coal mining industry in the mid-nineteenth century. The city's coal mines, which were nationalized by Salvador Allende due to civil unrest and heavy Socialist support, were eventually closed in the 1990s after Augusto Pinochet deposed Allende's regime in a coup. This plunged the residents of Lota into poverty, and today the city is one of the poorest in Chile.
The dense Amazon rainforest, the jagged spires of the Andes Mountains, the Tropical beaches and the Towering waterfalls, with this kind of nature all around, it's no wonder why South America have become nearly synonymous with Adventure travel and ecotourism.
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