Chile Forum

I live in the Twin Cities. I'm in Coon Rapids, a suburb of Minneapolis.

I did get the PM, thanks.

It has been a while since I have been back to MN. The fact that you refer to Coon Rapids as a suburb of Twin Cities show how much that area has grown.

Funny. I am also fairly new to MN. I lived in WI until I was 19, then moved to Minneapolis for school. So I'm new to what is a suburb and what is not, so I could be wrong.

I do not doubt it is a subburb. People have recently started to talk about towns like Pine City as if they were Subburbs of the twin cities. That is where my family use to go to our cabin to get back to nature durring the summers.

I think I know where that is. I've heard of Pine City, at least. I see you are in Temuco. I have a friend I met online, also adopted from Chile, and she was born in Temuco. She was lucky enough to go there last winter with the lady who helped her parents with her adoption. She went to Santiago for a bit as well, and took lots of pictures for me. She was really moved by the experience, I hope to be able to see Chile someday also.

Southern Chile looks a lot like MN, only without the mosquitos and the snow is never more than waist deep even in the mountains. Mostly it rains a lot of the time in the winter, but the summers are like MN but less humid.

Mosquitos-that's a question! Hi, sorry to barge in. My boyfriend just spent the last month travelling through Chile looking at/for property with the intention of relocating us. Needless to say, he fell in love with the country and the people he met, despite his lack of Spanish. (He did make a good start on his Pisco resistance,however) Anyway, as he traversed Chile physically, I did my own virtual tour, and happily found your brilliant website! So...mosquitos; I am a mosquito magnet. A veritable beacon of blood for those flying monsters! Will I be moving to a country where mosquitos the size of jack-rabbits darken the skies? And biting flies-what's up with them? How is the, um, insect life?

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Yikes! Guess maybe we'll focus our search on the SOUTHERN part of the country! Hey, here's a less...creepy...question: when there's a bunch of land bordering a property marked "Reserva Forestal", does that mean it's being protected, or possibly just being protected for future logging interests? And is there somewhere one can find out who's holding the water rights on a place? Public records of some sort?

Good job from puelche on Bug's Life on Chile.
I would like to throw the occasional flea into the equation.

Yes,there is no major venomous critters in Chile.
On the matter of the "cacuna" is really named Cuncuna (,and it is basically a spiny caterpillar redish to black in color that attack pines specially in the south of chile ( i used to go down South and buy pine in logs ).
If you see one try no to touch it, stings like hell.
Pictures here:
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=0017002 and here http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1428136.
On the vinchuca,pictured here, http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/zulu789/vinchuca_g.jpg . these is a nasty bug that carries and transmit the "Chagas Disease" and is mostly found in the North ,this bug likes to live in the straw roof and in the cracks of adobe houses.
More from my friends of Wiki, here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease
Just for the anecdotic point it is rumored that the disease that kill Charles Darwin was "Chagas disease" that he contracted during his trip from Argentina to Chile.

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Lo siento,el puelche,I hate it when that happens! I look forward to your revised effort.