Santiago facts for kids
Santiago could mean:
Places
In Argentina:
- Santiago del Estero Province
- Santiago del Estero, capital of the province
In Brazil:
- Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul
In Cape Verde:
In Chile:
- Santiago, Chile, the capital
- Santiago (commune)
- Santiago Province, Chile
- Santiago Metropolitan Region
In Colombia:
In Costa Rica:
- Santiago de Palmares, Palmares Canton
- Santiago de Paraíso, Paraíso Canton
- Santiago de Puriscal
- Santiago de San Rafael, San Rafael Canton
- Santiago de San Ramón, San Ramón Canton
In Cuba:
- Santiago de Cuba Province
- Santiago de Cuba, capital of the province
In Dominican Republic:
- Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
- Santiago de los Caballeros, capital of the province
In Ecuador:
- Santiago de Guayaquil
- Santiago Island (Galápagos)
In Jamaica:
- Santiago, a Spanish possession that later became Jamaica
In Mexico:
- Santiago de Querétaro
- Santiago, Nuevo León
- Santiago, Baja California Sur
- Santiago River (Mexico), a river of eastern Mexico
In Panama:
In Paraguay:
- Santiago, Paraguay, a town and district in Misiones Department
In Peru:
- Santiago de Surco, a district of Lima
- Santiago de Chuco, Santiago de Chuco District, a province of the La Libertad region
- Santiago River (Peru), a tributary of the Marañón River
In the Philippines:
- Santiago, Agusan del Norte
- Santiago, Ilocos Sur
- Santiago City, Isabela province
In Portugal:
- Santiago (Lisbon), a parish in the municipality of Lisbon
- Santiago (Tavira), a parish in the municipality of Tavira
- Santiago do Cacém, a parish and a municipality in the Setúbal
- Santiago de Piães, a parish in the municipality of Cinfães
- Vale de Santiago, a parish in the municipality of Odemira
In Spain:
- Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
- Santiago (Valdés), a parish in the municipality of Valdés
- Santiago (Sariego), a parish in the municipality of Sariego
- Santiago (comarca), a comarca in the province of A Coruña
- Santiago del Teide, Canary Islands
In the United States:
- Santiago Peak, a mountain in Orange County, California
- Santiago High School, Garden Grove, California
- Santiago Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota
- Santiago, Pennsylvania
Images for kids
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Municipality of Santiago Commune
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1541 founding of Santiago. Painting by Pedro Lira, the portrait of Pedro de Valdivia and Juan Martín de Candia; proclaiming the City of Santiago de Chile, c. 1541
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The Calicanto bridge over the Mapocho river was the main symbol of the city of Santiago after its inauguration in 1779.
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Battle of Maipú, 1818
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The Neptune Terrace, in the Santa Lucía Hill.
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The expansion to the periphery forced the Santiago metro extension to the commune of Maipú and Puente Alto. here an Alstom NS 74 (center) begins to leave a metro station, while an Alstom NS 93 (far lower right) is nearing the same metro station.
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The Gran Torre Santiago (Great Santiago Tower), part of the Costanera Center complex, is the second tallest building in Ibero-America
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Santiago by Human Development Index on a commune-basis in 2017.
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Façade of the Santiago Stock Exchange
See also
In Spanish: Santiago de Chile para niños