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QUILLOTA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUILLOTA  , a

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town of
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Chile in the
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province of
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Valparaiso, on the
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left
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bank of the
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Aconcagua
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river, 20 M. above its mouth and 26 m . E.N.E. of the
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city of Valparaiso . Pop . (1902 estimate) 9876 . The valley is noted for its beauty, fertility, and healthfulness, and is the centre of thriving
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fruit and
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wine
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industries . Among its fruits is the " chirimoya " (Anona cherimolia) . There are
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rich
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copper mines in the vicinity . Quillota is situated on a railway between Valparaiso and
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Santiago, which passes through a mountainous, semi-barren
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country . It is one of the
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oldest towns of Chile, dating from the first years of the
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conquest .

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