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SantiagoValparaíso

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Narrated by The Chronicler Focus: Poets & Ports 116 km · about 88 min · 15 stories

Over the coast range from Santiago to Neruda's harbor city: Lord Cochrane's navy, the Casablanca Valley vineyards, the Coast of Poets, and Valparaíso itself — the Jewel of the Pacific, a port of funiculars and painted hills that the Panama Canal nearly killed.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    Lord Cochrane's Chilean Naval Command

  2. 2
    Lo Prado, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Poetic Beginnings of Neruda Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Pudahuel, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Poetic Beginnings of Neruda Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Pudahuel, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Poetic Beginnings of Neruda Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Pudahuel, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    Geography of the Chilean Coast

  6. 6
    Curacaví, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Colonial Post of Curacaví

  7. 7
    Curacaví, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Coast of Poets

  8. 8
    Curacaví, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Casablanca Valley Wine Region

  9. 9
    Curacaví, Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The Casablanca Valley Airstrip

  10. 10
    Casablanca, Valparaíso

    The Rivalries of Chilean Poets

  11. 11
    Casablanca, Valparaíso

    The Reservoir of Valparaíso

  12. 12
    Valparaíso, Valparaíso

    The Jewel of the Pacific Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  13. 13
    Valparaíso, Valparaíso

    The Jewel of the Pacific Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  14. 14
    Valparaíso, Valparaíso

    The Jewel of the Pacific Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  15. 15
    Valparaíso, Valparaíso

    Valparaíso's Historic Trolleybus System

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.