Chile Gazetteers

Online Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places at FamilySearch
 * World Gazetteers at Archive.org
 * Chile in Figures - Key Statistical data at NationsOnline.org
 * List of Cities and Towns in Child at Wikipedia.org
 * What are the historical places of Chile? at sayhueque.com
 * República de Chile, Republic of Chile at britannica.com
 * The World Factbook, Chile at cia.gov
 * Chile : a country study at Library of Congress

Print Only Gazetteers

 * United States Board on Geographic Names. Chile : official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1955.
 * United States Board on Geographic Names. Chile : official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1967.
 * Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Francisco Solano. Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile. New York, New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1867.
 * Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Francisco Solano. Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile. Santiago, Chile : s.n., 1899.
 * Riso Patrón, Luís. Diccionario jeográfico de Chile (i.e geográfico). Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmado por la Socidad Genealógica de Utah, 1973.
 * Echeverría y Reyes, Aníbal. Geografía politica de Chile : o sea recopilación de leyes y decretos vigentes sobre creación, límites y nombre de las provincias, departamentos, subdelegaciones y distritos de la república. Santiago, Chile : Imprenta Nacional, 1888.
 * Grau, Pedro Cunill. Atlas histórico de Chile. Santiago, Chile : Empresa Editoria Zig-Zag, 1961.
 * Fuentes, Jordi. Diccionario histórico de Chile. Santiago, Chile : Editorial del Pacífico, 1965.

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a country with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:


 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)