"Because once the cordillera and the desert that separate Chile from the rest of the known world have been crossed, you find gentle hills, fragant forests, fertile valleys, bounteous rivers, and a climate more pleasant than any in Spain or anywhere else I know. Chile is paradise, Don Pedro. It is there we must found our cities and prosper."
(Diego de Almagro le habla a Pedro de Valdivia en Ines del Alma mia, Isabel Allende)
