New national park to be named for Pablo Neruda

Plans are underway to create a national park in the rare coastal temperate rainforests of Chile’s Tenth Region and to name it for the famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Expected to encompass up to 320,000 acres (130,000 hectares) of rainforest, rivers, lakes, coastline and more, the tract would rank as Chile’s second largest park. (The largest is the privately owned Pumalín Park in northern Patagonia, created by U.S. entrepreneur Douglas Tompkins.) Government officials and leaders of Chilean non-governmental groups say they hope to inaugurate Pablo Neruda Park on Jan. 9, 2004. That’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Neruda, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda died in 1973, after Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power in a military coup. The... [Log in to read more]

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