|Notes: Italian Chilean
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Claudia Conserva . Fernando Alessandri . Nicole Natalino
According to other estimations, many Italo-Argentines settled mainly in Chile, plus 600,000 of Chilean having Italian ancestry.
5% of Chile's population.
Regions with significant populations
Chilean Spanish, Italian
Related ethnic groups
Italian Chileans (In Spanish: Italochileno, Italian: Italo-cileno) are Chileans of Italian descent. The Chilean census officially states 150,000 Chileans of Italian descent, but could be 3 to 4 times the number or above 600,000, due to the census using Italian surnames to identify those of Italian descent. According to other estimates, Italian Chileans reach 800,000 residents with some Chileans (distant or close) Italian ancestry, including Italo-Argentinian transplanted in Chile. One of the notable Italian influences in Chile is, for example, the sizable amount of Italian surnames of a proportion of Chilean politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, of whom a good number intermarried into the "Castilian-Basques" elites.
Italian Chileans along with French Chileans contributed to the development, cultivation and ownership of the world-famous Chilean wines from haciendas in the Central Valley ever since the first wave of Italians arrived to colonial Chile in the early 19th century.
Although being just a fraction of the size of the migration to Argentina, Italian immigration to Chile has been present since the arrival of the first Spaniards into the country, like captain Giovanni Battista Pastene who helped Pedro de Valdivia's expedition. Thence, with akin Latin culture, Italians have helped forge the nation, with architects (Gioacchino Toesca), painters (Camilo Mori), businessmen (Anacleto Angelini), Economists (Vittorio Corbo) and statesmen (Arturo Alessandri).
In an unusual manner, since Italian immigration was never massive or organized, the only case of concerted immigration appeared in the town of Capit?n Pastene, in the Araucan?a region in southern Chile, where in 1904, 23 families from Emilia-Romagna were left at their own device after being wrongfully enticed to the "riches" of Chile. Today, this small town celebrates a renaissance of their Italic heritage.
Italian emigration in Chile was limited to a few tens of Italians during the centuries of the Spanish colony.
After independence, the Chilean government encouraged European emigration, but without getting the results from the nearby Argentina.
However, there was a substantial flow of migration Liguria to the area of Valpara?so, which came to control 70% of the city. These immigrants founded the 'Body of Fire' (called "Cristobal Colon") of the city and its' Italian School ', whose building has been declared by the Government of Chile "Monumento Hist?rico Nacional. 
La Plaza Baquedano of Santiago Chile is commonly calledPiazza Italia
At the end of the nineteenth century many Italian merchants are rooted in the northern part of Arica, where they began exploiting the rich mines of saltpetre. Meanwhile, many Italian families settled in the capital Santiago, a Concepci?n and Punta Arenas.
In 1904 was planned emigration of 700 immigrants Emilia in a town of 'Araucan?a, which was named "Colonia Nueva Italia" and now called Capitan Pastene.
Throughout the central-southern zone of Chile is transplanted to the early XX Italiani 7.700. 
Some Italian-Chilean voluntarily returned to Italy, like the aviator Arturo Dell'Oro died skies of Belluno in 1917, which is headed to Valparaiso one of the main Italian schools in Chile
After World War I is exhausted migration from 'Italy, in Chile and currently there are only 39,650 Italian citizens (including those with dual passports). 
Many Italian-Chilean, estimated at over 150,000 currently , have reached positions of leadership in the society of Chile, like the president Jorge Alessandri.
according to other estimates reach 800,000 residents with some Chileans (distant or close) Italian ancestry, including the Italian-Argentine transplanted in Chile
 Italian Community
The Italian community has been present since the times of Giovanni Battista Pastene, which participated in the discovery of Chile to the Spanish crown in the shipment of Pedro de Valdivia.
Since then, Italians have always occupied positions of great importance, also married with members of 'high society Chilean of Spanish origin who ruled Chile This is the case, for example, the wife of Salvador Allende, the Italian Chilean-Hortensia Bussi.
An anecdote demonstrates the importance of Italian culture in the people of Chile: the influence of a shoemaker genovese, named Giovanni De Marchi on Salvador Allende. Indeed, the President Allende said the journalist R?gis Debray that De Marchi had a strong influence on its policy of training adolescent. : ((Quote |Just finished classes went to speak to this anarchist who had a great deal of influence on my life as a boy. He was sixty, or perhaps sixty years, and would chat with me. I was taught to play chess, I spoke of things of political life, and I lent books))
Undoubtedly, the Italian family that has distinguished itself more in Chile is that of Alessandri. In the first th, the parent, Giuseppe Pietro Alessandri Tarzo, came from Tuscany and worked as Consul of the Kingdom of Sardinia in Santiago. Among his descendants there are two presidents of Chile Arturo Alessandri (1920-1925 and 1932-1938) and Jorge Alessandri (1958-1964).
L 'Italo-Chilean Claudia Conserva, actress and TV presenter
Among the Italian-Chilean will have the most illustrious architects (as Gioacchino Toeschi), painters (as Camilo Mori), industrial (as Anacleto Angelini), actresses (like Claudia Conserva), economists (as Vittorio Corbo) and statesmen ( as the President Arturo Alessandri and his son).
The English is promoted by the Chilean section ofDante Alighieri, while the Italian press has with:
* The GazetteItaliana in Chile, bimonthly (Santiago de Chile), Director Nadir Moroso.
* Presence, fortnightly (Providence, 1969), publisher and editorial director Giuseppe Tommasi (Scalabrini Fathers).
There are some Italian schools in Chile (the most important are located in Santiago, the "Victor Montiglio"  and Valparaiso, the "Arturo Dell'Oro" [http:/ / www.scuolaitalianavalpo.cl/scuolavalpo/]) and some organizations protect and serve the Italian community. 
In the southern Chilean town named Capitan Pastene is currently a small concentration of 2,200 Italo-Chilean, who constitute almost all of the local population and maintain a few words of Italian dialect of their ancestors emigrated.
Indeed, in 1904 about 100 families from the province of Modena moved there, as organized by the Chilean Government to populate a newly pacified by Chilean troops in their war against the tribes araucana. 
These families founded the "Colonia Nueva Italia", which currently is called Capitan Pastena and that is experiencing a revival of tourism based on the culture still present in the town.
Notable Italian Chileans
* Arturo Alessandri liberal politician, senator, President of Chile
* Fernando Alessandri politician
* Gustavo Alessandri Balmaceda politician
* Hernan Alessandri politician, lawyer
* Jorge Alessandri politician, President of Chile
* Anacleto Angelini businessman
* Carla Ballero model
* Francisco Bartolucci politician, lawyer
* Ernesto Belloni actor, comedian
* Vicente Bianchi pianist
* Cecilia Bolocco Miss Universe 1987, model, TV hostess
* Diana Bolocco TV hostess
* Hortensia Bussi First Lady of Chile, wife of President Salvador Allende
* Silvio Caiozzi film director
* Margarita "Maggie" Campos Buquelli singer
* Julio Canessa, military, politician
* Leo Caprile TV host
* Pedro Carcuro TV host
* Brenda Carpenetti musician
* Marcelo Comparini TV host
* Claudia Conserva TV hostess
* Fabrizio Copano TV host, comedian
* Nicol?s Copano TV host
* Vittorio Corbo President of the Central Bank of Chile
* Nicol?s Corvetto football (soccer) player
* Luz Croxatto actress
* Jaime Davagnino TV productor
* Mercedes Ducci TV hostess
* Ignacio Franzani TV host
* Carlo de Gavardo moto driver
* Javier di Gregorio football (soccer) goalkeeper
* Misael Escuti football (soccer) player
* Giovanni Falchetti singer
* Armando Galasso singer
* Eduardo Gatti singer
* Humberto Giannini philosopher
* Paola Gianinni actress
* Guido Girardi politician
* Claudia Di Gir?lamo actress
* Claudio Di Gir?lamo artist, painter
* Luis Gnecco actor
* Fernando Gonz?lez Ciuffardi, tennis player
* Coca Guazzini actress
* Aline K?ppenheim Gualtieri actress
* Berta Lasala actress
* Gladys Lucavecchi singer
* Angelo Macchiavello musician
* Beatriz Marinello chess player
* Manuela Martelli actress
* Macarena Mina model, Miss Chile 1989
* Leslie Masserano singer
* Nicole Natalino singer
* Marlen Olivari model
* Soledad Onetto journalist, TV hostess
* Antonella Orsini actress
* Aldo Parodi actor
* ?talo Passalacqua journalist
* Giovanni Batista Pastene explorer
* Manuel Pellegrini former football (soccer) player, trainer
* Jos? Perotti painter
* Leonardo Perucci actor
* Giancarlo Petaccia TV host
* Angelo Pierattini musician
* Osvaldo Puccio politician, diplomat
* Eduardo Ravani actor
* Virginia Reginato mayor of Vi?a del Mar
* Johanna Rezzio singer
* Antonella R?os Mascetti actress
* Susana Roccatagliata TV hostess, writer
* Ricardo Rozzi biologist, philosopher
* ?lvaro Scaramelli musician
* Aldo Schiappacasse TV presenter
* Pablo Striano actor, philosopher
* Gianina Talloni voice actress
* Andrea Tessa singer
* Gioacchino Toesca architect
* Cristopher Toselli football (soccer) goalkeeper
* Manuel Trucco politician, diplomat, senator
* Marcela Vacarezza TV hostess
* Soledad Vacarezza journalist
* Guido Vecchiola actor
* Macarena Venegas Tassara lawyer, judge
* Mathias Vidangossy football (soccer) player
* Giancarlo Zolezzi swimmer
* Chile-Italy relations
For original article with references see "Italian Chilean."