Punta Arenas, ChilePUNTA ARENAS, Oct 23 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic arrivedin Punta Arenas in south Chile on Sunday where he is scheduled to meetrepresentatives of the Croat community after such trips to Santiagoand
Antofagasta.
PUNTA ARENAS, Oct 23 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic
arrived in Punta Arenas in south Chile on Sunday where he is scheduled to meet
representatives of the Croat community after such trips to Santiago and
Antofagasta. Punta Arenas is a city to which Croatian immigrants
started arriving in the second half of the 19th century and from there
continued to settle in others parts of Chile.
Fifteen per cent of Punta Arenas' population, or 30,000 residents, are
Croatian. A Croatian club is active in the city which also has a Croatian
language newspaper, Male Novine. Classes in one school are taught in
Croatian.