On the night of May 13, 1647, Santiago slept. The city was still small: a few blocks of low adobe houses, convents, dirt streets and ditches that crossed the then capital of the Kingdom of Chile. Beyond the Mapocho River began the fields and farms. Shortly before 10:30, the land began to move. The ground shook with unknown violence. The adobe walls began to open and fall on the rooms. The city was trapped in a cloud of dust after this earthquake…
On the night of May 13, 1647, Santiago slept. The city was still small: a few blocks of low adobe houses, convents, dirt streets and ditches that crossed the then capital of the Kingdom of Chile. Beyond the Mapocho River began the fields and farms. Shortly before 10:30, the land began to move. The ground shook with unknown violence. The adobe walls began to open and fall on the rooms. The city was trapped in a cloud of dust after this earthquake…