| LC control no. | n 95053284 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Colonia Dignidad (Chile) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Chile--Colonia Dignidad |
| Variant(s) | Siedlung Colonia Dignidad Colonie Dignité (Chile) |
| Found in | Colonia Dignidad, 1993: t.p. (Colonia Dignidad) p. 5, etc. (200 km south of Santiago, near Parral; est. ca. 1961; Siedlung Colonia Dignidad) La colonie du docteur Schaefer, c2004: p. 9 (Colonie Dignité) Wikipedia, Sept. 4, 2016 unverified article under Villa Baviera (Colonia Dignidad was ca. 35 km southeast of the city of Parral, on the north bank of the Perquilauquén River. Colonia Dignidad was founded by German émigrés in the mid-1950s. Its most notorious leader, Paul Schäfer, arrived in the colony in 1961. The full name of the colony from the 1950s was Sociedad Benefactora y Educacional Dignidad (English: Dignity Charitable and Educational Society). At its largest, Colonia Dignidad was home to some three hundred German and Chilean residents, and covered 137 square kilometers (53 sq mi). The main legal economic activity of the colony was agriculture; at various periods it also was home to a school, a hospital, two airstrips, a restaurant, and a power station. Chile's National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, has reported that a small set of the individuals taken by Chile's military leader Pinochet's Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional during his rule were held as prisoners at Colonia Dignidad, some of whom were subjected to torture; the population of this location was 198 in the census of 2002) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Baviera> |
| Not found in | BGN Chile, 1967; Lista de nombres geográficos (Chile), 1983 |
| Geographic area code | s-cl--- |
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