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Culture of Villa Alemana


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ut this tributary Limache Valley has lost its hydraulic conditions so that its bottom is now covered lean to snippets of sandiales "

"The line enters this rustic drawer by a spacious curve that starts in the station, and then, bending over the rail to the northeast, down the side of the ditch right of Lebo , for two leagues, with a strong gradient descent, down to the trains, poses a serious difficulty. From Limache, located at the height of 289 feet, then climbs on those trips to 502 feet, which is the level of Pe�a Blanca , in the space of just 12 kilometers "

Pe�a Blanca

"The engine works with a certain laziness in the gradient that provides life here until next season because that is comparatively soft (167 feet in 9 miles ), and taking the train to plain Quilpu� auction, we have come to White Rock. "

"This is not exactly a traffic station, because it has no interest to serve, but a strategic point of the line, which necessitated the combination of Mr. Lloyd.

The gradient of Pe�a Blanca, which is to locomotives and wagons axes which snails slope Zapata Prado and the old wagons, here reaches its peak to 502 feet high, and then drops sharply to Limache. Trains repechan down here 313 feet in 12 miles , for so when convoys are very heavy, the drivers into two ... and then the locomotive drags a half after another ... ".

Groups

The Floripondio

It is a group started in 1991 in Villa Alemana, led by Aldo Asenjo, who in turn has its own set of cumbias parallel to the band Chico Trujillo. Bringing together the most diverse styles and with a clear and almost euphoric hallucinogen have been able to create a very original music. At first started playing in the few places that existed at the time, and on their own they released their first album Dying with Their Boots On (1993).

San Felipe Neri Parish

It was in November 1962 when a small group of residents of Barrio Norte headed by
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