Valparaiso, val-pa-ri'so, the chief seaport of Chile. It is situated opposite Santiago, the capital. Charleston, South Carolina, and Valparaiso are about equally distant from the equator. The city has a fine harbor and is advantageously situated to command a large amount of the Pacific coast trade. There are large floating docks. The city is substantially built, with railroads, telegraphs, and telephone lines, and a sewage system. A bountiful supply of water is obtained from an artificial reservoir in the mountains capable of holding, it is said, 25,000,000,000 gallons. The population in 1907 was 160,800. See CHILE.