What is "santiago"

Santiago (pop. 5 million) is the capital city of Chile, named in honour of Saint James. Four other notable cities are also often referred to simply as "Santiago":

• Santiago de Compostela, Spain (pop. 100,000), to which the Way of St. James (El Camino de Santiago) leads.
• Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (pop. 500,000)
• Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (pop. 690,000)
• Santiago, Philippines (pop. 132,000)

Santiago may also refer to:

• Santiago, Spanish name for James, son of Zebedee, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.
• Santiago (surname)
• Santiago (name), a Spanish given name
• Santiago!, a shortened form of the Reconquista battle cry "Santiago y cierra, España"
• Order of Santiago, a Spanish knightly order
• Santiago, nickname for the version 6 beta of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 beta operating system

Santiago (; ), also known as Santiago de Chile , is the capital and largest city of Chile. It is also the center of its largest conurbation. Santiago is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level.

Founded in 1541, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most points in the city. These mountains contribute to a considerable smog problem, particularly during winter. The city outskirts are surrounded by vineyards and Santiago is within a few hours of both the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Santiago is the cultural, political and financial center of Chile and is home to the regional headquarters of many multinational corporations. The Chilean executive and judicial powers are located in Santiago, but Congress meets mostly in nearby Valparaíso. Santiago is named after the biblical figure St. James.

Santiago City, officially City Of Santiago , is an independent component city located between southwestern part of Isabela and northwestern boundary of Quirino in Northeastern Luzon island of the Philippines. It is the gateway to the vast plains of Cagayan Valley. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 134,830 people. As per the City Population Office, Santiago's population stood at 145,300 in 2015.

Santiago is situated north of Metro Manila. The city sits on a vast area of predominantly flat and fertile land in the Cagayan Valley, surrounded by the Caraballo Mountains to the south, the Great Sierra Madre to the east and the Cordillera Mountain Range to the west.

Though geographically located within the boundaries of the province of Isabela and part of the province's 4th District, Santiago City is administratively and legally independent from the province as stated in Section 25 of the LGC.

Santiago is a fictional character in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, specifically the novel Interview with the Vampire.

Little history or background is given to this character in the novel; his role is primarily that of a European vampire who becomes an enemy of the main character, Louis de Pointe du Lac. In subsequent novels his character is expanded.

After fleeing from their maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, the Creole vampires Louis and Claudia make their way to Europe to try to find other vampires and answers to the questions Lestat never answered. They make passage through a few countries before they decide to continue their search in Paris. In Paris, they encounter Santiago, a member of the "Theatre of Vampires" led by Armand, a group of vampires once founded by Lestat from the remnants of an ancient vampire coven. The theatre puts on performances involving feeding on terrified humans before a human audience (who think the killings are merely a very realistic performance).

Santiago suspects Claudia and Louis of killing their maker and leads the theatre vampires in abducting and sentencing them to death: Louis is locked in a coffin to starve, while Claudia and her new-found companion Madeleine are exposed to the sun. Louis, who is saved by Armand, takes his revenge by burning the theatre to the ground, killing all the vampires inside, including Santiago.

Santiago is a comarca in the Galician Province of A Coruña. The overall population of this local region is 150,286 (2005).

Santiago is an indie/ punk band from Santa Rosa, California that formed in 2002 and has released three full-length albums. Though generally more sophisticated musically, the band claims a staunch punk rock aesthetic to their approach.

The Santiago micro-region (Microrregião de Santiago) is a micro-region in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The area is 11,213.844 km².

The Santiago is the women's volleyball team of Santiago.

Santiago is a former civil parish in the municipality of Tavira, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Tavira (Santa Maria e Santiago).

Santiago ( English: Saint James) is a former civil parish ( freguesia) in the city and municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It had a total area of 0.06 km² and total population of 846 inhabitants (2009); density: 13,823 hab/km². At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish Santa Maria Maior.

Santiago, (also San Iago, San Tiago, Santyago, Sant-Yago, San Thiago) is a Spanish name that derives from the Hebrew name Jacob (Ya'akov) via "Sant Iago", "Sant Yago", "Santo Iago", or "Santo Yago", first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of John the Apostle. It was also the tradition that Saint James (Santiago) had traveled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is also complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of James.

Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common Galician language name), and Thiago or Tiago (a common Portuguese language name). The common name James has many forms in Iberia, including Xacobo or Xacobe (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume, Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish). Despite being a cognate, San Diego does not refer to Saint Jacob but to Saint Didacus of Alcalá.

Santiago is also the patron saint of Spain, after whom many cities have been named in Spain itself and throughout its former empire, such as:

• The city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain is dedicated to St. James the Great.
• Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador
• Santiago de Cuba.
• Santiago de Chile.
• Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico
• Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
• Santiago, Philippines
• Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
• Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala.
• Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.

"Santi" is the nickname for Santiago, although " Sandy" is frequently used in English-speaking countries.

Santiago, a part of the Omni Series box set is the sixth studio album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was first released in December 2008 as a box set along with Steel (Omni Series 1) and Purple Vista (Omni Series 2).

Santiago is one of three parishes in Sariego, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is in size, with a population of 694 (INE 2005).

Santiago is both a Spanish and Portuguese surname. The surname Santiago was first found in Galicia, Spain. There are other forms that are shortening of Santiago: Sant, Santo, Sancto, Sancti, Sanct, Sanctis Santi. Also these spellings apply to all the righteous men of the Calendar of the days of the Patron Saints. Santiago is a habitational name from any of the numerous places named for the dedication of churches to St. James (Sant Iago).

The Iglesia de Santiago is a Neo-Gothic church in the locality of Sama, in the municipality of Langreo, Asturias, Spain.

A church similar in plan to the present, but simpler and not as tall, was first built in the 19th century and dedicated to San Eulogio. It was burned in October 1934, during the Spanish Civil War. It was rebuilt in the 1950s.

Category:Churches in Asturias Category:19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings

Santiago is an album by The Chieftains, released through RCA Records in 1996. The album is dedicated to traditional music of Galicia, the region in the northwest of Spain, and also adaptation of Galician emigrants' musical folklore in Latin American music, for example, in the music of Mexico and Cuba. As Paddy Moloney noted in the CD's booklet, Galicia is "the world's most undiscovered Celtic country".

The album features collaborations with Carlos Núñez, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder, Eliot Fisk, Richard Egües, Pancho Amat, Kepa Junkera (among others). In 1997, the album earned the group the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

The Commune of Santiago is the central commune of the Santiago Province, located at the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile's Central Zone. Locally, Santiago is usually abbreviated Stgo. It is also called as "Santiago Centro" (Downtown Santiago) in order to differentiate it from Greater Santiago, a larger entity which includes Santiago Commune along with other 36 communes.

Santiago also known as The Gun Runner is a 1956 film starring and co-produced by Alan Ladd set in 1898 Cuba against the background of the Cuban War of Independence. Martin Rackin wrote the screenplay, based on his unpublished novel, as well as producing the film.

Santiago (Santiáu in Asturian language) is a parish located in Valdés, a municipality within the province and Autonomous Community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Santiago is a corregimiento in Santiago District, Veraguas Province, Panama with a population of 31,065 as of 2010. It is the seat of Santiago District. Its population as of 1990 was 43,874; its population as of 2000 was 32,480.

Santiago was a Spanish Armada supply ship that wrecked south of Bergen, Norway in 1588 (Ødegaard 2001: 19). It was built in 1551 probably in Flanders and, at 37 years old, was one of the oldest ships in the Armada (Ødegaard 2001: 13, Martin & Parker 1999: 26). Santiago was an urca (hulk), a type of ship used to carry goods between northern Europe and southern Europe. Spanish authorities seized Santiago in 1587 while it lay in port in Sanlúcar de Barrameda and pressed it into service for the Armada’s planned invasion of England (Ødegaard 2001: 13).

Santiago carried a variety of supplies and armament. These included 24 artillery mules, gunpowder, musket balls, horseshoes, horseshoe nails, hinges, wagon rods, barrel bands, iron plates, lead bar, and hardtack (Ødegaard 2001: 30,34,74). Santiago was equipped with 19 canons (Ødegaard 2001: 14, Martin & Parker 1999: 264).

Santiago had 116 people on board when it sailed with the rest of the Armada from La Coruña out into the English Channel to engage the English fleet in July 1588 (Ødegaard 2001: 15, Martin & Parker 1999: xix). The crew consisted of 33 sailors and officers (civilians), 16 stable boys, 3 artillerists, 32 Spanish soldiers, and 32 women who were the wives of the 32 Spanish soldiers. This unusual arrangement (carrying soldiers’ wives) earned Santiago the moniker “ship of the women” (Martin & Parker 1999: 26,264).

Four people had responsibility for the ship and people on board (Ødegaard 2001: 26,29). The captain was Nicolán de Juan of Aragon. The skipper was Simon Unique. Alonso de Olmos had command of the Spanish soldiers. Diego de la Nava had command of the men who operated the artillery and cared for the mules.

After losing a series of battles with the English fleet, the Armada escaped by sailing north between England and Norway (Martin & Parker 1999: 211). They planned to sail around the north end of the British Isles, out into the Atlantic Ocean, then south to Spain. Many ships began to fall behind (Martin & Parker 1999: 211, Ødegaard 2001: 29).

In very bad weather with a strong headwind, running short of supplies, and leaking, Santiago finally turned east and ran with the wind toward Norway (Ødegaard 2001: 29). They made landfall on 18 September 1588 near Skudeneshavn (Ødegaard 2001: 34) and picked up a local man who agreed to guide them north to Bergen. As they sailed up the coast, they encountered another strong storm. Leaking badly, they turned into Hardanger Fjord and wrecked near Mosterhamn (Ødegaard 2001: 34).

Everyone survived the wreck (Ødegaard 2001: 34). After a few months stay at several locations in the Bergen area, most of the crew sailed on a German ship toward Hamburg but wrecked again near Halmstad, Sweden (Ødegaard 2001: 19). They then traveled mostly overland to Buxtehude, a town near Hamburg, where they asked to be released to find their own way home (Ødegaard 2001: 39).