An industrial city in Chile south of Santiago

Usage examples of concepcion.

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, the largest and most regal of the Pacific armada treasure galleons, leaned onto her port side and came around on a reverse course to the southwest.

But lulled by the Spanish belief that the South Seas were their private pond, and the knowledge that none of their ships had ever been attacked or captured by a foreign raider, the Concepcion was lightly armed with only two guns to reduce her tonnage so she could carry heavier cargo.

The next four days were spent transferring the fantastic treasure trove from the cargo holds of the Concepcion to the Golden Hind.

This time the sea slowly rolled back, stranding the Concepcion and exposing the floor of the sea.

Drake had sent the Concepcion back to England under the command of the Golden Hind's sailing master, Thomas Cuttill.

The key to unlocking the mystery of the Concepcion, if there was one, had to be buried somewhere else.

Instead, he slowly walked through the scattered remains of the Concepcion and studied her final position and configuration He could almost trace the original outline by the shape of the broken mounds of debris.

On the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, the Beagle one day passed through great bands of muddy water, exactly like that of a swollen river.

If during the earthquake [10] whic in 1835 overthrew Concepcion, in Chile, it was thought wonderful that small bodies should have been pitched a fe inches from the ground, what must we say to a movemen which has caused fragments many tons in weight, to mov onwards like so much sand on a vibrating board, and fin their level?

In central Chile, on the other hand, a little northward of Concepcion, the sky is generally clear, rain does not fall for the seven summer months, and southern European fruits succeed admirably.

The mayor-domo of the estate quickly rode down to tell me the terrible news of the great earthquake of the 20th: -- "That not a house in Concepcion or Talcahuano (the port) was standing.

In Concepcion each house, or row of houses, stood by itself, a heap or line of ruins.

From this circumstance Concepcion, although not so completely desolated, was a more terrible, and if I may so call it, picturesque sight.

The disturbance seems generally, as in the case of Concepcion, to have been of two kinds: first, at the instant of the shock, the water swells high up on the beach with a gentle motion, and then as quietly retreats.

There can be no doubt that the land round the Bay of Concepcion was upraised two or three feet.