Bicentennial of Chile

The Junta assembled a National Congress, which José Miguel Carrera overturned with a coup d'état.

However, the Puente Bicentenario (Bicentennial Bridge), which was to connect Chiloé Island with Continental Chile, was canceled after the estimated cost exceeded the budgeted funds, yet the project was revived in 2012.

In 2008 Correos de Chile started a public competition to design postage stamps to commemorate the Bicentennial.

The Bicentennial logo is on the obverse side, and on the reverse a map of Chile, showing the Pacific Ocean, the Andes Mountains and the Andean Cross.

Chilevisión also dramatized guerrilla Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza's biography on the homonymic TV series.

Starting in 2008, La Red exhibited Agenda Bicentenario (Bicentennial Schedule), showing important places of Chile during its history.

Finally, Megavisión launched the TV series Adiós al Séptimo de Línea (Goodbye to the Seventh Line) in 2010, based on Jorge Inostroza's homonymic book.

These regions celebrated the Bicentennial, but they have belonged to Chile only for 130 years, because they were formerly part of Peru, which gained its independence in 1821.

Logo of the Bicentennial of Chile.
First Government Junta of Chile , in 1810. It was presided over by Mateo de Toro y Zambrano .
Commemorative stamps of the Centennial of Chile, which were re-designed and re-printed in 2009.