Panteón Hill

Panteón is Spanish for cemetery.

[1] At the beginning of the 19th century, the people of Valparaíso used to bury their dead by letting them wash away in the ocean or on the tops of hills.

These unsanitary practices eventually caused a health crisis.

In 1825, the government bought some lands to found a cemetery on the hill on the periphery of the city.

The Catholics originally created the cemetery nº1, and with the help of British immigrants a second one was created to bury at those not of the Catholic faith, called Dissidents Cemetery.