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The National Congress (Spanish: Congreso Nacional) is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of Chile. Source: Chilean Senate official web site: http://www. ... Source: Chilean Senate official web site: http://www. ...

The National Congress of Chile was founded on July 4, 1811. It is a bicameral legislature comprised by the Chamber of Deputies (lower house), of 120 members and by the Senate (upper house), formed by 49 parliamentarians. July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... Congress building The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile (Chiles bicameral Congress. ... Chile Congress building The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chiles bicameral Congress, as established in the current constitution. ...

The organisation of Congress and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of the current constitution and by the Constitutional Organic Law No. 18,918. Congress meets in the Chile Congress building, which was built during the last years of the Pinochet regime and stands in the port city of Valparaíso, some 140 km west of the capital, Santiago. This new bulding replaced the old National Congress, located in downtown Santiago. General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... Valparaíso is one of the main seaports of Chile, on the Pacific Ocean, and the capital of the Valparaíso Region. ... Satellite image of Santiago Santiago (full form Santiago de Chile) is the capital of Chile. ... The Former National Congress Building (ex Congreso Nacional) is the former home of the Chilean Congress. ...