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The National Monuments of Chile (Spanish: Monumentos Nacionales de Chile [MN], are those places, and properties, moveable or fixed, protected by the State of Chile under the 1970 Law No. 17,288 for the protection of National Monuments. This protection is managed by the Council of National Monuments (Spanish: Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales [CMN]) owing to the historical, artistic, scientific or commemorative value of those properties designated as national monuments, which represent the country's cultural heritage.
There are five categories of national monuments:
Historical Monuments
Archeological Monuments
Public Monuments
Nature Preserves
Typical Zones
List of monuments
The following lists tabulate all the country's monuments, organized by region:
Law N° 17.288 concerning national monuments stipulates that:
National monuments are places, ruins, constructions or objects of historical or artistic character; burial sites or cemeteries or other remains of aborigines, anthropo-archaeological, paleontological or natural formation pieces or objects, which exist under or on the surface of the national territory or underwater within its jurisdictional waters and whose conservation is of interest to history, art or science, and are under the custody and protection of the State; sanctuaries of nature; monuments, statues, columns, pyramids, fountains, plaques, crowns,[clarification needed] inscriptions and, in general, objects that are destined to remain in a public place, with a commemorative character.
As of October 2008[update] there are 938 national monuments. They are grouped into the following categories:
Historic monuments (633).
Public monuments (150).
Archaeological monuments (21).
Typical or picturesque zones (95).
Nature sanctuaries (39).
Historic monuments
Historic monuments are defined as:
...those places, ruins, constructions and objects of fiscal, municipal or private property that, due to their quality and historical or artistic interest or due to their antiquity, are declared as such by supreme decree, issued at the request and prior agreement of the Council.
— Law N° 17.288 of National Monuments, art. 9, De los Monumentos Históricos.
In the register of the National Monuments Council, there are 633 historic monuments as of October 2008[update]. These include:
Public Monuments are all commemorative objects in public places.
The National Monuments Council is trying to create a register in which all public monuments can be listed, using information from the local authorities. As of October 2008[update], there are 150 public monuments on the list. These include
Urban or rural properties that form a unity and are notable by their style, materiality or constructiontechnique are designated as typical or picturesque zones:
With the purpose to hold the environmental nature proper of some towns or places where could exist archaeologic ruins, or ruins and buildings declared Historic Monuments, the National Monuments Council can request to be declared of public interest the protection and preservation of these towns or places, or some zones of them.
— Law N° 17.288 of National Monuments, art. 29, De la Conservación de los Caracteres Ambientales.
In the register of the National Monuments Council, as of October 2008[update], there are 95 typical zones. These include:
Are sanctuaries of nature all of the terrestrial or marine sites that could offer special possibilities for studies and geologic, paleontologic, zoologic, botanic or ecologic investigations, or that have natural formations, which conservation could be of interest for the science or for the State.
— Law N° 17.288 of National Monuments, art. 31, De los Santuarios de la naturaleza e investigaciones científicas.
