Why Ushuaia will cease to be the southernmost city of the world

Located further south, after a census conducted by Chile's National Institute of Statistics (INE), the city of more than 5000 inhabitants, will become a city. According to a resolution, according to the European Convention on Cities, will cities have between 5,000 and 10,000 inhabitants?

Ushuaia, with its 80,000 inhabitants, will lose the nominal privilege, although it will still continue to have its charm.

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For their part, in Chile, they celebrated the news. The director of the local tourist chamber, José Soto, in dialogue with the newspaper El Mercurio, declared that "we will position ourselves henceforth with this formidable title which seemed distant and inaccessible".

For its part, the mayor of Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctic, José Fernández, He expressed his satisfaction at the change of category of the city because "it will bring countless benefits to its inhabitants".