Definitions for valparaiso the chief port and second largest
city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile A major
port city of Chile. A place name. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (Vale
of Paradise) (150), the second city and chief port in Chile,
over 100 m. NW. of Santiago, at the head of a bay which looks
N., and where the anchorage is dangerous; is quite a commercial
city; exports ores, nitre, wheat, hides, &c., the business
affairs of which are largely in the hands of foreigners, chiefly
English, American, and Germans; it has been on various occasions
visited by severe earthquakes; was bombarded by a Spanish fleet
in 1866 and suffered in the Civil War of 1891.