A record drought in Central Chile produce what remains the driest year in Santiago (66.1 millimetres or 2.60 inches) and Valparaíso (58 millimetres or 2.28 inches),[1] as well as the driest until 1996 in Concepción with 671.9 millimetres or 26.45 inches.
^Paskoff, Roland P.; ‘Geomorphological Processes and Characteristic Landforms in the Mediterranean Regions of the World’; Mediterranean Type Ecosystems; in Ecological Studies, Volume 7, 1973, pp 53–60