Chile is home to the world-renowned Patagonian Trail that resides on the border between Argentina and Chile. Chile recently launched a massive scenic route for tourism in hopes of encouraging development based on conservation.OverviewChile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the and. There are various theories about the origin of the word Chile. According to 17th-century Spanish chronicler, the called the valley of the Chili by corruption of the name of a. Stone tool evidence indicates humans sporadically frequented the valley area as long as 18,500 years ago. About 10,000 years ago, migrating settled in fertile valleys and coasta.