SANTIAGO –Tourists in central Chile hoping to experience a total solar eclipse saw day turn to night shortly after noon on Monday, though fog and rain clouds obscured the sky across much of the region disappointing some sightseers.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, plunging the area where this happens into darkness. It happens only rarely in any given spot across the globe.
More than 100,000 tourists traveled to the popular lakeside villages of Pucon and Villarica, as well as to several beach communities along the central Pacific coast to view the eclipse, braving a recent uptick in cases of COVID-19 in Chile, according to official repo…
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