El Quisco

[[File:Casa Marta Ibañez.JPG|thumb|right|Ancient house of [[Isidoro Dubournais]], now Lucia D’Ardaillon’s.]]

[[File:Casa Marta Ibañez.JPG|thumb|right|Ancient house of [[Isidoro Dubournais]], now Lucia D’Ardaillon’s.]]

”’El Quisco”’ is a [[Chile]]an city and commune in [[San Antonio Province]], [[Valparaíso Region]]. Located in the country’s central coast, it serves as a popular summer resort for the population of [[Santiago]] and forms part of the [[Coast of Poets]], a cultural space named after four world-renowned Chilean poets: [[Pablo Neruda]], [[Vicente Huidobro]], [[Violeta Parra]] and [[Nicanor Parra]]. El Quisco is home to [[Casa de Isla Negra|La Casa de Isla Negra]], the former house of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, which is now a museum and Neruda’s burial site. The city’s name comes from the [[Echinopsis chiloensis|quisco cactus]] (”Echinopsis chiloensis”), which in turn comes from the [[Quechuan languages|Quechua]] word ”khishka”, a plant species belonging to the cactus family.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-08-16|title=Echinopsis chiloensis – QUISCO|url=http://www.florachilena.cl/Niv_tax/Angiospermas/Ordenes/Caryophyllales/Cactaceae/Echinopsis%20chiloensis/Echinopsis%20chiloensis.htm|access-date=2021-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816061039/http://www.florachilena.cl/Niv_tax/Angiospermas/Ordenes/Caryophyllales/Cactaceae/Echinopsis%20chiloensis/Echinopsis%20chiloensis.htm|archive-date=2012-08-16}}</ref>

”’El Quisco”’ is a [[Chile]]an city and commune in [[San Antonio Province]], [[Valparaíso Region]]. Located in the country’s central coast, it serves as a popular summer resort for the population of [[Santiago]] and forms part of the [[Coast of Poets]], a cultural space named after four world-renowned Chilean poets: [[Pablo Neruda]], [[Vicente Huidobro]], [[Violeta Parra]] and [[Nicanor Parra]]. El Quisco is home to [[Casa de Isla Negra|La Casa de Isla Negra]], the former house of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, which is now a museum and Neruda’s burial site.

==Etymology==

The word “quisco” refers to the [[Echinopsis chiloensis]], a species of cactus native to the central coast of Chile. It is derived from the [[Quechuan languages|Quechua]] word ”khishka”, meaning “[[Thorns, spines, and prickles|spine]].”<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-08-16|title=Echinopsis chiloensis – QUISCO|url=http://www.florachilena.cl/Niv_tax/Angiospermas/Ordenes/Caryophyllales/Cactaceae/Echinopsis%20chiloensis/Echinopsis%20chiloensis.htm|access-date=2021-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816061039/http://www.florachilena.cl/Niv_tax/Angiospermas/Ordenes/Caryophyllales/Cactaceae/Echinopsis%20chiloensis/Echinopsis%20chiloensis.htm|archive-date=2012-08-16}}</ref>

==History==

==History==