Abstract

This contribution presents a short historic review of meteorites and impact craters found in Chile, and how they were recently proposed to be protected as geological heritage, helping to introduce for the first time the concepts of geo- heritage and geodiversity to a political level in the country. It includes a table with the percentages of the different types of meteorites found in Chile, for a total number of 1064 official meteorites declared to the Meteoritical Bulletin until July 2017.