Argentina/Chile weird question

OK, I wonder and do not know who to ask.

While spending a boring evening (nothing on TV because of the holidays?) I got the thought that as much as I hate winter I really enjoy Indiana summers. So I looked up the latitude and longitude north then looked to the same south figuring the winter there might make a good vacation spot. Looking at google earth I found hundreds of miles of beaches on both sides of south america. Strange thing is there are no towns or signs of people down there.

The question is........why? Beach front is so valuable in the north why not in the south?

I can't answer for goggle earth but Argentina's biggest beach resort area, Mar del Plata, is a city of some 550,000 people.

I think maybe it's because South American men tend to wear Speedos at the beach, therefore no one else wants to go there.

I'm blind!

Distance. It's too long a trip for most Americans to go for a long weekend. Same for Europeans. Most S.A.s are too poor to vacation like rock stars.

I am confused more about no one living there than no one vacationing there. I sent e-mails to embassies of both countries, no reply yet.

See the Upper California Coast, Oregon Coasts, and Washington Coasts and you'll have your answer.

The water off those shores is very cold - even in their Summer Months. The climate is not like Florida or the Bahamas with tropical waters and tropical sun....its more like Seattle.

I don't know how similar the climates of Chile/Agentina are to Ecuador,but the weather in the southern part of Ecuador is warm all year round.I remember being in Ecuador for christmas of 2006 and we went to the beach,I believe the town was Salinas,and we were swimming in the Pacific ocean on xmas day.

Ecuador staddles the equator. In fact, Ecuador is the spanish word for equator.
Southern Chile borders Antartica. Its akin to comparing South Beach to Maine.
You also seem to forget that December is Summer in S.A. The cold season is in July and August.

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