The area without power stretched all the way from Arica in the long, narrow South American country’s north to Los Lagos in the south, according to the Senapred disaster response agency -- an area that is home to over 90 percent of Chile’s population of 20 million people.
The metro company, which transports 2.3 million passengers every day, said workers were deployed to all stations “to support safe evacuations.”
With traffic lights out of service, causing major transport gridlock, some residents of the capital had to walk for hours under a hot sun to reach their homes.
“They let us leave work because of the power cut, but now I don’t know how we will get home because all the buses are full,“ worker Maria Angelica Roman, 45, told AFP in Santiago.
President Gabriel Boric overflew the capital by helicopter to assess the situation.
Local media also reported people trapped in elevators.
Chile boasts one of the best power networks in South America, and has not had a blackout this big in about 15 years.
That outage happened a month after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 500 people and rocked the national power grid.
It was more likely “a failure in the system’s operation,“ she told reporters, adding the grid should be back online “in the coming hours.”
The country’s hospital system and prisons were operating on emergency generators.
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