Valparaiso eSIM
In Valparaiso you connect to Entel or Movistar, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The median across the country is 52 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Entel and Movistar
- Real speed in Chile
- 52 Mbps median, 13 Mbps for the slowest tenth642 travellers across Chile, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Valparaiso
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $9.89 | $9.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $6.30 | $18.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $5.38 | $26.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $4.39 | $43.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $3.79 | $75.89 |
How Chile compares across South America
- Speed rank
- 1 of 10 destinations we sell in South America
- Regional median
- 34.5 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 25 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Entel, Movistar
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next slowest nearby
- Brazil, 49 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Santiago, Valparaiso, Atacama
- tenth percentile
- 13 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 642 travellers, rolling 90 days
Landing at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport (Santiago) - the nearest airport serving Valparaiso, about 120 km away (SCL)
- Airport
- SCL / SCEL
Getting into Valparaiso
- Intercity bus from Santiago (Alameda or Pajaritos terminals) to Valparaiso (SCL), about 120 minutes
- Route 68 drive from Santiago to Valparaiso (tolled) (SCL), about 90 minutes
- Tren Limache-Puerto (Merval) commuter rail, Puerto (Valparaiso) to Limache via Vina del Mar. Runs through tunnels, where a signal drops
Worth knowing about Valparaiso
- Valparaiso has no commercial airport of its own: you land at Santiago (SCL), 120 km away, then take about 1 hour 30 minutes by car on Route 68 or almost 2 hours by bus from the Alameda or Pajaritos terminals.
- The local "Metro" is not a metro: the Limache-Puerto line (Merval) is a single 43 km commuter railway with 20 stations linking five cities, and it includes a 5 km underground stretch from Miramar through Chorrillos in Vina del Mar.
- Moving between the port and the hills means funiculars: 16 ascensores survive, 15 of them public and designated national monuments, and the World Monuments Fund listed the system among the world's 100 most endangered historical treasures in 1996.
- Chile made prepaid mobile registration mandatory from 20 August 2026: every prepaid line must be tied to a named holder, with operators recording name, address and national ID or passport number, so buying a local prepaid SIM now involves identity verification.