Poet and writer, born in Parral, Chile, on July 12, 1904. He died in Santiago, Chile on September 23, 1973. His name until 1946 was Ricardo Eliezer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, which was legally changed to Pablo Neruda.

In October 1971, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Chilean to receive this award.

Puerto Saavedra, a port town bathed by the waves of the Pacific Ocean, was one of Neruda's preferred locations to spend vacations with his family. Neruda confessed in "I Confess that I have lived" that Puerto Saavedra was where María Parodi inspired him to write Poem 19 of "20 love poems and one desperate long song"".