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Its main character is an anthropomorphic condor living in a fictitious town named Pelotillehue — a setting typical of many small Chilean provincial towns. '''Condorito''' is meant to be a representation of the typical low-class Chilean people, aka poor, a bit of irresponsible and always ready to party around, but also kind, friendly, ingenious and loyal to his friends and loved ones.
The comic debuted in 1949 in the first issue of "Okey" magazine in the form of one-page stories. In 1955, a recompilation of Condorito's adventures was published as an independent comic book. From that moment on, Condorito had gained his own comic book, which is still published on a bi-weekly basis. Some of the ''Condorito'' comics have been republished for [https://web.archive.org/web/20140113092842/http://www.nuspel.org/spanish01.html students of Spanish as a second language].
During the 1980s, the comic was so popular that it got its own [[Animated Adaptation]], a growing set of derivative products and even a [[Newspaper Comics|comic strip adaptation]] for American newspapers.
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