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Accounting changes (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Disclosure Of Accounting Changes [Abstract] |
Disclosure And detailed Information About Hyper Inflationary Assets [Text Block] | The most significant effects on the non-monetary items restated, after rating the Argentine economy in a situation of hyperinflation are the following:
|  | ThCh$ |
Current assets |  |  | 1,905,102 |
Non-current assets |  |  | 118,989,487 |
Current liabilities |  |  | - |
Non-current liabilities |  |  | (27,149,456 | )
Total Shareholders' Equity |  |  | 93,745,133 |
Non-controlling interests |  |  | (1,504,129 | )
Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent |  |  | 92,241,004 |

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