Salitre

ATACAMA IS
MUCH MORE THAN SAN PEDRO


Come with usand we shall show you part of the rest

Excursions to the littoral, coast cordillera and intermediate valley of the desert of Atacama.
Visit the vestiges of the exploitation of the "white gold" or Nitrate of Chile (19th century to date), the Nitrate Works, the geoglyphs of the caravans of the desert, the Tropic of Capricorn... and much more!.

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Desert

THE CONTRAST OF THE DESERT


Life and death at the Atacama desert

Why the desert of Atacama is catalogued the place most driest of the world, and nevertheless, natural manifestations, like the florid desert are frecuent in Atacama.
In the first place we have to understand why is a desert.

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Astronomy

ALMA Proyect, Atacama Large Milimeter Array, will change San pedro de Atacama in to the scientific knowledge of tthe world

No more than 100 kms. of San Pedro, the most distinguished place of the planet, called Cerro Chajnantor, it works in the construction of the radiotelescope more powerfull of the Earth, will count with 64 anthenas of 12 meters diameter each one.
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Altiplano

ALTITUDE ILLNESS IN THE ANDES


Known by Puna
inChile and Sorojche
in Bolivia

It is called like this to the physical disorder produced by high places of the Cordillera de Los Andes.This illness affect the head and the stomach of the person , and have as a result, strong pain at your head, nausea and vomit.
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Prehispanic Art

Petroglyphs and Pictographs in the Altos del Loa

The Petroglyphs art is one the most universals and antique way of plastic expression of the humanity. It can be found at a lot of places of this planet, specially where old cultures have been developed, that is why some authors and studies called this the primal language.
Without doubt, one of the most fascinating places of the caravan routes, are the Altos del Loa.

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Cautions !

Don´t go out off
the routes

Don´t play with your life.
Some touritstic routes in this bounding region has antipersonal mines. For you safety don´t adventure your self out off the routes.

Bolivia-Chile

In the past as today, the exchange or barter affects not only manufactured products, but in its time, cultural codes were exchanged. When political frontiers didn't exist, to be able to exchange...
Jenny Cárdenas Pérez.

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Vulcanologia

Lascar strength force
(23.32 S - 67.44 W)

Beside the Atacama Salt Flat, 65 kms. south east from San Pedro de Atacama is located the terrible Lascar of 5450 meter over the sea level. Is maybe the most active volcano of our country. Twenty eruptions in the last 150 years are the valid proof of the great pyrotechnics of the blue monster
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Report

white and huge

A place where the compass stop working changing the north for lands of sun and magnesium...

Texts and photografies by Enrike Verdugo U.K

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