The border mountains between Chile and Argentina are in the distance.

The dryest place on earth.

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March 23rd 2011
In Northern Chile, after crossing beautiful Bolivia (see last post) MissionVanGo rambled across the driest place on earth which is the Atacama Desert. There is so little rainfall (some weather stations there have not recoded a single drop of rain for decades) that much of the desert is completely sterile. Even the cluster of border crossing station buildings looked like a ghost town and I had to w ... read more

South America » Chile » Atacama

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more