Santa Laura nitrate oficina

Hot in the day, Chile at night...

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May 23rd 2006
Although we are now in Arequipa in Peru, this entry is mostly gonna be about Iquique and Arica in the of Chile, seeing as how things happen faster than blog entries make em possible to describe. After Copiapo we arrived in Iquique early in the morning with butt cheeks numb after an 11 hour journey. At first sight it looked promising, a large city spread out over a narrow strip of flat land in ... read more

South America » Chile

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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