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ATACAMA - VALLE DE LA MUERTE

November 25th 2013
Our excursion into the desert took us to the Cordillera de la Sal, and our first stop was in El Valle de la Muerte. Our guide, Mariano, explained that the name, Death Valley, originated as a misunderstanding. A Belgium priest said that the placed looked like Marte (Mars), and the native indians, who were not familiar with Spanich, thought he said that the placed looked like Muerte (death). Voila! ... read more
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Chilean Flag 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
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