DISCOVER CHILE: Destinations & Attractions

The Moai of Easter Island Moai are statues carved of compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues are all monolithic, that is, carved in one piece. They may weigh more than 20 tons and be more than 20 feet tall. One unfinished sculpture has been found that would have been 69 feet tall and would have weighed about 270 tons ...

Discover ANTOFAGASTA Founded between 1866 and 1874 as a seaport for the recently discovered silver mines nearby, Antofagasta's original name was Penas Blancas (Spanish for White Boulders). It was part of the Litoral Province of Bolivia until 1879, when it was occupied by Chilean troops marking the beginning of the War of the Pacific ...

Discover the ATACAMA DESERT The Atacama desert of Chile and Peru is a virtually rainless plateau made up of salt basins (salares), sand, and lava flows, extending from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The average width is less than 160 kilometers but it extends from the Peruvian border 1000 kilometers south to the Bolivian Altiplano ...

Discover IQUIQUE Although Iquique was founded in the sixteenth century, there is evidence of habitation in the area by the Chango people as early as 7000 BC. During colonial times, Iquique was part of the Viceroyalty of Peru as much of South America was at the time ...

Torres del Paine The three Towers of Paine (Spanish: Torres del Paine) in southern Chile are gigantic granite monoliths shaped by the forces of glacial ice. They are located in Patagonia, 400 km (244 miles) north of Punta Arenas, and about 2,500 km south of the capital Santiago. The Central Tower of Paine is the highest ...

Chile Posters and Art Prints AllPosters.com has an incredible variety of high quality prints and posters to choose from for Chile. Choose from a variety of styles and sizes, with options for plain, mounted or framed prints. Play with virtually limitless framing options and see the results updated as you go. You can even sen any of the images as an e-postcard ...

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