Chinchorro culture
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The Chinchorro culture of South America was a preceramic culture that lasted from 9,100 to 3,500 years BP. The people forming the Chinchorro culture were sedentary fishermen inhabiting the Pacific coa
Landscape of Arica, Chile
Chinchorro funeral rites of the later period (1000-500 BC)
Artistic representation
Chinchorro mummies of the type site in Arica, Chile
Atacama Desert
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The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau on the Pacific coast of South America, stretching along a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land in northern Chile, west of the Andes. It covers an area of 105,000 k
Chinchorro culture
…Spanish: Playa Chinchorro), near Arica, Chile, where the first mummies were discovered. The culture was spread across the arid coastal regions of the Atacama Desert from Ilo, southern Peru, to Antofagasta in northern Chile. But the cultural core of the Chinchorro seems to be the Chilean Arica-Camarones region, which…
Snow in Paranal Observatory at 2,600 masl
A flat area of the Atacama Desert between Antofagasta and Taltal
Feral donkey in the Atacama desert
The lack of humidity, rain, and light pollution together produce a dusty, rocky landscape.