The Atacama Salt Flats
In northern Chile, a short drive south from the local capital of San Pedro, you'll find one of the world’s most alluring treasures: the huge Atacama Salt...
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In northern Chile, a short drive south from the local capital of San Pedro, you'll find one of the world’s most alluring treasures: the huge Atacama Salt Flats. One of the driest areas in the world — so dry it hardly sees more than 1 mm of rainfall in an entire year — it’s also one of the most conflicted, due its history and unforgiving environment.
The Andes mountains borders it on the east while to the west lies a secondary mountain range, Cordillera de Domeyko, with volcanoes. The salt flats were the site (and much of the cause) of the War of the Pacific, also called the Saltpeter War. During this time,
obtained most of the valuable mineral-rich territory desired by Bolivia and Peru, which went on to shape much of Bolivia’s economic identity and wedged Chile between the borders of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
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The Andes mountains borders it on the east while to the west lies a secondary mountain range, Cordillera de Domeyko, with volcanoes. The salt flats were the site (and much of the cause) of the War of the Pacific, also called the Saltpeter War. During this time,
obtained most of the valuable mineral-rich territory desired by Bolivia and Peru, which went on to shape much of Bolivia’s economic identity and wedged Chile between the borders of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
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