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Atacama Region

The Atacama Region (Spanish: Región de Atacama, Spanish: [ataˈkama]) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces: Chañaral, Copiapó and Huasco. It is bordered to the north by Antofagasta, to the south by Coquimbo, to east with Provinces of Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan of Argentina, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. The regional capital Copiapó is located at north of the country's capital of Santiago. The region occupies the southern portion of…

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Pan De Azucar
Pan De Azucar
Pan de Azúcar National Park is a national park of Chile. The park straddles the border between the Antofagasta Region and the Atacama Region. Its name, Parque Nacional Pan de Azúcar, means "sugar loaf national park". Geography The park is located 30 km north of Chañaral and 180 km north of Copiapó. It was founded in 1985 and has an extension of 437.54 km² (including 1.1 km² of insular terrain). It is importance derives from the relative diversity of species. Isla Pan de Azúcar Isla Pan de Azúcar…
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Chañaral Island
Chañaral Island
Agua Dulce
Isla Chañaral (sometimes referred to as Isla Chanaral or Chanaral Island) is located 6 km off-shore from the northern Central Chilean coast, some 100 km north of the city of La Serena. Together with Isla Choros and Isla Damas, the island forms the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve, which is administered by the Chilean Forestry Corporation. All three islands support populations of Humboldt penguins, but are also habitat for several other rare and endangered animal species such as the Peruvian div…
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Las Campanas Observatory
Las Campanas Observatory
Rincón
Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS). It is in the southern Atacama Desert of Chile in the Atacama Region approximately northeast of the city of La Serena. The LCO telescopes and other facilities are near the north end of a long mountain ridge. Cerro Las Campanas, near the southern end and over high, is the future home of the Giant Magellan Telescope. LCO was established in 1969 and is the primary observ…
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Sorting Gear
Sorting Gear
University of Atacama (Spanish: Universidad de Atacama) or UDA is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. UDA is in Copiapó, in the Third Region, Atacama. The university was created in 1981, as a fusion of the old Mines School of Copiapo, founded in 1857 and very prestigious in the minerals industries. This school was integrated in 1947 in early founded Universidad Técnica del Estado, being the new U.T.E. until 1981 the most important Chilean university in appl…
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Ministro hablando
Ministro hablando
The San José Mine (Spanish: Mina San José) is a small copper-gold mine located near Copiapó, Atacama Region, Chile. The mine became known internationally for its collapse in 2010, which trapped 33 miners underground. Its workings are reached by a long sloping roadway with many spiral turns (a diagram shows ten turns), not by a vertical mineshaft. History The San José Mine is located 45 kilometers northwest of Copiapó. The mine began operations in 1889. In 1957, Jorge Kemeny Letay, a Hungarian i…
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El Salvador
El Salvador
Estadio El Cobre is a multi-use stadium in El Salvador, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Cobresal. The stadium holds 12,000 people, which is more than the population of the town it is in, and was built in 1980.
wikipedia/Estadio_El_Cobre_de_El_Salvador
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Clay
Clay
The Magellan Telescopes are a pair of optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The two telescopes are named after the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon T. Clay. First light for the telescopes was on September 15, 2000 for the Baade, and September 7, 2002 for the Clay. A consortium consisting of the Carnegie Institution for Science, University of Arizona, Harvard University, the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built…
wikipedia/Magellan_Telescopes
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Departure in the desert, Sky Airline
Departure in the desert,…
Ricardo García Posada Airport , formerly El Salvador Bajo Airport, is an airport serving the copper mining community of El Salvador, in the Atacama Region of Chile. The airport is in the desert southwest of El Salvador. The runway slopes upward to the east. External links • El Salvador at OpenStreetMap • El Salvador at OurAirports • El Salvador Airport at FallingRain
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CopiapoLluvia
CopiapoLluvia
Estadio Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla is a multi-use stadium in Copiapó, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Club de Deportes Copiapó of the Chilean Primera División B. It also hosted Regional Atacama of the Chilean Primera División. The stadium has a capacity of 8,000 spectators. External links • Stadium information (-27°23' -70°19')
wikipedia/Estadio_Luis_Valenzuela_Hermosilla
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Two Domes
Two Domes
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) is a Polish astronomical project based at the University of Warsaw that runs a long-term variability sky survey (1992–present). The main goals are the detection and classification of variable stars (pulsating and eclipsing), discovery of microlensing events, dwarf novae, and studies of the structure of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Since the project began in 1992, it has discovered a multitude of extrasolar planets, together with the fi…
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Fortuna, Raquel & Santa Catalina
Fortuna, Raquel & Santa …
The Battle of Caldera Bay, or the Sinking of Blanco Encalada, was a naval engagement fought in the Caldera Bay during the 1891 Chilean Civil War between Balmacedist and Congressional naval forces on 23 April 1891. It involved two Balmacedist torpedo boats of the , and the Congressional armored frigate . After both torpedoes from had missed, Blanco Encalada was hit by a torpedo from and sank in minutes, with the loss of 182 men. The loss of Blanco Encalada hindered the Congressional forces, but…
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El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador mine (The Savior) is a combined open pit and underground copper mine located in Chile and owned by the state owned copper mining company Codelco. The mine is located in the company town of El Salvador. The mine was originally built by The Anaconda Company in the late 1950s, but in 1971, with the nationalization of the copper industry in Chile, full ownership of the mine was turned over to the newly formed, state owned copper mining company Codelco. Codelco had planned to close the El…
wikipedia/El_Salvador_mine
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Santiago del Nuevo Extremo en Copiapo
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Chañaral8
Chañaral8
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Liceo Tecnologico
Liceo Tecnologico
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Sulfuric Acid Truck
Sulfuric Acid Truck
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PARO REGIONAL INDEFINIDO TRABAJADORES PUBLICOS DE ATACAMA
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PARO REGIONAL INDEFINIDO TRABAJADORES PUBLICOS DE ATACAMA
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Candelaria 2016
Candelaria 2016
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Good Fish
Good Fish
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Reunión con agricultores y regantes de la zona de Alto del Carmen
Reunión con agricultores…
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A Vicuña
A Vicuña
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