Visit Atacama Desert & Andrew Chaundler During Chile Holidays
A period of its colorful history was the rise of nitrates, which resulted in British ghost towns remain, with Victorian arrogance abandoned parts of the desert where it never rains is one of the best destinations to travel during your Chile holidays.
Nitrates began to be subjugated commercially in 1860, when the Atacama desert belonged to Peru and Bolivia. However, in 1878 a dispute between Chile and Bolivia for export licenses resulted in Chile sent troops to the region to protect their interests. War broke out with Peru, joining on the side of Bolivia. The outcome of the war the year after five years was that Chile was in possession of the Atacama nitrate.
Nitrates were in great demand in Europe and North America as the raw material for fertilizer and explosives manufacturing. After the war British companies provided the capital for the Chilean nitrate industry and took control of almost all production of nitrate. During this period of boom towns sprang up around the plants nitrate.
The best preserved of these villages is Humberstone, built in 1862 and named after a later owner,James Humberstone. Located within the city of Iquique, in an area known as Pampa – a plateau between the coastal mountains and the Andes an ideal destination for Chile holidays.Humberstone, as nitrate of other peoples,is a ghost town.
The invention of a method of synthesis for the production of ammonium nitrate killed the booming business as quickly as they emerged. Walking all the way through the deserted streets of Humberstone has the feeling that their inhabitants fled from a major natural adversity. Everything is as it was then only aged by the merciless sun and cold nights. There is a church, a theater, the humble dwellings of the workers, the great houses of the management and processing plant. The only sound is the wind blowing dry Atacama Desert through time from the empty streets tirelessly to return to this relic of Victoria for the desert.
Andrew Chaundler worked and traveled in South America for many years before the creation of Optimundo, a travel company specializing in vacation rentals in Chile and Argentina that have been designed with the expertise of the region.
Otter is a village of fishermen on the coast of Chile, in many respects is very similar to that of many other small communities strung out along thousands of miles of Pacific coast, which depend on small-scale fishing for their survival.
But Chungungo is the site of an ingenious invention, the “catchers” or “cloud recipient”, which has been copied throughout the world as a means to obtain fresh water in areas where there is almost no rain and no water underground. It’s a place you could have visited many times and likes to stop at what they pass through the region of Coquimbo, best known for his unimaginative administrative name of the fourth region. As you travel to the Pan American highway that runs along South America, the fog-catcher is visible at the top of the coastal hills that surround and isolate Chungungo making your Chile travel tours an immortal one.
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