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The Best Attractions In Antofagasta

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Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about 1,100 kilometres north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669.Previously part of Bolivia, Antofagasta was captured by Chile in the War of the Pacific , and sovereignty was transferred under the terms of the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two countries. The city of Antofagasta is closely linked to mining activity, being a major mining area of the country. The last decade has seen a steady growth in the areas of construction, retail, hotel accommodations, population growth, and rem...
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  • 1. La Portada Antofagasta
    La Portada is a natural arch on the coast of Chile, 18 km north of Antofagasta. It is one of fifteen natural monuments included among the protected areas of Chile. There is another similar but smaller structure in the spa town of Pucatrihue, Osorno Province.
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  • 2. Desierto de Atacama Antofagasta
    Desierto de Atacama Airport is an airport serving the region around Copiapó, the capital of the Atacama Region of Chile. The airport is in the desert north of the Copiapó River, 16 kilometres inland from the Pacific coast. The Atacama VOR-DME is located 0.5 nautical miles off the approach threshold of Runway 35.
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  • 8. European Southern Observatory Paranal Antofagasta
    The European Southern Observatory , formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is a 16-nation intergovernmental research organization for ground-based astronomy. Created in 1962, ESO has provided astronomers with state-of-the-art research facilities and access to the southern sky. The organisation employs about 730 staff members and receives annual member state contributions of approximately €162 million. Its observatories are located in northern Chile. ESO has built and operated some of the largest and most technologically advanced telescopes. These include the 3.6 m New Technology Telescope, an early pioneer in the use of active optics, and the Very Large Telescope , which consists of four individual 8.2 m telescopes and four smaller auxili...
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  • 11. Chacabuco Antofagasta
    Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or saltpeter towns in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works. Unlike most of the other ghost towns in the Atacama Desert, Chacabuco became a concentration camp during the Pinochet regime in 1973. To this day, it remains surrounded by approximately 98 lost landmines, left by the Chilean military when Chacabuco was used as a prison camp.
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  • 12. Laguna Tuyajto Antofagasta
    Tuyajto Lake is a salt lake located in the Altiplano of the Antofagasta Region, northern Chile.
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  • 15. Lasana Pukara Antofagasta
    Lasana is a small village located 40 km northeast of the city of Calama in the Calama province of Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. It sits along the banks of the Loa River. Pukará de Lasana, , a pre-Columbian fortress built in the 12th century, is the main architectural attraction of the village. It is located 8 km north of San Francisco de Chiu Chiu and was declared a national monument in 1982.Petroglyphs can also be found in the area.
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