Tarapacá

The Tarapacá region is located in the northern area of Chile, and it is part of the Atacama Desert. It is a region that transpires nostalgia for times gone by and wanders of missed opportunities....

It was sparsely populated during the 18th century because of the salt mines’ settlements, but it is now even lesser inhabited after the world’s market interests shifted from salt towards nitrate, leaving the Tarapaca region as it has always been: deserted and calm. The very problematic scarcity of water, combined with the extreme natural conditions, makes this region a very remote place for tourist, yet a very fascinating spot for the ones who dare to enter it. Wonderful oases pop up randomly throughout the whole territory, lamas in green plains framed by snow-peaked mountains are a very common scene, and the traces of colonial history leave more and more space for wild nature, so very rare in today’s overcrowded world.