The eerie ghost town in the world's 'driest' desert abandoned for 60 years

John Varga - Express - 22/03
The town became one of the centres for saltpetre mining in Chile.

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.

Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km². This increases to 128,000 km² if the barren lower ...
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