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By
Dragutin Dimitrijevic Apis
Feb 10, 2005, 17:23 |
Colchane
Village located to 275 km from Putre and to 3.730 m of altitude, which does the times of municipality, administrative center and frontier step. Of recent creation, it is composed only by a street extended in the middle of a plain shaken by the winds of the evening. It possesses carabineers, radio, stores, pensions, electrical light and a frontier complex (open sea from 8 to 20 h; free), up to where there come the vans that Bolivian passengers bring to Iquique. Between the bordering control panel of Chile and Bolivia a frontier Fair is realized every Saturday morning, every two weeks
Matilla
He is to 60 km from Poso Almonte and to 1.160 m of altitude. It is an ancient and prosperous oasis, which settlement dates of 1760, year in which out-standing families of Pike established themselves here. His principal product was the wine elaborated from the important cultures of the gorge of Quisma. Nevertheless, from 1912, the deviation of the water from the gorge towards Iquique has sharpened the scarcity of liquid in the settlement and the local cultures. The buildings of interest of Matilla have been moderated, principally thanks to the effort of the neighbors.
Mamiña
He is to 71 km from Poso Almonte, the Ist Region. It has 429 inhabitants and an altitude of 2.750 m. Built on a craggy rock, a gorge surrounds it where there is water. In his hillsides it has patios staggered of stone, which are ancient godforsaken melgas of culture. His houses were constructed by stone and roofs of straw and mud; someone of them present carved portals. The streets are cobbled. They emphasize the small square and the beautiful church San Marcos. This people has pre-Hispanic origin; it was Pukará and administrative Inca centered. According to the tradition, one of his thermal sources Inca treated to a princess. In the epoch of the saltpeter it was frequented as place of rest. Then the ancient thermal hotel was constructed, up to today in functions. The slope called The Tambo, of waters rich in sodium and potassium, supplies to the hotels and to the rest of the people of thermal waters. The Baths of Ipla have a hut with four public tubs of sulphurous water, to 42°C. Also the simple Chinese Muds are Spring, where you will have opportunity to smear yourself with thermal mud, rich in sulfur and iodin, to allow it to dry to the Sun on the body and then to extract it in the swimming pool or in showers. To the late afternoon it is usual for wind to be. The best hour for the bath of mud is spent the one of the evening
Camiña
It is located about 77 km from Well Almonte; it has 419 inhabitants and an altitude of 2.400 m. Current municipality, this settlement has pre-Hispanic origin. In him there lives an important aboriginal population who reaches 1.420 persons in the gorge. During the Cologne it was an administrative head office of Repartimiento de Camiña, which included the vale of Tana and Sotoca up to the border with Isluga. This one was delivered in package, but it was never constituted in important Spanish seat. His chapel, it activates from 1613, it was one of four parishes of Corregimiento de Tarapacá, salesman on the Episcopate of Arequipa. His church, close to the square, has a portal of the XVIIIth century. In Camiña the constructions are of adobe. A municipal equipped and shaded camping exists. A pension offers rich sweetcorns with butter, casseroles and piquant of rabbit or bird. East is probably the most beautiful oasis. For his ways in the hills you will appreciate sandy hillocks that go down towards the green and cultivated bed of the gorge
Pisagua
He is in the outskirts of Iquique, the Ist Region. Today it has 166 inhabitants, but in his moment it became the third sulfur port more importantly. Placed in a narrow coastal platform, it has scarcely two parallel streets. On his coastal wall it centered on the shipment of the nitrate. His houses of wood, typical of the golden epoch of the saltpeter, have worked balconies .
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