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Wilderness Alto Biobío
"The young Biobío runs beneath araucaria heights through living Pewenche high country."
City Arica
"One of humanity's earliest mummification traditions rests beneath Arica's beaches and headland."
Water Bahía Exploradores
"Braided rivers run out at a bay where boats face the San Rafael icefield's edge."
Water Buchupureo
"A rural coast, small guesthouses and a clean point break reward staying past sunset."
Water Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn)
"A lighthouse and albatross memorial face one of navigation's most storied headlands."
Water Caleta Tortel
"Cypress boardwalks lace a hillside village above a pale glacial river mouth."
Wilderness Carretera Austral
"Ferries and gravel carry Route 7 through more than 1,200 kilometres of green Patagonia."
City Castro
"Palafitos stand over the tide while a timber church brightens Chiloé's harbour town."
Mountain Cerro Castillo National Park
"Black spires cut above turquoise lagoons in the exposed heart of Aysén."
Wilderness Chaitén
"A rebuilt Patagonian town faces the volcano that buried its old routines in 2008."
Water Chañaral de Aceituno
"Local boats enter the Humboldt Current in search of whales, dolphins and seabirds."
Water Chile Chico
"Orchards and bright glacial water open onto Patagonia's Jeinimeni country."
Water Chiloé Island
"Palafitos, timber churches and ferries unfold through an archipelago softened by rain."
City Chiloé's Wooden Churches (UNESCO Circuit)
"Sixteen timber churches turn Chiloé's islands into a road-and-ferry pilgrimage."
Wilderness Chuquicamata
"A silent company town faces a copper pit carved kilometres wide and deep."
Wilderness Cochamó Valley
"Granite walls rise from temperate forest beyond the long trail to La Junta."
Mountain Codpa Valley
"Pintatani vines green a desert canyon celebrated by Codpa's public harvest festival."
Mountain El Tatio Geysers
"Steam columns rise into freezing dawn air at 4,300 metres in the Andes."
Mountain Elqui Valley
"Pisco vines and observatory domes share a clear-skied Andean valley."
Water Futaleufú
"Turquoise water folds into white rapids beneath forested Patagonian mountains."
Wilderness Geoglifos de Pintados
"Hundreds of ancient figures spread across a desert hillside beside a marked trail."
Water Glaciar Jorge Montt
"A long Patagonian navigation approaches a tidewater glacier at the icefield's northern edge."
Wilderness Hacienda Los Lingues
"Red earth, old rooms and Chilean horses shape a living Colchagua estate."
Wilderness Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve
"Waterfalls and storybook lodges emerge from a privately protected temperate forest."
Wilderness Humberstone and Santa Laura
"A desert nitrate town keeps its theatre, machinery and workers' streets beneath the sun."
City Iquique
"Pacific beaches, nitrate history and desert paragliding give Iquique three horizons."
City Isla Chiloé (Tenaún)
"Three timber towers rise above a quiet Chilote waterfront."
Water Isla Damas (Reserva Nacional Pingüino de Humboldt)
"A small boat crosses cold desert water towards protected island habitat."
Water Isla Magdalena
"A marked island path threads through a seasonal Magellanic penguin colony."
Water Isla Mocha
"Forest trails and fishing settlements share an island shaped by the Mocha Dick story."
Mountain Isla Navarino
"Jagged teeth, peatland and Beagle Channel light shape Chile's southern trekking island."
Water Isla Negra
"Neruda's house of collections faces a Pacific coast of black rock and white water."
Water Lago Budi
"A shallow coastal lake spreads through living Lafkenche country behind the Pacific dunes."
Water Lago Chungará
"Payachata volcanoes rise twice, once in the Andes and again in a high blue lake."
Water Laguna Cejar
"Salt paths cross an Atacama wetland where one controlled lagoon allows floating."
Mountain Laguna del Maule
"Cobalt water fills a restless Andean volcanic complex monitored around the clock."
Water Laguna San Rafael
"A long fjord journey reaches floating ice beneath a retreating Patagonian glacier."
Water Marble Caves
"Blue lake light moves through wave-cut chambers of veined Patagonian marble."
Wilderness Mina San José
"The story of thirty-three rescued miners is told where the Atacama held them underground."
Wilderness Observatorio Paranal
"Four silver domes crown a levelled mountain summit in the driest desert on Earth."
Water Paposo
"Sea fog feeds an improbable garden of endemic plants on the Atacama coast."
Water Parque Nacional Alberto de Agostini
"Expedition boats navigate glaciers and black fjords beneath the Cordillera Darwin."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Alerce Andino
"Rain-dark paths enter old alerce forest within reach of Puerto Montt."
Water Parque Nacional Bernardo O'Higgins
"Boats enter a roadless maze of fjords, rain and Patagonian ice."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Conguillío
"Araucaria crowns stand over black lava and clear lakes beneath Volcán Llaima."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Huerquehue
"Jade lakes appear one after another along trails beneath ancient araucaria crowns."
City Parque Nacional Lauca (Parinacota Village)
"A white Andean church sits beneath volcanoes in Lauca's immense high-altitude light."
Water Parque Nacional Pan de Azúcar
"Cactus-covered desert slopes fall straight into cold Humboldt Current coves."
Mountain Parque Nacional Puyehue (Caulle Volcanic Range)
"Rainforest, thermal water and volcanic ground meet in Chile's southern lake country."
Water Parque Nacional Radal Siete Tazas
"The Claro River pours through seven basalt bowls before vanishing into forest."
Mountain Parque Nacional Volcán Isluga
"Volcanic horizons and high wetlands surround living Aymara settlements in the altiplano."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Yendegaia
"Fjords and lenga forest valleys climb toward the Cordillera Darwin at Tierra del Fuego's edge."
Wilderness Parque Pumalín Douglas Tompkins
"Ancient temperate forest fills the space between volcanoes and Patagonian fjords."
City Pica
"Citrus orchards and warm spring water flourish inside an Atacama oasis."
Water Pichilemu
"Pacific swell, black sand and long lunches give Chile's surf town an easy rhythm."
Mountain Portillo
"A yellow hotel faces Laguna del Inca high in an Andean pass."
Mountain Pucón
"A lakefront town wakes beneath the monitored, snow-lined cone of Villarrica."
Water Punta de Lobos
"Long Pacific lines bend around a protected headland south of Pichilemu."
Wilderness Queulat National Park
"Twin streams fall from a hanging glacier into rainforest dense with rain."
Water Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
"Moai, grassed craters and a living Polynesian culture meet in the open Pacific."
Wilderness Reserva Costera Valdiviana
"Temperate rainforest reaches thirty-six kilometres of wild Pacific coast near Chaihuín."
Mountain Reserva Nacional Altos de Lircay
"Forest paths climb from Vilches towards high Andean plateaux and open sky."
Wilderness Reserva Nacional Federico Albert (Chanco)
"A planted forest tells how one town stopped the coastal dunes from swallowing its fields."
Wilderness Reserva Nacional Las Chinchillas
"A rare nocturnal chinchilla still lives wild in these semi-arid Coquimbo hills."
Wilderness San Pedro de Atacama
"Adobe lanes lead to salt valleys, high lagoons and a sky crowded with stars."
Mountain Termas de Chillán
"Steam rises off sulphur-warmed pools set high on a live volcanic massif."
Wilderness Termas Geométricas
"Red walkways vanish through steam between stone pools and giant ferns."
Mountain Torres del Paine
"Granite towers tear free of cloud above milk-blue lakes and restless Patagonian grass."
City Valdivia
"River boats, a produce market and brewing culture animate this rain-green southern city."
Wilderness Valle de la Luna
"Copper light skims salt ridges and sculpted clay at the edge of the Atacama."
City Valparaíso
"Rattling hillside lifts climb between painted houses above a working Pacific port."
City Villa O'Higgins
"Route 7 ends where ferries and trails continue into lakes and Patagonian ice."
Mountain Volcán Lonquimay (Cráter Navidad)
"A crater born on Christmas Day scars the flank of snow-striped Lonquimay."
Mountain Volcán Villarrica
"Villarrica's monitored cone rises above Pucón, snow-bright and visibly alive."
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For part of the year, the island's human voices fall silent.
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The desert keeps its colours underground, waiting for rain.
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Follow a miner below ground. The Pacific will be overhead.
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Fire has built a summit high enough to wear ice.
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A castaway's refuge, with a forest found nowhere else.
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A town climbed a mountain and left the streets as stairs.
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Climb to the volcano's rim. Its bowl is full of ice.
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