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Wilderness Alto Biobío
"Pewenche families still harvest araucaria pine nuts in a valley that resisted conquest for centuries."
City Arica
"Chile's northernmost city where pre-Inca mummies 2,000 years older than Egypt's lie beneath the streets."
Water Bahía Exploradores
"A road ends where a glacier meets the sea. Walk on ice that touches the Pacific."
Water Buchupureo
"Empty left-hand point breaks on a wild coast where farmers surf between harvests."
Water Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn)
"The albatross monument at the Americas' end, where the Atlantic and Pacific collide in permanent fury."
Wilderness Carretera Austral
"A thousand kilometres of gravel threading glaciers, fjords, and forests with almost no one on it."
City Castro
"Technicolour palafito stilt houses jut over the harbour, a neo-Gothic wooden church crowning the hill."
Mountain Cerro Castillo National Park
"Basalt spires rise like a dark cathedral above turquoise lagoons where almost nobody treks."
Wilderness Chaitén
"A town half-buried by volcanic mud in 2008, rebuilt beside the ghost forest it created."
Water Chañaral de Aceituno
"Fin whales surface beside your boat in waters so nutrient-rich the ocean turns green each spring."
Water Chile Chico
"Cherry orchards bloom in Patagonia's rain shadow, a sun-drenched anomaly on a glacial lake."
Water Chiloé Island
"Wooden churches on stilts above fog-laced fjords where witchcraft mythology still breathes."
City Chiloé's Wooden Churches (UNESCO Circuit)
"Sixteen 18th-century timber churches built without nails, each a different colour, scattered across misty islands."
Wilderness Chuquicamata
"The largest open-pit copper mine on Earth, a terraced crater so vast it swallowed a city."
Mountain El Tatio Geysers
"Steam columns erupt at 4,320 metres in freezing dawn light while vicuñas graze unbothered nearby."
Mountain Elqui Valley
"Pisco distilleries and astronomical observatories share a valley so clear it became a starlight reserve."
Water Futaleufú
"Turquoise whitewater so intense it's been called the world's hardest commercially rafted river."
Water Glaciar Jorge Montt
"A glacier retreating so fast the maps can't keep up, ice calving into a turquoise fjord."
Wilderness Hacienda Los Lingues
"A 400-year-old hacienda where Andalusian horses plough vineyards granted by the Spanish Crown in 1599."
City Iquique
"Paraglide off Atacama cliffs onto a beach in a city where sand dunes invade the streets."
City Isla Chiloé (Tenaún)
"A village of three wooden churches that believes in ghost ships, forest gnomes, and sea serpents."
Water Isla Damas (Reserva Nacional Pingüino de Humboldt)
"Dolphins race your boat past sea lion colonies to a penguin island in warm desert waters."
Water Isla Magdalena
"Magellanic penguins in their tens of thousands, nesting so close you walk through their colony."
Water Isla Negra
"Neruda's wild Pacific refuge where ocean spray salts the windows of his ship-shaped house."
Water Laguna Cejar
"Float weightless in salt-saturated water while flamingos wade and the Andes blaze pink at sunset."
Mountain Laguna del Maule
"Black lava flows frame a volcanic lagoon on the Argentine border, the earth still unsettled beneath."
Water Laguna San Rafael
"A tidewater glacier calves house-sized icebergs into a lagoon reached only by boat through virgin fjords."
Wilderness Mina San José
"Thirty-three men survived 69 days underground here. The rescue capsule still sits where it landed."
Wilderness Observatorio Paranal
"Four silver telescope domes perch on a flattened peak in the driest place on Earth."
Water Paposo
"Fog oasis on desert sea cliffs where endemic plants drink mist because rain almost never falls."
Water Parque Nacional Alberto de Agostini
"Unnamed fjords and calving glaciers in a wilderness so vast the maps show only white."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Alerce Andino
"Three-thousand-year-old alerce trees rise from moss-draped Valdivian rainforest — South America's answer to sequoias."
Water Parque Nacional Bernardo O'Higgins
"Chile's largest park, reachable only by boat, where glaciers calve into fjords no trail has reached."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Conguillío
"Petrified araucaria forests frame an active volcano across a lake of submerged lava."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Huerquehue
"Three jade-green lakes linked by trails through ancient araucaria forest, each pool clearer than the last."
City Parque Nacional Lauca (Parinacota Village)
"A 17th-century Aymara church alone on the altiplano, twin volcanoes framed behind its bell tower."
Water Parque Nacional Pan de Azúcar
"Humboldt penguins waddle beneath cactus forests on a desert coastline where fog is the only moisture."
Mountain Parque Nacional Puyehue (Caulle Volcanic Range)
"Hot rivers cut through ash fields from a 2011 eruption, the landscape rewriting itself in steam."
Water Parque Nacional Radal Siete Tazas
"Seven basalt bowls carved by a river, each turquoise pool spilling into the next."
Mountain Parque Nacional Volcán Isluga
"White-washed Aymara hamlets where colonial churches open only for the dead beneath a perpetually smoking volcano."
Wilderness Parque Nacional Yendegaia
"A national park with no trails and no visitors — just fjords and lenga forest."
Wilderness Parque Pumalín Douglas Tompkins
"A private fortune turned million-acre wilderness of alerce forest, fjords, and volcanoes, gifted to Chile."
City Pica
"Tropical mangoes and limes ripening in a thermal oasis town surrounded by absolute desert."
Water Pichilemu
"Left-hand point breaks roll endlessly into a surf town where horses share the beach with longboarders."
Mountain Portillo
"Yellow hotel wedged into an Andean pass where skiers drop into powder beside an Inca lake."
Mountain Pucón
"An active volcano glows above black sand lakefront where you ski and kayak the same day."
Water Punta de Lobos
"Left-hand point breaks wrap a basalt headland where big-wave surfers ride 8-metre winter swells."
Wilderness Queulat National Park
"A hanging glacier drips twin waterfalls into emerald forest, its ice face cracking in the silence."
Water Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
"Stone giants stare seaward from volcanic cliffs on the most isolated inhabited island on Earth."
Wilderness Reserva Costera Valdiviana
"Valdivian temperate rainforest spills directly onto empty Pacific beaches where rivers meet surf."
Mountain Reserva Nacional Altos de Lircay
"Condors circle lenga forests that turn copper and gold, crossed by trails almost no foreigners walk."
Wilderness Reserva Nacional Federico Albert (Chanco)
"Pine forest planted to halt advancing dunes now shelters wild horses on an empty Pacific coast."
Wilderness San Pedro de Atacama
"Adobe village where you stargaze through the driest, clearest sky on Earth."
Mountain Termas de Chillán
"Ski a volcano by morning, soak in sulphurous hot springs carved from its slopes by afternoon."
Wilderness Termas Geométricas
"Seventeen scarlet-painted hot pools linked by boardwalks through a steaming volcanic ravine."
Mountain Torres del Paine
"Granite towers erupt from Patagonian steppe, condors riding thermals above ice-blue lakes."
City Valdivia
"Sea lions beg for fish at the river market while German beer halls pour since 1851."
Wilderness Valle de la Luna
"Wind-carved salt cathedrals glow amber at sunset in a valley that predates all life."
City Valparaíso
"Forty-two hills of riotous street art where funiculars creak between graffiti-walled stairways."
City Villa O'Higgins
"The Carretera Austral simply stops here. Beyond this gravel outpost, only glaciers and silence."
Mountain Volcán Lonquimay (Cráter Navidad)
"A volcanic crater born on Christmas Day 1988 still steams beside its parent cone."
Mountain Volcán Villarrica
"Strap on crampons and peer into a molten lava lake inside South America's most active cone."