SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

Chile

File number: chec0076

© South American Pictures/ Peter Francis

Chile: wooden buildings in the town of María Elena in the Atacama desert near Tocopilla. María Elena was established in the 1920s for work on the nearby low grade sodium nitrate -caliche - chile saltpeter beds of the Atacama. While similar towns lie abandoned in the desert as relics of the 19th C nitrate boom, Maria Elena continues with a population of 7,600, a museum and houses unchanged by the passage of time.

 

 

 

 

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