In this area, workers, drawn from Chile, Peru and Bolivia, to this hostile environment, lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal Pampinos ...
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
Humberstone and Santa Laura bear witness to the birth, growth and decline of the nitrate industry that marked Chile's economy between the 19th and 20th ...
... Humberstone and Santa Laura saltpeter works: A world heritage site in Chile ... Humberstone has the structures related to the community aspects of the ...
Apr 10, 2024 ... They question the authenticity of Humberstone and Santa Laura Salpeter Works in Chile according to ... Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works ...
Exploiting the largest deposit of saltpeter in the world, these two industrial sites were in use from 1872 until the mid-20th century to produce nitrate ...
How to get there: 45 km East of Iquique on the coast of Chile. Look in town for public buses headed to Pica (Chacón and Santa Angela). Not all buses stop at ...
These former industrial sites, located in the Chilean region of Tarapacá, have been declared a World Heritage Site due to their exceptional cultural and ...
Mar 28, 2024 ... The Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, located in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, were once a significant part of the ...
At the industry's peak, there were over 200 saltpeter works dotted across the Atacama Desert, the driest in the world. In this hostile environment, workers from ...