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		In the Elqui valley, transactions were infrequent and constrained by the lack of adjustable gates, but there were significant intersectoral transfers as well as a slow transfer of water-use rights within agriculture.
		In the Elqui valley, where intersectoral trading occurred, most of the water-use rights transferred out of agriculture were not used by their owners prior to the sale.
		In the Elqui Valley a limited population of 47 permanent transactions for the period of 1986-1993 were identified with the assistance of the JDV and other WUAs in the Elqui Valley.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1995/12/01/000009265_3961214155644/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (20183 words)

	travelArt - MYSTICAL ELQUI VALLEY
		The Elqui was a valley of very special energy for the Incas and today with its clear blue sky and tremendous stars this feeling is easily captured.
		The Valle Elqui, as the Chileans call it in Spanish, is one of the most beautiful oasis in Chile, boasting many vineyards, orchards and fruit groves.
		The valley floor is a lush green color and set against stark dry hillsides and a tremendous blue sky.
	www.travelart.com /en/travel_c-ser-01.php (555 words)

	MSN Encarta - Chile
		The Central Valley is 1,000 km (about 600 mi) long and ranges from 40 to 80 km (25 to 50 mi) in width.
		The southern region is without an interior valley; the valley disappears below the sea at Puerto Montt.
		In the northern and central regions the rivers are fed primarily by the perpetual snow cover of the Andes.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761572974 (886 words)

	pisco.web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Provided here is a panoramic view, which allows one to see the parched hills, rising from both sides, to reveal the lush valley at the center, and the highway, which snakes through this scenery, beckons one to continue on toward the cordillera of the Andes.
		Pisco Elqui is quiet and picturesque, with the town plaza as the point of encounter for residents and visitors alike.
		To the side of the plaza is a Gothic style church, whose tower is raised, imposingly, to the transparent skies of Elqui.
	academic.evergreen.edu /g/gilbertj/valle.elqui.htm (1078 words)

	Nik & Rich in South America: Chile, La Serena and the Elqui Valley
		After Santiago we headed up to La Serena and the Elqui Valley, an oasis of vineyards and fruit trees in the middle of the desert of the north.
		We headed into the Elqui Valley, renowned for having the clearest skies on earth, and there are a few world class observatories there.
		Thankfully, we stumbled on a posh hacienda in a green valley which said it was full, but after some persuasion gave us a room in the staff quarters for the night.
	haleystokes.blogspot.com /2005/03/chile-la-serena-and-elqui-valley_25.html (771 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Elqui Valley is where the majority of Pisco is made.
		Surprisingly they said yes which was really cool cause we ended up with the whole other side of the river to ourselves, not to mention the fact that we had the mountain behind us which we would end up climbing later.
		The pictures really don't do it justice for showing how steep and dangerous it was but it was well worth the risk as when we climbed it at night and watched the moon set behind the mountains, that must have been one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~dutcher/chile/elqui_valley (342 words)

	Budget car hire la (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Elqui Valley is an extended oasis with an incredibly., beautiful natural setting featuring a verdant green valley floor and the Elqui River set against a backdrop of stark steep hills.
		Perhaps the most unique feature of the Elqui Valley is that the region is purported to possess special ethereal energies.
		Farther up the valley from Pisco Elqui are several ashrams, whose leaders have chosen to locate in the region for those reasons.
	budget.998guide.com /budget-car-hire-la (1186 words)

	Elqui Valley and Pisco Distilleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The tour begins on the banks of the Elqui River, the lush setting for villages like Agarrobito, which is famous for its especially beautiful church and ancient olive groves; Altovalsol, seat of the Inca population during their domination of the area; and idyllic El Molle, where archaeological evidence of the Molle culture was first discovered.
		The tour proceeds past fields of olives, avocados, papayas, lúcumas and chimoyas (the latter, a pair of unique local fruits) and El Tololo, the principal observatory of the Southern Hemisphere.
		Finally, picnic lunch on a hill overlooking the valley in Pisco Elqui, a quiet pisco-producing town formerly known as La Unión.
	www.poncedeleontravel.com /html/elqui_valley_and_pisco_distill.html (165 words)

	Chile's Elqui Valley, Home of Pisco - Cultural Travel Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is from muscatel grapes vines grown in one of those defiles, the Elqui Valley, that Chile’s national cocktail, the pisco sour, flows.
		The town of La Serena is the gateway to the Elqui valley, and a regional center with well preserved classic Spanish architecture.
		As the valley narrows, vineyards are broken with rows of swaying poplar trees, and more recently, towering fabric curtains.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/APR2002/Chile_Pisco.htm (921 words)

	Coquimbo Shore Excursions
		Towards the mountains is the Elqui Valley with the town of Vicuña, home of the Museum Gabriela Mistral (one of the two Literature Nobel prize winners that have Chile) and the bottlery Pisco Capel.
		In Coquimbo or La Serena sometimes there is fog in the morning, while in the Elqui Valley, the sun bright clearly; the skies are so clean that nearby there is Astronomic Observatories.
		During summertime is impressive to see the arid hills, while the valley is coloured by the green of the vineyards.
	www.guiaslux.com /Tours/ports/chilecoquimbo.html (400 words)

	Chile Travel Itineraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the heart of the Elqui Valley is Vicuna, the birth place of Chile's Nobel Prize winning poet Gabriel Mistral.
		Pisco Elqui is a tiny Andean village offering general peace and a slow way of life and is popular with hippies and travellers.
		Santa Cruz is located 179 kms south-west from Santiago in the heart of the agricultural zone of the Central Valley, now established as a main wine-producing area known as the Colchagua Valley.
	www.chile-travel.org /area.php?id=central_chile&rnd=1291619052 (1224 words)

	Gemini Update
		The Elqui River flows through the valley and up until a few years ago subjected the valley to years of great harvests or virtual droughts, depending on the amount of rainfall or runoff from the mountains (neither of which is ever very much).
		The valley is rightly famous for its wines and particularly its Pisco - the Chilean national drink.
		The Nobel Laureate poet Gabriella Mistral was born and did most of her writing in the Elqui Valley.
	www.casca.ca /ecass/issues/2002-me/news/gemini/gemini.html (626 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In order to assess the impact of water markets and transactions costs in Chile, four river valleys, the Maipo, Elqui, Limari, and the Azapa were selected as case studies.
		Transactions from the Elqui and Limari valleys, during the years 1986 to 1993, were analyzed to determine the gains-from-trade from market transfers.
		In the Elqui Valley net gains-from-trade per share were within the range of recent transfer prices of US$1000.
	www.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/01695150/articles/15/3/S016951509601205.abstract.en (306 words)

	Tourism in Elqui Valley - Chile Contact
		· Tourism in Elqui Valley, is one of the places that call most attention in this country ·
		The Elqui Valley is one of the places that call most attention in this country.
		It is the birthplace of the greatest female poet of the country and literature Nobel Prize winner: Gabriela Mistral.
	www.chilecontact.com /en/conozca/valleElqui.php (92 words)

	Ecotour Into The Elqui Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The valley is tinged with an esoteric air and many insist that it is the "energy centre" of the world.This place is a geographic configuration which is unique in the world.
		This is the main town of the valley, 60 kilometers from La Serena, and is also noted for being the birthplace of Gabriela Mistral, the Nobel Prize winner for literature.
		The tour begins its descent down the valley, stopping at the tomb of Gabriela Mistral in the village of Montegrande and a visit to the old schoolhouse where she spent her childhood and is now a small museum.
	www.chileoutdoors.com /english/activities/multiactivities/Ecotour_Into_The_Elqui_Valley.htm (1837 words)

	Astronomical Observatory Mamalluca, Valley Elqui - Chile Contact
		During the day complete walk through this mystic, surprising and hot Valley, that with their fertile lands give rise to a great one chacarería, to culminate toward the interior with novel plantations of chirimoyas papayas, eggfruit and olives to what add the beautiful vineyards, that cause ours typical regional liquor, the PISCO.
		Visit in Vicuña, more important city of the Valley, the Museum Gabriela Mistral, erected in homage to the Prize Nobel Gabriela Mistral, the Tower Baüer, the Immaculate Church Conception and Plaza of Weapons.
		Valorizaremos the great literary work and the love that the valley generates, al to know the House School and Grave of Gabriela Mistral in the pueblito of Montegrande.
	www.chilecontact.com /turismo/en_tour/Astronomical-Observatory-9.html (512 words)

	Gabriela Mistral and the Elqui Valley, en Chile
		Gabriela Mistral and the Elqui Valley, en Chile
		The Elqui Valley is also famous as the birthplace of the Chilean poet, Gabriela Mistral.
		The Casa Escuela Museum is administered by the municipality of Paihuano (telephone (56-51) 451 015) and it is open to visitors from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00.
	turismochile.com /guide/chile/articles/615?... (458 words)

	Ryan overlooking Elqui Valley \| Photo
		After Valparaíso, we headed to Pisqo Elqui, a town in the Elqui Valley about 7 hours north of Valparaíso.
		This meant snow on the mountains around Pisquo Elqui and cold, cold temperatures that first night.
		The town of Pisquo Elqui is probably the smallest town we´ve stayed in thus far.
	www.travelblog.org /Photos/39368.html (112 words)

	Vino! Wine Newswire \| REGION OF COQUIMBO, THE BEST GRAPES FOR GREAT WINES OF CHILE
		The Elqui and Limari Valleys have vineyards where the finest grapes are produced for the making of exceptional wines.
		Year to year, the Central Valley must mix the variations in their grape production as these vineyards deal with an actual need to buy grapes from the IV Region.
		The biggest challenges the IV region has are in researching the terroirs in order to determine the potentialities of these valleys and then to taking the information and to getting the best plantation and resources.
	www.vino.com /press/press_release.asp?PRID=524 (590 words)

	Elqui Valley and Vineyards
		The Elqui valley lies east of the coastal town of La Serena, itself a beautiful sight (especially after weeks in the Loma and Atacama deserts).
		The valley is broad and peaceful, with a distinct European flavor that comes from the vineyards, small farms and streams, and even from the hills themselves.
		The wind is brisk from the west, a joy to riders heading uphill over Agua Negra pass, at 4760 meters (nearly 16,000 feet) a hefty climb indeed.
	www.cyclingscholar.com /elqui.html (859 words)

	ChileanVacation.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The house is located 35 miles east of the La Serena airport and about 5 minutes from the town of Vicuña.
		It's in the heart of the Elqui Valley, a 150-mile-long oasis surrounded by arid mountains that stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Argentine border.
		The Valley's ideal climate has made it Chile's premier vacation destination; sun worshippers love its average of over 300 sunny days a year, astronomy buffs come for its night sky, and New Age folks swear by its mystic energy.
	www.chileanvacation.com /english/loc01.html (95 words)

	Maria Chang
		The dam was built to prevent the cycle of flooding and drought experienced by the valley.
		The dam is not the highest point in the valley; many taller mountains and hills surround it.
		However, it still serves as a landmark because it is the largest man-made structure in the valley.
	www.stanford.edu /class/cee33x/QResponses/Q3MariaJennilee.htm (1233 words)

	Valparaíso to Valle Elqui and Back - Gallery 5
		The Elqui Valley is notable for several unique characteristics.
		Valle Elqui is the pisco capital of Chile, the brandy spirit distilled from fermented muscatel grapes of Pisco Sour fame, producing over 90% of Chile’s pisco.
		The Elqui Valley is world famous for its night skies, at least among astronomers.
	www.punchdragon.com /photos/ELQElquiValley/ELQElquiValleyGallery5.html (533 words)

	Detailed itinerary: La Serena, Elqui Valley and wine regions
		An unusual trip from the northern Pacific coast through the magical Elqui Valley, famous for the clearest skies in the southern hemisphere, and on to the wine regions.
		Days 5-10: Driven down the Elqui valley to the airport and fly to Santiago.
		After a night at the Hotel Park Hyatt, in a leafy square in Mendoza, you are driven to Chateau D’Ancon for 3 nights.
	www.lastfrontiers.com /itindetail.php?c=argentina&id=38 (247 words)

	Ecoaustral Chile travel to Chile valleys Of The Stars
		Thanks to Elqui Valley's warm climate and fertile earth, Pisco is able to be distilled.
		The North of Chile, and particularly the Elqui Valley, presents unique characteristics for scientific astronomical observation.
		Enjoy the Elqui Valley's calm atmosphere, its beautiful landscapes and the special mystic energy.
	www.ecoaustralchile.com /espanol/productos/Valle/res_vallei.htm (132 words)

	Chile Travel Itineraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Central Chile is home to the fertile Central Valley, an area rich in agriculture and where most of the country's vineyards are planted.
		In the mountains, especially close to Santiago, are the ski resorts of Valle Nevado, Portillo, La Parva, El Colorado and Farellones - usually covered in snow in July, August and September.
		The greenest of the valley contrasts vividly against the barren, brown sides of the mountains.
	www.chile-travel.org /area.php?id=central_chile&rnd=1291619052 (1224 words)

	Maxim Tours, Uncommon Journeys in Africa & Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Departure for a excursion to the Elqui Valley and Vicuña, located 40 miles east of La Serena.
		We will see that nice and intensely cultivated valley, which is a real oasis.
		This valley (kind of open air museum) is of great archaeological importance due to the presence of the "El Molle" culture, a hunter-and gatherer group from almost 2000 BC.
	www.maximtours.com /latin/chile/laserena-magic.asp (434 words)

	lil'gink: Get Your Bolivia On
		She won it way back in 46, died 10 years later, and a lot of her life is preserved up in Monte Grande one of the highest town in the valley.
		It sits on the hill between two high mountains just above the valley floor which is covered in grape vines for as far as the eye can see.
		What`s also rad about Pisco Elqui is that 40 years ago the named was changed from whatever is was before to Pisco Elqui because somehow this gave Chile the exclusive right to sell the drink under the name Pisco.
	www.katherinehouse.com /steve/archives/001535.html (733 words)

	Chile Lodging
		The dominant physical feature of Chile is the Andes Mountains, which extend the entire length of the country, from the Bolivian plateau in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south.
		The valley, which ranges from 40 to 80 km (25 to 50 mi) in width, is the most heavily populated area of the country.
		The long chains of islands along the coast are formed by the peaks of the submerged coastal mountains.
	www.sacayonda.info /country/cl.html (830 words)

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