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	Explora Atacama - San Pedro de Atacama
		Atacama is extraordinary in its beauty, geographical scope, and in the diversity of its natural and cultural attractions.
		To the North lies the Pampa del Tamarugal, to the East, the Altiplano and the Cordillera de los Andes, the Salar de Atacama and the Cordillera de Domeyko to the south, and to the west, the Pampa, the Cordillera de la Costa and the Pacific Ocean.
		In San Pedro de Atacama, the average winter temperature is 71 degrees F during the day and 39 degrees F at night.
	www.altue.com /english/activities/deluxe_adventure/explora_atacama.htm (1618 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Pedro de Atacama is a pre-Inca town in northern Chile, and a popular tourist destination.
		San Pedro de Atacama grew, over centuries, around an oasis in the Atacama desert.
		Chaxas Lagoon: In the Atacama Salt, is inhabited by pink flamingoes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Pedro_de_Atacama (481 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		The area's chief geographic element is the Solar de Atacama, occupying a surface 100 kilometers long by 80 km.
		Different landmarks of daily life, such as demises, crops, the arrival of llamas caravans, the mating of cattle, etc., gave occasion to festivities during which maize or carob liquor was drank and tobacco from the northeast of Argentina was smoked in pipes.
		From this epoch are defensive construction like the Pukara de Quitor, and the village of Catarpe, administrative center built in stone and mud, from which the taxation on behalf of the empire was organized.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1191 (1048 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama, Atacama Desert, Antofogasta, Chile - AmericaSol - Virtual Tourism in South America
		Such is the sky that covers every day the little village of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, located in the northern region of that country and in a geographical zone where the greatest Andean mountains are found.
		San Pedro is the main gate to one of the most inhospitable and surreal zones in the globe: the Atacama Desert.
		Still on the route to the tours that may be taken by the tourists in San Pedro de Atacama, is a walk over the Valley of Death (Valle de la Muerte).
	www.americasol.net /chile/san_pedro_atacama/index_english.html (872 words)

	Natural Attractions in San Pedro de Atacama Chile
		This is the largest of Chile's salt deposits and the second largest in South America, after Uyuni (Bolivia); its surface area is 3,000 hectares and lies in a hollow that receives the waters of the San Pedro river, as well as those of numerous streams that channel water from the Cordillera.
		The flats are located 40 kilometers south of San Pedro de Atacama and 10 kilometers west of the village of Toconao.
		It is 45 kilometers from San Pedro de Atacama and 7 to the southwest of Toconao.
	www.enjoy-chile.org /san-pedro-de-atacama-natural-attractions-chile.php (910 words)

	Chile Articles San Pedro de Atacama
		The charming village of San Pedro de Atacama, located at 2,450 meters above sea level, near the north side of the great salt deposit of Atacama (the biggest of the country), is perhaps one of the places in Chile which offers the widest number of attractions.
		The village is located in one of the many oasis originated by the ‘Bolivian winter’, in the driest desert of the world: the Atacama Desert.
		San Pedro is located at the foothills of the Andean cordillera, which reaches 6,100 meters high in this area.
	www.gochile.cl /html/SanPedro/SanPedro.asp (879 words)

	Glospi San Pedro de Atacama Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
		Add to all that, the amazing surroundings of San Pedro, with an incredible variety of natural attractions on hand —and many of them of free access- and San Pedro was, for many of us, more than a retreat, a kind of wild wonderland.
		For all that, I didn’t visited San Pedro for 9 years (my last visit, before the one I made this year, was in 1995..and it was already awful), just because it was too sad for me to see what that quiet and very special village had turned into.
		San Pedro is the operations base for visiting the many things that are around it, and for which there is always a choice of transportation, either independent or on tours, from town.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/2ef96/17c732 (1159 words)

	Programmes San Pedro de Atacama - Sportstours Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Upon arrival at the airport, assistance and transfer to San Pedro de Atacama through the Moon Valley with its eerie silence and moonscape and the snow-capped volcanoes in the background.
		San Pedro is an unusually colourful village at up 7,000 ft. (2,000 Mts.), surrounded by a green oasis, which many years ago was the centre of a Palaeolithic civilization that built impressive rock fortresses upon the steep mountains encircling the green oasis valley.
		San Pedro is an unusually colourful village at up 7,000 ft. (2,000 Mts.), surrounded by a green oasis, which many years ago was the centre of a Palaeolithic civilization that built impressive rock fortresses up on the steep mountains encircling the green oasis valley.
	www.sportstour.cl /sportstour/viajes_i/prog_ata.html (1436 words)

	SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA
		San Pedro de Atacama refreshes one like a cool wind, blowing in the burning sun of the driest desert in the world.
		From the museum to the church of San Pedro de Atacama.
		San Pedro de Atacama: desert, parched earth, sandy wastes that transform into cozy company in a town with cobbled roads and adobe buildings.
	enjoy-chile.org /san-pedro-de-atacama-chile-san-pedro-de-atacama.php (346 words)

	Chile in 2004 (4 San Pedro de Atacama) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Not far from the border we come upon the Salar de Tara which is the largest of the seven part Chilean National Reserve "Los Flamencos".
		The church of San Pedro is an unavoidable target for the amateur photographer.
		San Pedro is visited by too many tourists but some streets have retained the charm caracteristic of small mountain villages.
	berclo.net /page04/04en-chile-4.html (446 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama
		En San Pedro hay muchos lugares donde ir, el Valle de la Luna, Los Géiser del Tatío, el Pucará de Quitor o el Salar de Atacama..
		En San Pedro hay muchos lugares donde ir, algunos solo puedes ir en tour como a los Géiser del Tatío, donde salen chorros de agua desde la tierra.
		De vuelta en San Pedro te recomiendo recorrer el museo del Padre Lepaige donde se cuenta toda la cultura del pueblo Atacameño que habitaba el lugar.
	www.geocities.com /bitacora_de_viaje/sanpedro.htm (341 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama lodge Chile, small hotel, desert accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The accommodation of Terrantai Lodge in San Pedro de Atacama is a hotel conceived to honour the spirit of the traditional customs of the Atacama desert while providing the creature comforts modern travelers expect from hotels in San Pedro de Atacama Oasis.
		It is our intention to offer an original travel experience to tourists in these sacred soils of San Pedro de Atacama, so far from Europe and North America, in a manner true to the native force of the desert oasis, the Aymara culture and surrounding Andes mountains and altiplano that inspire it.
		Hotel San Pedro de Atacama - Architecture of Matias Klotz - Excursions around San Pedro de Atacama - San Pedro de Atacama wuste - Valley of the Moon, San Pedro de Atacama - Salt Lake in the Atacama desert - Aymara and altiplano culture
	www.adex.cl (253 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile's Desert Mars and Moonscape
		San Pedro de Atacama is an oasis visible far ahead as we drive the rail-straight road out of Calama.
		San Pedro is located at the foothills of the Andean cordillera, which reaches an altitude of 6,100 meters in this area.
		San Pedro is town with a 500-year leftover head rush from the hallucinogenics taken so liberally by the Incas who once ruled here.
	www.gonomad.com /destinations/0510/san_pedro_de_atacama_chile.html (1623 words)

	Home - El Portal Turistico de San Pedro de Atacama Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		La principal población de san Pedro de Atacama está constituida por descendientes de la etnia Lican Antai o atacameña, influenciados por costumbres de antepasados (inca y española) y hoy en día también por costumbres chilenas...
		de San Pedro de Atacama y a 4.000 m.s.n.m.
		Ubicados en la cordillera andina, a 99 Km de San Pedro de Atacama, los géyser se originan por el contacto del magma volcánico con aguas subterráneas frías, formando así, un intenso vapor sometido a alta presión que busca salida a través de fisuras de la tierra...
	www.sanpedrochile.com /espanol (275 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama Chile : Hotel y Tour
		Paquetes turísticos en San Pedro de Atacama Chile y sus alrededores.
		Los atractivos turísticos del desierto de Atacama se basan principalmente en la gran belleza natural que ellos poseen.
		Salares, montañas, termas, geysers, rios, entre otros, permiten disfrutar de ellos mediante múltiples actividades como trekking, bicicleta, montañismo, observación de flora y fauna y más.
	www.explore-atacama.com (473 words)

	Adventure Associates \| Latin America \| Chile \| San Pedro De Atacama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Full day excursion to the Atacama Desert, an unusually colourful village (at 2,000 metres), surrounded by a green oasis, which many years ago was the centre of a Palaeolithic civilization.
		The village is the centre of the Indian culture of Atacama, where well preserved mummies and artefacts have been recovered in the unique Father Le Paige Museum.
		Visit the little village of Chiu-Chiu, in the middle of which is one of the oldest churches built by the Spanish conquerors in the XVI Century.
	www.adventureassociates.com /chile/sanpedro/sanpedro_itin.html (265 words)

	Border crossing San Pedro de Atacama to San Augustín
		In the valley the road turns sharp east to climb over a pass (4650) and descend on the other side to the north, along the Rocas de Dali, to the Salar the Chalviri where the hot springs are situated (4320), 41 km after Laguna Verde.
		After 20 km the geysers of Sol de Mañana (4815) are situated a kilometer down to the left.
		We cycled the boarder crossing from San Pedro de Atacama to the Salar de Uyuni in may 2003.
	www.irisentoreopreis.nl /lagunaverde_map.shtml (2767 words)

	Hotel Terrantai ,San pedro Atacama.
		The accommodation of Terrantai Lodge in San Pedro de Atacama was conceived to honour the spirit of the traditional customs of the Atacama desert while providing the creature comforts modern travelers expect from hotels in San Pedro de Atacama Oasis.
		It is our intention to offer an original travel experience to tourists in these sacred soils of San Pedro de Atacama, so far from Europe and North America in a manner true to the native force of the desert oasis and surrounding Andes mountains that inspire it.
		South east of san Pedro, Pakana is a group of rocky structures in columns that have remained since geological times, as the result of volcanic eruptions, which took place during the tertiary era.
	www.chiletravelhelp.com /terrantai.htm (961 words)

	Photographs of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
		Before the Spanish came the area was conquered by the Inca from the north.There is a room in the museum dedicated to Incan artifacts made from gold.
		San Pedro's is located next to the church.
		A plaque on this house identifies it as being constructed by Fransisco De Aguirre by order of Pedro De Valdivia, before his arrival in San Pedro De Atacama in June of 1540.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/atacamasam/fotosanp.html (240 words)

	Chile en 2004 (4 San Pedro de Atacama) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Después de quitarnos el polvo salado del camino, disfrutamos de una sustanciosa comida con show de música andina incluido en la "Casa Pedra" a un precio muy razonable.
		La iglesia de San Pedro es un blanco inevitable para los fotógrafos aficionados.
		San Pedro es visitada por demasiados turistas pero algunas calles han conservado el encanto característico de las pequeñas aldeas de montaña.
	berclo.net /page04/04es-chile-4.html (469 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		San Pedro de Atacama es una comuna del norte de Chile, de la Provincia de El Loa en la II Región de Antofagasta, situada a 2.436 metros sobre el nivel del mar y a 22º 54´ 39.7´´ de latitud sur y 68º 12´ 00.2´´ de longitud oeste (Plaza de San Pedro de Atacama WGS-84).
		Con una superficie de 23.439 km² y una población de 4.969 habitantes (2.041 mujeres y 2.928 hombres), la comuna de San Pedro de Atacama acoge a un 1,01% de la población total de la región, un 61,00% corresponde a población rural y 39,00% a población urbana (Datos Censales 2002).
		Es el pueblo más antiguo de Chile, se cree que fue fundado por el inca Tupac Yupanqui el año 1450, luego en 1536 este caserío fue visitado por las huestes españolas de Diego de Almagro cuando éste vino a descubrir Chile.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Pedro_de_Atacama (374 words)

	Tours of the Atacama Desert of Chile and San Pedro de Atacama Chile
		Northern Chile's monumental landscape is represented by the Atacama Desert, the driest on the planet.
		Reception at the airport and transfer to San Pedro de Atacama.
		We will continue with visits to the villages of Toconce and Vegas de Turi on an awe inspiring route which takes us through Chiu-Chiu and Lasana, with their important cultural and historical legacies including one of the oldest and most beautiful churches in Chile.
	www.chilecallcenter.com /tours/_private/Default.htm (660 words)

	Chile, Chilean tours, Santiago, Calama, san pedro de atacama, atacama desert, Licancabur volcano, Pukara de Quitor, ...
		Tour of San Pedro de Atacama, cradle of the Atacama Culture during the pre-Columbian period.
		Followed by a visit to the Cordillera de la Sal (Salt mountain range) and the only view of the massive salt flat with the Licancabur volcano in the background.
		In the afternoon, excursion to the Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) which astonishes visitors with its geological formation of salts and carbonates and where nature has shaped an astonishing landscape.
	www.amazingperu.com /atacamatour.htm (429 words)

	LFM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Atacama Desert on the foothills of the western Andes
		San Pedro de Atacama is the most fertile oasis as well as the
		In the eastern walls of the bedrooms the adobe is combined with fossilized salt blocks that let the light come into the space during sunrise.
	www.lfm.cl /hotel.htm (229 words)

	San Pedro Atacama Chile Hotels,ChileTravelHelp.USA Office.
		San Pedro de Atacama, a city located in a pleasant oasis in the Salar of Atacama, where the visitors will find numerous hotels, restaurants and bars, is the base camp to discover Atacama’s fabulous attractions.Atacama Desert is the most arid in the world.
		Located Built on the Ayllú (neighborhood) de Larache in San Pedro de Atacama, the hotel develops along a main building and three patios.Rooms are lined up with corridors opening to a patio.
		The Hosteria San Pedro Hotel is centrally located.Rooms are equipped with amenities and provide all the comforts to its guests.
	www.chiletravelhelp.com /sanpedro.htm (381 words)

	Home - San Pedro de Atacama Chile travel and tourism site
		The main settlement of San Pedro of Atacama is constituted by descendants of the Lican Antai or Atacamanean ethnicity, influenced by the customs of ancestors (Inca and Spanish) and currently by Chilean customs...
		This beautiful landscape is located 110 kilometers from San Pedro de Atacama and at 4,000 meters above sea level.
		This lovely landscape shows two beautiful lagoons surrounded by high summits with a spectacular view towards Salar de Atacama, a must see sight for tourists visiting this area...
	www.sanpedrochile.com /english (192 words)

	Tours in San Pedro de Atacama Chile
		The quaint adobe town of San Pedro sits in an oasis on the northern edge of the world's driest desert.
		Arrival in Calama and transfer from the airport to your hotel in San Pedro de Atacama, approximately 60 miles away.
		From your hotel in San Pedro you can walk to the center of town and visit the excellent La Paige Archaeological Museum, and the local artisan fair.
	www.santiagoadventures.com /tours/San_Pedro_de_Atacama.htm (398 words)

	San Pedro de Atacama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Atacama says it all, dry hot and your basic desert.
		It is at 2,440 meters and has only 900 inhabitants but surprisingly has good accommodations and even taxis for hire.
		The story of how he built it single handed is impressive enough until you actually visit it and see the wonders there, from mummies to pre Inca artifacts it is a real lesson of the distant past of the area.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/chile/about_destin/sanpedrodeatacama.html (110 words)

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