Northern Chile's monumental landscape is represented by the Atacama Desert, a beautiful coastline of lonely beaches and the Altiplano, habitat of an indigenous population of ancestral cultures.

Between the coastal mountain range and the Andes Mountains, is the Atacama Desert, the driest on the planet. Its geography is unique and includes lagoons, volcanos, salt flats, geysers, hot springs, rivers and ravines, together with a widespread Spanish legacy of XVI century churches and saltpeter deposits. The Aymard Indians, are the descendants of America's original culture. To the west, 1,240 miles of coastline face the Pacific Ocean. Here we find the cities most visited by tourists in the north: Arica, Iquique and Antofagasta. Tourism covers the coast, the coastal mountain range and its beautiful national parks, and the magical town of San Pedro de Atacama, located in an oasis, north of the Atacama salt flats, and high on the list of to see by international travelers.