Iquique: Chile that you (still) don’t know

Not only with ski and Patagonia stations are tourism in the most recent favorite destination of Brazilians […]

At an average temperature of 20 ° C, Iquique is Chile who goes from the clichés of the winter season to the continent. After all, not only with ski and Patagonia stations are tourism in the most recent favorite destination of Brazilians.

This city in the Tarapacá region, in the far north of the country, is known not only for its colonial architecture, but also as the “capital of adrenaline”.

With attractions such as urban beaches, historic buildings, millenary images and even a ghost city, Iquique (restAccording to his name of origin Aimira, Iki Iki) It is Chile that Brazil has not yet discovered.

What to do in Iquique

Urban attractions

If the cold waters of the Pacific are not its beach, like Cavancha Spa, the city has a good structure of fish restaurants, Pub and bars along the promenade.

The capital of adrenaline also has a paragliding, sandboarding, jet ski and surfing, for its perfect pipes, known all over the world as “El Colegio”.

In addition to the beach, Iquique offers attractions such as Paseo Baquano, a historic road in the center of the city, famous for its wooden buildings, in a Victorian style of the time of the local industry of sodium nitrate in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Among the salient points of this national monument of Chile there are the municipal theater, the Astoreca palace and the clock tower.

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North Iquique, in the middle of Atacama, the place is famous for the production of tropical fruits, vibrant color buildings and natural pools of sources of thermal water, with temperatures that reach 30 °.

The Region also hosts the Salar de Huasco National Park, recently created, an area of refuge of Chilean flamingos, over 4,000 meters high, 176 km from the Immique.

Painted geoglicfi

About 95 km from Iquique, in the municipality of Pozo lunch, this attraction contains more than 60 panels with about 450 figures, in an area of 50 thousand km².

These huge images recorded on the hills would have been held between 700 and 1500 AD as representations of people, animals and geometric figures.

Old Village Saltreira de Humberstone

This old village of the height of the replacement cycle, which housed workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia, is 50 km from Iquique.

Abandoned in 1960, after the crisis of a local company, Humbersion was one of the most important bags in Chile and is currently a site of the world heritage and open for the public visit.

Abandoned, it became a ghost city that surprises the good condition of its buildings and objects. Everything remains practically as left by its last inhabitants, from inside the houses to the square, to the swimming pool and the theater.

The place is one of the main attractions of Iquique.

How to come

At 1,700 km from the capital of Chile, Iquique has no direct flights from San Paolo.

To arrive, you have to fly to Santiago (Latam, Jetsmart or Sky Airline), where another flight to Diego Aracena international airport is brought to Iquique.

Aerolíneas Argentinas manages flights with two connections, one in Buenos Aires and one in Santiago.

* Content produced without any commercial or editorial link with the NH Iquique PacificHotel in the center of Iquique with rooms overlooking the beach of Brava.

Attractions in Chile

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Source: Terra

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