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Caleta Camarones | |
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| Country |  Chile |
| Region | Arica and Parinacota Region |
Caleta Camarones is a town located in the extreme southwest of Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile. This is where the Camarones Valley ends, and where the Camarones River flows to the Pacific Ocean. The main economic activity is fishing.
The beach and the wetlands of Caleta Camarones provide some scenic sights.
In 2010, a monumental sculpture celebrating the Chinchorro Culture was inaugurated in the town as part of the bicentennial of the Chilean Republic. The sculpture is four and a half meters tall and weighs eight tons; it is located in the vicinity of the archaeological sites 'Camarones 14 and 15'. The work was inaugurated by the Mayor, and it aims to celebrate the Chinchorro Culture throughout Chile and worldwide. In 1998, the process started to add Chinchorro culture sites to UNESCO list of the World Heritage of Humanity. The sculpture is the work of the local sculptor Paola Pimentel.
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Azapa Valley is a fertile and narrow oasis in Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile. It is framed between two sere hills and divided by the San Jose River that runs during the summer season. It is located three kilometres (1.9 mi) from the city of Arica. This jewel of the north has a unique climate that permits the farming of a great variety of fruits and vegetables throughout the year. This is in addition to the unique Azapa olives, renowned for their violet color and bitter flavor that also gives birth to a hearty oil.
The Chinchorro mummies are mummified remains of individuals from the South American Chinchorro culture, found in what is now northern Chile. They are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains, having been buried up to two thousand years before the Egyptian mummies. The earliest mummy that has been found in Egypt dated around 3000 BCE, while the oldest anthropogenically modified Chinchorro mummy dates from around 5050 BCE.
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The Chinchorro culture of South America was a preceramic culture that lasted from 9,100 to 3,500 years BP. The people forming the Chinchorro culture were sedentary fishermen inhabiting the Pacific coastal region of current northern Chile and southern Peru. Presence of fresh water in the arid region on the coast facilitated human settlement in this area. The Chinchorro were famous for their detailed mummification and funerary practices. The area of the Chinchorro culture started to receive influences from the Andean Plateau around 4,000 BP, which led to the adoption of agriculture. Much later, it came under the influence of the Tiwanaku Empire.
Caleta Buena is a Chilean town. The town is currently uninhabited and located in the commune of Huara, Province of Tarapacá, Region of Tarapacá. It is located 30 km south of Pisagua and 31 km north of Iquique. Geographically, Caleta Buena is a small cove.
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