Dozens of archaeological sites, excellent museums and close access to breathtakingly beautiful landscapes and pre-Hispanic communities make San Pedro de Atacama one of the world's leading international tourist destinations.

 

The fact that it appears in any guidebook and that hundreds of reports are dedicated to it does not exempt us from granting a space in the Chilean cultural heritage site to this important international tourist destination in the north of Chile: San Pedro de Atacama - A small and ancient Andean town in the middle of the driest desert in the world, with almost five thousand inhabitants, whose streets and adobe houses today house hotels, restaurants, pubs, travel agencies and even art galleries, forming a good level infrastructure at the service of a non-conventional tourism. The offer, which has been able to take advantage of the remarkable cultural and natural heritage, developing, for example, gastronomy, natural medicine and local architecture, is mainly aimed at foreigners who visit the place all year round, attracted by its mystical prestige.

 

Located in the Loa Province in the second region of Antofagasta at 2436 meters above sea level, in an oasis on the northern edge of the great Salar de Atacama (the largest in the country), and only an hour's drive from the city of Calama, San Pedro de Atacama is a compendium of treasured riches in a museum, numerous archaeological sites, spectacular landscapes, architecture, customs, and the whole universe of pre-Hispanic vestiges of the Atacama tradition that can be felt and breathed there, under one of the brightest and clearest skies on the planet.