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Trekking through San Pedro de Atacama Town

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The trip begins in the San Pedro square, in where is possible to visit the church, Padre Le Peige archaeological museum, and the Municipality soon to go into in the commercial street of the town in where are tourists worldwide and villagers of the sector. All this is made in a very relaxed and calm atmosphere.

San Pedro de Atacama is a small town constructed in adobe by the first Spaniards arrived at the region, after 1550 year, keeping its architecture and typical space organization since then.

The checkerboard with its parallel layouts and a central square, in front of the Town hall, is the typical spanish construction from where the civilian authorities is exerted, conserving its typical institutional arcs, those that recently were reconstructed from the drawings of the time. In one side of the square the old centennial church is located with heavy mud walls, wood cactus ceiling covered by mud. It is the heart of the oasis bathed by waters of San Pedro and Vilama rivers, that lower from the foot of the Andes mountain range, at not more than 40 Kilometers of distance, creating deep bunkruptcy.

It is part of the Hispanic history with the passage of Diego de Almagro in 1536 and Pedro de Valdivia in 1540, being baptized like Atacama La Grande. The industrial development in the coast, during XIX century, extended the commercial perspective. From 1830 to 1870 the population handled the commerce (with llamas and mules). From 1870 the population turned upside down to the work of mines in Caracoles, in 1890 and 1925, an intense traffic of cattle occurs.

The town is small and with narrow streets; its construction is of adobe and cactus wood. San Pedro de Atacama, capital of the commune, is located to 2,400 m.s.n.m. and empashize by its architectonic beauty and by the archaeological value that it has. It was declared Typical Zone in 1980.