El Norte Chico Travel Guide

For hundred of years, people have journeyed to El Norte Chico—Chile's Little North—for the riches that lay buried deep within the earth. First came the Incas, who wandered the burnt hills in search of gold. A century later the Spanish arrived on these shores, also seeking this precious metal. Prospectors flocked here in the 19th century when the silver boom afforded great rewards. Today it is yet another metal, copper, that yields the majority of the region's income. No wonder locals once called this "the land of 10,000 mines."

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