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Just beyond the European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes located at Cerro La Silla, some 2-3 hours driving from La Serena – you will find interesting petroglyphs dating from one millennia ago. It is generally accepted that they belong to the El Molle culture, one of the Chilean pre-Columbian Indian cultures. I visited some of these in Quebrada Los Tambos, just on the other side of the 3.6 meters telescope, bellow the dirty road to Cerro Las Vizcachas. The presence of a course of water in the down valley may have attracted populations in a time when rain was perhaps more abundant. The petroglyphs normally depict human-shamanic figures, animals and geometric-abstract shapes. From the telescopes it takes a couple of hours walking in rough rocks at an altitude of more than 2000 meters – but it is worth the effort. Tags for this Travel Tip: petroglyphs indigenous mountains |
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