Street art, a trip along of Chili - The North

in art •  7 years ago 

The sea, present from North to South in the whole territory.
The "Mano del Desierto" is a large-scale sculpture of a hand located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, constructed by the Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal.
A man dressed (disguised) for the "Fiesta de la Tirana", an annual festival held in the locality of La Tirana in the Tarapacá Region of northern Chile. This takes place on July 16 in honour of the Virgen del Carmen.
Finally, in the background, you can see the northern mountains with the rustic drawings created by the first inhabitants of this place.
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Here, a huge truck that represents the mining activity in the North of Chile.
A little further on, the astronomical observatories La Silla and El Tololo.
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Here we have Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, diplomat, educator and humanist. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945. Behind her, the landscape of Elqui Valley, her birthplace.
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