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Inside the Chapel The Motherhood of Mary

Chapel The Motherhood of Mary

Calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption and is normally caused by the glacier expanding.

What the local people of that time thought of themselves through art.

Puerto Natales is a city in Chilean Patagonia. It is the capital of both the commune of Natales and the province of Última Esperanza, one of the four provinces that make up the Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region in the southernmost part of Chile. Puerto Natales is the only city in the province. It is located 153 miles northwest of Punta Arenas. It is the final passenger port of call for the Navimag ferry sailing from Puerto Montt into the Señoret Channel as well as the primary transit point for travelers to Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.

With a slight redrawing of Latin borders, the Atacama would not be Chilean at all. Wedged as it is into a 600-mile strip in the extreme north of the state, its salt plains and boulders push firmly against the borders of Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Yet this merely supplies it with a remoteness that adds to its charm. The Atacama Desert is Chile at its most serrated; Chile without a safety net.

Looking skyward at La Virgen. Notice the new moon above the lower hand.

On its summit there is a sanctuary dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, with a 66 foot statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an amphitheater and a chapel. The statue of the Immaculate Conception measures 42 feet tall, and the pedestal on which it rests is 24.9 feet in height. Within the pedestal there is a small chapel in which Pope John Paul II prayed and blessed the city of Santiago on April 1, 1987. The statue is lit up at night by lights placed on its sides, allowing it to be viewed from all over Santiago both day and night. At the foot of the statue there is an amphitheater for holding masses or other religious ceremonies. Near the statue, there is also a small chapel for praying.

Command in Chief Palace of La Armada. The Command Chief Palace of the Navy

Tiny brine shrimp are super abundant in these waters! It's by eating these critters that the pink Chilean flamingos are able to maintain their definitive pink color,

Murals on the face of a restaurant

Giant molinas or wind mills on the Atacama desert floor located in Northern Chile.

A memorial erected on the high desert floor for those in this area that lost their lives during the oppressive Allende years from this part of Chile..

Ironically our bus driver's father was one of those killed from this area.

A view point to see the Amalia glacier.

The site is relatively remote,

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