The former saltpetre mine of Humberstone (in operation until 1961) has been abandoned and the associated settlement is a ghost town. However, the place has been declared a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site together with the nearby site of Santa Laura and is open to visitors.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Sunday 24 September 2006 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- capitalism, ghost town, hot deserts, mining, museum, residential building, ruin, science|education, villagescape, Zonobiome III
- Visits and license
- 8127 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license