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Iquique with Cerro Dragón |
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View from Alto Hospicio in NW direction down to Cerro Dragón and to Iquique. The enormous dune Cerro Dragón has developed during the Ice Ages when a sand-covered marine terrace, now submerged beneath the sea surface, was exposed to the winds. It is popular for sandboarding and paragliding.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Tuesday 6 February 2018 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- (post)modernism, aeolian processes, cityscape, coastscape, dunescape, hot deserts, tall building, Zonobiome III
- Visits and license
- 7300 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license