Another in the series of Very Strange Places

[fivemack]

http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-23.50733,-68.373413&spn=0.242104,0.322037

Up in the Chilean altiplano, this is presumably some sort of mining facility; it looks a bit better on Google Earth but I'm not sure how to link to it there.

The bottom blue square is a mile and a half on a side. As to the purpose of the straight lines etched across the desert, search me.

Comments

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

It could be the salt flats. A friend of mine went there on a treck from Peru to Chile, and took some totally otherworldly photos. It's one of the places I would love to visit.

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Finding out what these things are is good fun. I think they're evapouration pans for mineral extraction from the Salar de Atacama, probably this company's operation. I think the lines are pipes for pumping brine around.

Google Earth

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Add -> Placemark and then save the placemark. Example.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Straight lines in the desert are traditionally assumed to be landing strips for alien craft, no? :)