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Humberstone

Abandoned saltpeter (nitrate) mining town in the Atacama desert, Chile, with its theatre, pool and workers' houses intact. It records the boom and bust of the nitrate industry.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1872 CE mainstream
  saltpeter works founded (La Palma, later Humberstone) source
• 1960 CE mainstream
  works close and the town is abandoned source
• 2005 CE mainstream
  Humberstone and Santa Laura inscribed by UNESCO source

Where

20.2100° S, 69.8100° W

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberstone_and_Santa_Laura_Saltpeter_Works
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1178/

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