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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Between life and abandonment. Walking along the streets, you cannot tell which houses are inhabited.

CHILE | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [258] | View Larger Image

Between life and abandonment. Walking along the streets, you cannot tell which houses are inhabited.

El Volcán was a symbol of industrial progress in Chile, until 1973 when the military coup took prisoners most of its habitants because they were left wing sympathizers, as a result, the mine stopped working. Nowadays it is abandoned, only six families live there of more than a thousand people that were before the coup.

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The silo from the gypsum mine remains standing, it is like a monument to the progress the town once had. The mine company still owns the land, but its people can barely make a living from tourism as well as a company agreement that pays them to clean and protect the place.

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