A country · 209 places · 16 regions

Chile, all of it.

209 curated places across 16 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.

Torres del Paine National Park · via Wikimedia Commons

The 4 biggest regions — Santiago Metropolitan Region, Los Lagos Region, Valparaíso Region and Antofagasta Region — read below as chapters, with 12 more waiting past them.

Chapter I · Santiago Metropolitan Region · 38 places

Santiago Metropolitan Region

The principal Catholic cathedral of Chile, fronting the Plaza de Armas in Santiago's historic core. Its neoclassical facade opens onto an ornate interior of chapels and marble altars.

Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral

Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

✦ Year-round · $

Sky Costanera

Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

✦ Year-round · $$

Iglesia de San Francisco, Santiago

Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

✦ Year-round · $

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Chapter II · Los Lagos Region · 27 places

Los Lagos Region

The Carretera Austral is a 1,240-kilometre highway threading through the fjords, forests, and volcanoes of northern and central Patagonia between Puerto Montt and Villa O'Higgins, much of it unpaved. The route passes the marble caves of Puerto Río Tranquilo on Lago General Carrera, the hanging glaciers of Parque Queulat, and the turquoise river mouths of the Futaleufú valley. Driving or cycling the highway is a primary way to access landscapes that have no other road connection.

✦ November to March · $$

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Chapter III · Valparaíso Region · 22 places

Valparaíso Region

Easter Island, known in Rapa Nui as Te Pito o te Henua, is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific 3,700 kilometres from the Chilean coast, famous for the 900-plus moai stone figures carved by the Rapa Nui people between roughly the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Rano Raraku volcanic quarry, where approximately 400 partially carved and abandoned moai remain embedded in the hillside, offers the most concentrated and archaeologically significant grouping. The Ahu Tongariki platform, with 15 restored moai facing inland, is the largest ceremonial ahu on the island and the primary sunrise photography position.

Easter Island

Valparaíso Region, Chile

✦ September to April · $$$

Valparaíso

Valparaíso Region, Chile

✦ October to April · $$

Monumento a los Héroes de Iquique

Valparaíso Region, Chile

✦ September–November, March–May · $

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Chapter IV · Antofagasta Region · 14 places

Antofagasta Region

San Pedro de Atacama is a small oasis town in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, built on an alluvial fan at 2,400 metres alongside the Atacameno pre-Columbian settlement of Tulor. The town functions as the main hub for excursions to the surrounding desert landscapes including the Valle de la Luna, the El Tatio geysers, and the Salar de Atacama flamingo lagoons. The R.P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological Museum holds one of the most important pre-Columbian collections in northern Chile.

✦ March to May · $$

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