Located 10 kilometeres from San Pedro de Atacama, on the route to the Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley). This precolombian village is an example of the sedentary lifestyle of the region. You may visit the area on your own or take an excursion leaving from San Pedro de Atacama ...

This small village from around 2,880 B. C. had a population of approximately 150 to 200 inhabitants during that period. Their main activity was ceramic, textile, agriculture, and livestock farming. The architecture of the time had circular clay buildings, joined together, and with patios and passageways that communicated with one another.  The rooms, whose foundations were set up on previously excavated grooves, were built in adobe in an arched form that reached a height of almost 2 meters, and finished off in a conical roof held by wooden poles.

The sand buried this village and today on this location you can find a museum that has reproduced the original homes with the same elements of the period. There is a viewpoint that allows you to see the formation of the village from above.