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Waves of the Pacific Ocean roll into Antofagasta, Chile. Since the city is situated in the Atacama Desert — the driest region in the world — it has incredibly sparse vegetation. In total, Antofagasta is home to nearly 400,000 residents and is the third largest city in the country.

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In Altolar, architecture acts as a border between the city’s space and a quiet room inside full of tropical vegetation, open circulation corridors, and aerial bridges. A large architectural form, built on an existing retaining wall, which picks up the topography of the hill:

James Walter Alcock: Edificio Altolar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1966

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Quito is the capital and second most populous city in Ecuador, with roughly 2 million residents. Located at an elevation of 9,350 feet (2,850 meters) above sea level, it is also the second highest official capital city in the world (behind La Paz, Bolivia). The city is divided into 32 urban parishes, or cabildos, and this Overview features the wavy street grid of the Chimbacalle parish.

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Population density map is Peru, 2020.

Lake Poopó is a saline lake in the Altiplano Mountains of Bolivia. At peak water levels, it covered roughly 390 square miles (1,000 square km) and was the second-largest lake in the country, but now it is almost completely dried up. Scientists believe that diversion of the lake’s waters for agriculture and mining played a large role in its decline.

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985. Walter Weberhofer /// Elías Fernandini House /// Santa María del Mar, Lima, Peru /// 1957-58