A Chilean Lankmark

 Embalse Puclaro

I'm going to tell you about a representative from Chile that I recently visited. Last summer, in the month of February, I traveled to the city of La Serena. On this trip with my family we visited many nearby tourist attraction places.

We visited the Puclaro reservoir, which is 50 km from La Serena. To get to the reservoir it is a car trip of approximately 45 minutes, the journey is very beautiful because there is a lot of vegetation and trees in the surroundings. When you arrive, you have to enter through a steep street that takes you to the parking lot, then you start walking down that same street where there are artisan shops. After passing these artisan shops, you have to walk for about 15 minutes along this steep street to reach the first section of the reservoir.

When we got to the first view of the dam we were very impressed by how big and nice it is. We walked along a path next to the reservoir to see more, but the truth is that it is so big that we couldn't see where it ended, it was a spectacular view. It is 7 kilometers long and was built to reserve drinking water mainly to distribute to local pisco farmers.

When we left and continued our way along the road to Balle el Elqui, we could see the entire reservoir along the mountain, we could see its vinal. Another beautiful view that we really liked.