South America: Locations and Landmarks
South America's landscapes span the Andes, Amazon rainforest, Atacama Desert, and Patagonian ice fields across one of the most geographically diverse continents.
Field notes
Locations marked by south america
A focused path through the atlas, tuned for one surreal visual motif instead of a continent or collection.
Torres del Paine
Three granite towers rise 2,800 metres above Patagonian glaciers
Lake Titicaca
The world's highest navigable lake floats between Peru and Bolivia
Las Lajas Sanctuary
A Gothic cathedral hangs between two cliff faces over a gorge
Perito Moreno Glacier
A moving wall of ice 5 kilometres wide that advances into a lake
Hand of the Desert
An iron hand reaches from the Atacama void toward the sky
Huacachina
A genuine oasis waits at the bottom of Peru's highest dunes
Valle de la Luna
The Atacama carved itself into a moonscape at the end of the world
Catatumbo Lightning
The place where lightning has not stopped for centuries
Easter Island
Nine hundred stone giants and no explanation that satisfies
Lençóis Maranhenses
A desert that fills with water every year
Mount Roraima
The plateau that predates the continent it stands on
Iguazu Falls
The throat of the devil swallows the river whole
Marble Caverns
A cathedral sculpted by water over six thousand years
Caño Cristales
The river that ran five colors at once
Vinicunca
Seven colors hidden under ice for millennia
Nasca Lines
Messages written on the face of the Earth
Salar de Uyuni
Where the sky falls to Earth