The Desert Rainless For 400 Years: Atacama | TRACKS

Deserts are the most haunting of all the Earth’s landscapes. Sometimes we think of them as vast empty spaces that dwarf and test our human spirit. But that view is wrong in so many ways.
They are full of colour and contrast. There are mountains and lagoons among the dunes and plains. They often teem with life and are rich in resources. Their peoples have remarkable qualities of ingenuity and endurance, wisdom and humour - their festivals and gatherings full of colour and energy.
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[@progfan234]

There are so many amazing places in this world. Thank you for bringing them to us.

[@TRACKSTravelDocs]

Thank you for the support! 🥳

[@melissalamberts9588]

So true. This my favourite documentary channel.

[@csa7189]

Interesting country and beautiful people. I ❤ desert landscapes!

[@paariraaju9688]

Places with wealth are plundered and left as ghost towns. People are left to the mercy of God!!. Wonderful documentary

[@arabellabirnbaum3997]

I wonder why they didn't show one of the most wonderful miracle of the desert. Once in a while (years) its rain in the south of Atacama and then the desert explode in kilometers of pink ,yellow ,white and blue carpets of añañucas the tiny flowers that only grow in Atacama. Tourists from all over the world come to see this miracle. I had the blessing to see it twice 💐

[@ianpodmore9666]

Probably because they filmed this in one of the years it didn't rain.

[@arabellabirnbaum3997]

@@ianpodmore9666 Ha ha ha 😂😆🤣

[@brittnyy113]

​@@ianpodmore9666 then Ian, obviously they should record the phenomenon when it happens, edit the documentary with that added in and then re-upload. It's done all the time.

[@akshaymaheshwari1101]

Rainfall occurs due to the phenomenon called El-Nino.

[@akshaymaheshwari1101]

Sometimes rainfall occurs due to the phenomenon called Elnino. It brings unusual rainfall in Atacama desert .

[@iceleb452]

The mummies are well preserved until now. Amazing!

[@jeromefianza3079]

Truly unique,yet we human don't know how to love,care about it,GOD is watching!

[@canadiankewldude]

Yes he is, they always claim ancient dates like that ancient city 10,000 years old. To bad all the worlds deserts are far younger, due to Noah's flood. *_God Bless_*

[@anthonypeters8714]

Every footage of this documentary from TRACKS was simply absorbing which so much of reality shown in Atacama. Thanks Millions invested on the Observatory could have been used for people living there. For the betterment of their lives. Thanks again to Tracks and team.

[@junpinedajr.8699]

Right you are Sir,that is what i call impractical priorities,we human keep exploring outer space,while millions suffer in poverty.STUPID IS IT NOT?.

[@shadetreader]

What's really stupid is allowing the rich to exist while millions suffer in poverty. Science and working class interests are NOT incompatible. Capitalism and working class interests are.

[@venkykitu]

Great informative video documentary hope such videos are shown to kids and create awareness of protecting this mother earth. As the lady rightly said that to live around in this wonderful planet our future needs water; Flora and fauna around us Let's save thus planets for future generations to survive.

[@rahimresad7045]

Thanks so much for posting this. I am so glad i made the decision to ride in South America back in 2019 to experience Atacama desert myself and love everything about it.

[@sadiahassangure6434]

Q

[@dyalsaraswati3915]

POOR PEOPLE R ON GOD MERCY EVERY WHERE IN THE WORLD

[@hornantuutti5157]

Oh and also unemployed gets money some 530e for food etc.

[@cyrusodera2547]

This documentary is dope

[@reelhappytravellers2691]

I can't express how beautiful this is Your upload is irresistible. Thanks for sharing and keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand the real life more and more!!!!

[@pauljohnson2982]

Almost every aspect of humanity and nature is included in this Incredible documentary. Thanks for the upload.

[@davidpringle7262]

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[@josephmwambingu7742]

I am in love with track documentary

[@eagledon]

I would love to do a travel vlog there, absolutely one of a kind place

[@eagledon]

@michael boultinghouse oo i understand, it will be difficult to afford but hope i can make it , thank you

[@eagledon]

@michael boultinghouse I hope i can do it soon, for the moment am travleing in Balkan.Hope to visit Attacama desert soon.Thank you for your help sir

[@boonkchong60]

@@eagledon r

[@deepakbhatt340]

Nice information with nice journey. Waiting for such a nice wonderful journey. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@davidseslar5798]

400 years is a really long beer binge!

[@pam4840]

The soil there never knew what it means to be wet😂

[@starlight9335]

@50:29 ... "There's water everywhere ... but in our villages"

[@pedrotampos2877]

yessss

[@nocturneowl2660]

Great video. Great voice of the narrator. Awesome “Tracks Team” 👏❤️❤️❤️

[@seanconnery1277]

3.10.2021.Very good,best and marvelous documentary.Thank you.

[@gw7120]

What a indepth documentary, maybe next millennia the desert will be a thriving forest , and some other parts a desert

[@JohnDoe-re4qy]

Oh, that's definitely coming. And large portions of coastline will be underwater... Egypt in it's heyday was a land with lush vegetation and wildlife.

[@josealbinosantosnogueira6013]

Drought, not draught. In British English, for example, draught is used, e.g., for draught beer, i.e., beer that you pump out of a keg and pour it into pints and half pints glasses with almost no froth at all (unlike the Germans and mostly everyone else...). The Americans spell it "draft". It also has other meanings, of course.

[@Hoss_Delgado977]

I feel really dumb for not catching that typo until your comment...

[@stanislavidalgo3661]

Latin america to me is the most interesting and mystic region in the world.

[@InHisSservice]

thank you . grateful.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

32:10 cute dog 🐶

[@md.sumanahammed187]

Kind of God. We livink in difficult environment .

[@heli398]

Cool documentary

[@thisnthat7760]

Isn't it ironic that they are searching for distant galaxies while people around them are dying?

[@thegardener3276]

How is that ironic?

[@thegardener3276]

It'd be ironic if they were searching for people dying in distant galaxies

[@pegasodeoro3158]

@@thegardener3276 we are destroying the planet, and instead of putting all efforts in building a decent society we are like dummies looking at the sky while the ground is burning

[@primenumberbuster404]

​@@pegasodeoro3158 Thats one of the most juvenile thing to say.

[@soumyasamanta8395]

This is wonderful

[@rameshpedapoodi3846]

Yes-soumya -Samantha Indian🇮🇳 wonderful

[@jkardez4794]

Clickbait! I was so looking forward to cold beer coverage. Anyways enjoyed the alternative - incredible how people are trying to survive such terrific odds.

[@deadinteresting8905]

Draught? As in a draught of cold air coming in through a crack under a door... Lol, I think you mean drought .. as in, dry AF ;)

[@silfawai1535]

PROTECT! PROTECT! PROTECT! YOUR LANDS LIVLÌIHOODS ANYWAY U CAN ... DONT LET THOSE LAND SUCKING COPERATIONS , GET PASS 1 INCH OF YOUR LAND( WHENUA ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES...OF MONGOLIA' TIBET ' SPAIN...IKINA ' AFRICA ...DISERTED LAND IS BLESSED FORM GOD TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES...MAY GOD BE WITH YOU 🙏🦋💦🍃

[@annabellefoxnesbitt9305]

Oh my goodness that’s the power of God he’s like made sure that all the animals were fed like oh my goodness

[@reconeix]

I wonder why this 'god' doesn't make sure that all human children are fed and safe!?

[@d.i.l.l.i.g.a.f]

Is the Title Incorrect, did you mean Drought? As i imagine quite a lot of open spaces are pretty Drafty

[@mrb2081]

Haha! I kept waiting for them to get to the part about 400 year old beer lol

[@paulor9577]

Awesome video!

[@ranjittyagi9354]

I've seen Pinochet on a wheelchair as well. Why do humans forget they're here for just a bit? Just a bit!

[@Mukeshgonsalves]

Many scientific researches n predictions make me amazed that at one hand we are searching life in UNIVERSE on other PLANETS and dying to find water ,air n soil there .BUT on other hand We are destroying n polluting our own NATURAL RESOURCES LIKE WATER,AIR n SOIL which are being given to us FREELY by MOTHER NATURE ..WHY DON'T we save our own PLANET and stop destroying things ?? What we need ? What our needs are ? Fresh food,pure water n air n fertile soil ,and these things are being given to us by our planet EARTH ..why we want more luxurious things for our life ? WE WILL NEVER DEFEAT MOTHER NATURE ..

[@markrowland1366]

Your commentary pointed out she had no electricity while showing an outside electric lamp. Ok so it may be a solar powered one but we had a car generator turned by falling water for lights and a radio with a three hundred root arial to a tree.

[@nealteitelbaum8660]

Came for the 400 year old draught beer. Stayed for the doc.

[@someonesomewhere2799]

😆👍🏽

[@bedbugtrippin]

DROUGHT

[@carlosalcinofranciscoperal3147]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@annabellefoxnesbitt9305]

Lord I just pray for this man because this is his lead as in he’s taking good care of him the land that God provided for this dude there’s flamingos over there

[@johngeorge5684]

My girl

[@marvwatkins7029]

Left high and dry. Lessons to learn.

[@youme1414]

The narrator said, "she has no electricity" and there is light bulb on the roof of her house. 5:16 that is very funny.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

💡

[@sonyequator6852]

For water purpose, why the local or central government, don't built mini water The Salination, near the village. So they had plenty of water for drink and irrigation. For electric Power to operate the Salination Machine could use Solar Cell field. Everything could be solve as long as there be a Will. Thanks Track Team had sharing this precious, teary video. Warm Greets from Far East South

[@jivvyjack7723]

I wonder too. We already have the technology. Probably should consult the descendants of that Chinese slave.

[@PAULLONDEN]

God bless Uncle Sam.....the 'saviour of democracy" ....

[@hupaogaming9559]

its kinda sad to see beautiful place ruined by human.. can't imagine for those who grow up there

[@shadetreader]

A beautiful place ruined by capitalism

[@debnoble1800]

@@shadetreader Not capitalism, but worship of negative forces. It's not the money system its how its used and who they worship ----- false idols. Can you say Lucifier aka Satan????

[@mikaalzauray950]

in chanavaya, you could planting coconut. give me reason, i dont see one of coconut tree in this video

[@barrysims9906]

RIP Mario.

[@GreenOrchid9]

We should go here and give the rest of the world a rest....no hiding😨🤕🤔🎶🌅😷

[@Palenque_pupikaka]

39:38 the dead die once, but its living keep on die daily 😢

[@watso-007]

Desperate to watch this thanks

[@Montube85]

🇨🇱Chile👏🇨🇱

[@InHisSservice]

I agree! LOVE CHILE

[@ManojKumar-lm7kc]

sad to see native peoples conditions

[@bessiebraveheart]

400 year draught.

[@quadrim.a.2816]

Our plenet is uniq it being Gods particle .

[@gokulakrishnan4248]

I think its 'Drought' not 'draught'..🥋

[@chestervaldes7551]

This show is making me thirsty!

[@rgh7399]

The music is so loud it hurts my ears

[@jbuckley2546]

I think you mean drought. Draught is for beer.

[@hectorheslop9397]

The sands of the desert is sacred, never to be used as an open bathroom .

[@neddyladdy]

Has someone been reading rain guages for over 400 years?

[@rudytexas6825]

They need to get an education and stop trying to stop progress . The world needs those minerals.

[@MrCakocalypse]

It dosnt goes out of my mind, as soon they discovered him doing it well they came for the wather, they came in the desert to take wather😟😩

[@robbrown4621]

They should build a small desalination plant right there on the sea. Israel has a huge one. Israel has brought the cost down substantially in desalination. They could have more than all the water they need... Chile can do this.

[@ianpershing1200]

is there a go fund me that abuela on the farm all by herself. is she okay?

[@the0point]

draught lol

[@jameswest4819]

People have not used up the water.

[@thureintun1687]

i was hoping to learn about the desert Atacama itself (hows it's status, the geological formations, the extreme biomes and ecosystem.. Simply put, general knowledge on it). Instead this ends up presenting me with more politics than anything else🤷🏻🙆 I'm sick Where can i watch a science documentary about this one of a kind desert, some part of which one of, if not THE best Mars analog site on earth Please link me if someone knows the docu Thanks in advance

[@eugenericcihipona7165]

The answer for water scarcity is easy. Why not build a salination plant to turn sea water into a consumable one? Or the other way around, why won't industrialist take this as a turning point to return natural glacier water to people instead and use the processed water if ever they build a salination plant for industrial purposes? It is such a heart breaking story, nothing returns to the people while industrialist enjoy all the environmental exploits.

[@bermudezhg]

Transnational Corporations represent Stock holders and not poor people living in villages in the desert. Some DESALINATION plants have been constructed here and there, near big towns of the Atacama desert. The Transnationals are assisted by the repugnant Chilean upper class in ransacking water resources since the 1800s. Ransacking natural resources is cheaper than paying for desalination plants. However, there is a good thing : The Transnationals and the repugnant upper class are just promoting a bloody revolution with their imbecility.

[@davidmackie8552]

Are you sure about the 'draught '? Not a drought?

[@alexandervanwyk7669]

It is truly heart breaking that local communities always suffer after mining activities, leaving ruins and death behind. One day, one day that will change. Jesus said He will rule the last thousand years in truth and justice but with an iron fist. No evil plots will be planned ever again. I live for that day. The last thousand years of reign with Christ, my Lord and Saviour.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

This very religion caused so much destruction to these gullible folks!

[@tiktokpilipinas6443]

human destroy everything.

[@lescoe]

Go back to TikToxic.

[@solapowsj25]

A desert that's next to the Pacific Ocean is strange 🤔 ! Water, water everywhere, but a 400 year drought. Even the Amazon faced water shortage this year. Sad that the Nixon administration had worked to create the conditions for the coup, probably because they fear 😨 a Russian base here with nuclear weapons.

[@braj14177]

Place from James bond movie 🏜️

[@lillianebwire4897]

Governments some times lack priorities, killing people in their programs

[@ioodyssey3740]

draught /draft/ British spelling of draft (sense 3 of the noun, sense 4 of the noun, sense 6 of the noun, sense 7 of the noun). adjective British spelling of draft (adjective).a preliminary version of a piece of writing. "the first draft of the party's manifesto" a plan, sketch, or rough drawing. COMPUTING a mode of operation of a printer in which text is produced rapidly but with relatively low definition. noun: draft mode; plural noun: draft modes 2. US compulsory recruitment for military service. "25 million men were subject to the draft" NORTH AMERICAN a procedure whereby new or existing sports players are made available for selection or reselection by the teams in a league, usually with the earlier choices being given to the weaker teams. RARE a group or individual selected from a larger group for a special duty, e.g., for military service. 3. a current of cool air in a room or other confined space. "heavy curtains at the windows cut out drafts" 4. the action or act of pulling something along, especially a vehicle or farm implement. 5. a written order to pay a specified sum; a check. 6. a single act of drinking or inhaling. "she downed the remaining beer in one draft" Similar: gulp drink swallow mouthful swig swill slug chug the amount swallowed or inhaled in a single act of drinking or inhaling. "he took deep drafts of oxygen into his lungs" 7. the depth of water needed to float a ship. "the shallow draft enabled her to get close to shore" 8. the drawing in of a fishing net. the fish taken at one drawing; a catch.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

😆. Yes, that's all correct to the word but the amount of effort you put in..... 👍🐶

[@omega4chimp]

You need food recycling in deserts and put make like compost in the desert.

[@ricardomarcenaro]

It will remain in the memory of world history as a stain that the British government freed Pinochet by allowing him to return to Chile when he was in London and was required by the international court to try him for the crimes of genocide. Thatcher said they were not going to hand over someone who had collaborated with the British during the Falklands war.

[@easyrider4032]

😮 Chile's Atacama Desert driest place on earth but the richest source of H3 Helium 3, the best source of cleanest nuclear fuel zero radiation that powers the stars cleanest and the power source of UFO Flying Saucers, Key to Super Crafts, Most Powerful Weapons that could ever be built...found in the Moon's Surface and all over in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth.😊

[@geetbhagwat9902]

POOR PEOPLE ONLY BELIEVE IN GOD. IN INDIA GOD IS RICH PEOPLE BUSINESS ...

[@lesliejanicke2250]

We search for another Earth yet maybe what is out there on another planet mite be totally different or opposite so why does everyone want to look for a planet just like Earth?

[@Von199X]

They are making artificial rain in Dubai why can't they do that there?

[@pam4840]

Money😂

[@themadcollecter4988]

Politics & money

[@philippe7171]

The desert is a very unique ecosystem. Making it rain you would erode the soil, carrying minerals to the ocean wich possibly feeds Harmful Algal bloom. Besides, Atacama desert got an extraordinary event called Desierto Florido or "Flowery Desert", where lots of endemic species of flora sprout everywhere. If you make it rain, you would disturb this natural cycle. Additionally, houses in these regions are not prepared for rain, it's catastrophic when it rains. so, worst idea.

[@mauricioleivab5781]

That and in the Atacama it could only be used really close to the coast, because in the interior of the desert you can find only 2% of humistry, which is too low to produce even artificial rain

[@silfawai1535]

Leave other planets ALONE" LOOK AFTER THE ONE YOU HAVE!!🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[@comerciallm1088]

A very bad documentary. And the big cities in the Atacama desert? Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, Copiapó? 1 million people lives in those cities in the desert. Why don't those cities show? Is it because they are modern cities with all the services such as airports, universities, shopping centers, tourism, hotels, research centers, connectivity and people with a good quality of life? the documentary does not show the Atacama desert, life there is much more than that.

[@victorlagunda2454]

Because of politics my friend from the west

[@GreenOrchid9]

Necessity is the MOTHER of invention🤔poverty is BiG business✔🎶🌴 these people manage and is creAtive with what they got🤕🌴🌅😷

[@SumanKumar-iy7tp]

Human greed will torcher poor beings for long time. Poor will enjoy life, money gatherers can't eat at their wish , will die as per the rules established mother earth will never remember these bastered.

[@Sternodox]

We're destroying the planet and killing millions with industrial pollution, but at least we have lithium for our cell phone batteries, because posting stuff to Instagram is, like, SO IMPORTANT, man.

[@OzieeMate]

What a man made disaster to fulfil their greed!

[@thefool1086]

?

[@stephenenders2066]

Aliens own society 🦎⚕👽♟👀🤷‍♀️🙄

[@ranjittyagi9354]

I must stop the documentary at Mario. Thank you General Pinochet. Thank you, indeed.

[@ionidhunedoara1491]

Did the alcaldia of the neighboring village sell away their water rights?

[@mushmax96]

Nonsense

[@Slinkylabcat]

That's rough stuff. It's like the moon there. See, I'm from Connecticut. The nutmeg state. If it doesn't precipitate here, I reach for my gun.

[@mtksbctk]

Calm down American

[@Slinkylabcat]

@@mtksbctk This is as calm as I get. What're you, French?

[@pam4840]

I pray climate change bring moisture there. Anyways it cannot get any worse.

[@belindaclark1454]

Please make it a drought rather..

[@robbinghook3571]

Aren't human really stupid?

[@MotorShowByBQ]

This is where NASA lie that they have landed their research rovers to Mars when actually they are in Atacama desert

[@sreenasuresh346]

How you know please tell me ?

[@lescoe]

Go smoke some more weed bro.

[@sreenasuresh346]

@@lescoe it's better you should take it first 😅😅😅😅😅

[@jafferleibiofficial8587]

Sad to know about the deaths and murders that took place in 1973 to 1974 coup. Totally brutal..my sympathy with the families who last their dearest ones to the army coup.