Today we suggested a trip to them that promises to be exciting, we submerged in the rest of another time, in a place where it seems that the clock has been stopped and in which many witnesses affirm that events happen paranormal, travel with us and know better Humberstone.

The salitreras offices of Humberstone and Santa Laura are two old salitreras, left at present, located offices in Chile. Located to 48 kilometers to the east of the city of Iquique, they are historical monuments and, from the 25 of 2005 July, they are Patrimonies of the Humanity of UNESCO and are including in the List of the Patrimony of the Humanity in danger.

Numerous legend and stories of ghostly appearances, psicofonías exist and other events paranormal in these towns ghost that were left 50 years ago and in which still the vestiges can be found on how it was lived in those years. Without a doubt one is a trip to the past in which we can be submerged at the time at which thousands of workers left their lives in these places.

The company of nitrate extraction of Guillermo Wendell founded, in 1872, the salitrera office of Santa Laura. His proprietor the Limean Abraham Guillermo Wendell Tizon obtained in concession of 100 stakes of the government of Peru to operate in Cove Cove and other zones. That same year, James Thomas Humberstone creates the Nitrate Company of Peru, founding the Office the Palm. Both offices quickly begin a fast growth, becoming bullantes towns characterized by beautiful architectonic works of English classic style.

The Palm becomes one of the majors extractors of saltpeter of all the zone of Tarapacá; on the contrary, Santa Laura works partially due to low productive expectations, reason why in 1902 she happens at the hands of The New Tamarugal Nitrate Company. In 1913, Santa Laura paralyzes her works until the system of Shanks extraction is implemented that improves the yields of the office.

Nevertheless, the economic model colapsa with the Great Depression in 1929 and because of the development of the synthetic ammonia production by the Germans Fritz To have and Carl Bosch whom the industrial fertilizer production allows. Practically in bankruptcy, the Palm and Santa Laura are bought by Cosatan (Company Salitrera de Tarapacá and Antofagasta) in 1934. Cosatan, in honor to its founder, renombra to the Palm like Office Santiago Humberstone. The company is pawned on obtaining that the natural saltpeter can compete in the international markets reason why develops a plan of modernization in Humberstone that allows that it becomes the most successful office until 1940 when obtains its period of maximum splendor.

With happening of the years, the era sea bream of Humberstone is begun to extinguish quickly, taking to an acute crisis to COSATAN, the one that takes to their disappearance in 1958 and the abandonment of both offices in 1960. In 1970, turned into two ghost towns in the middle of the desert of Atacama, monuments are named national and begin to be exhibited tourists. In 2005 they are declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO.

We left two videos you of the present state of Humberstone, where it sees can see his present state perfectly and that they invite much to the traveller to visit. A picture of another full time of mysteries and strange events:

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