Paddling near Vallenar, Atacama
Vallenar sits in the Atacama Region's Huasco Valley, where the Río Huasco and its tributaries cut through one of the driest landscapes in Chile. The most accessible flatwater paddling near the city is Embalse Santa Juana, a reservoir roughly 16 km away that provides calm conditions suited to kayaking and SUP on an otherwise arid stretch of the Atacama interior.
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