Some spontaneous filmings with my photographic camera Nikon S4.
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IMPORTANT:
"Birds in Botija Valley".
(4,3 mb)

In Botija valley, 2ª región de Antofagasta. Enjoy the sound of Nature.
"Copiapoa decorticans - extreme!".
(8,5 mb)

Botija Valley, very steep!!.
"Copiapoa solaris".
(19,8 mb)

North of Botija Valley, near the coast, many plants still survive... but most of them are death.
"Eriosyce (thelocephala) kraussi".
(2,2 mb)

North of Caldera, near the beach. Absolutly covered by the sand.
"Fankhausecret 2".
(7,7 mb)

West of Domeyko, this is real rocky soils.
"Pacific Ocean".
(19,2 mb)

Noth of Huasco, near "3 playitas", enjoy the sound of the ocean... look the fog in the mountains!
"Maihueniopsis camachoi".
(6,0 mb)

East of San Pedro de Atacama, above 2.000 mt, Maihueniopsis camachoi with few flowers.
"Taltal cinereas".
(9,4 mb)

In Taltal the Queens are the Copiapoa cinerea.
"Taltal cinereas 2".
(6,7 mb)

Taltal, another walk between Copiapoa cinerea.
"Eulychnia, Taltal".
(4,1 mb)

In Taltal, some plants are dead and others still survive.
"Albispinas".
(14,1 mb)

Copiapoa cinerea "albispina" in Quebrada San Ramon, Taltal. (with some Eriosyce taltalensis "neohankeana").
"The Wall".
(7,4 mb)

Quebrada San Ramón, Taltal. Copiapoa krainziana, hanging in the wall...
"Los Andes".
(13,1 mb)

View of Los Andes mountains, near Santiago.
"Eriosyce aurata".
(10,9 mb)

Eriosyce aurata "forma mollensis" (Hoffmann). Near Hurtado, east of La Serena.
"Wasp".
(16,3 mb)

In Florencia's garden a wasp (Pepsis limbata) is taking a "mantis" to its secret places.
"longistaminizacion".
(6,3 mb)

A beautiful beetle, Brupestidae, possibly Ectinogonia darwinii, is feeding on a Copiapoa longistaminea, in Esmeralda.
"Goast".
(7,8 mb)

the public enemy...
"Camanchaca".
(4,2 mb)

In Paposo, in the middle of fog zone.
"Chloraea".
(4,2 mb)

In Los Andes, near San Gabriel, 1.500 mt. you can find Chloraea picta (C. disoides var. picta?). Very windy place!
"Gavilea".
(4,2 mb)

In the same mountain, in Los Andes, also lives Gavilea glandulifera.
"Camping in the top of the hill".
(14,4 mb)

East of Carrizal bajo, 1000 mt., camping and ejoying the mystic sunrise. The fog is retiring.

"cordilleras".
(15,7 mb)

In the same mountain, at 3pm there are not clouds...
"cima".
(15,4 mb)

In Esmeralda, in the top of a hill you can see Copiapoa cinerea ssp. columna-alba and C. longistaminea... be careful of falling!
"Swan".
(9,6 mb)

In Reserva Nacional Laguna de Torca you still can see pretty swan with black neck (Cygnus melancoryphus).
"Columnas".
(6,3 mb)

In the north side of Pan de Azucar National Park (north of Chañaral), you can see hundreds, maybe thousand of Copiapoa cinerea ssp. columna-alba.
"Columnas 2".
(7,8 mb)

Now they are millions of Copiapoa cinerea ssp. columna-alba, in some valleys near Esmeralda.
"Columnosis".
(9,1 mb)

Walking between columnas...
"skane".
(4,3 mb)

A small skane, north of Totoral near the coast.
"Dealbatas".
(4,8 mb)

Copiapoa dealbata, near the coast, in "Quebrada Mala", north of Huasco.
"desert".
(7,4 mb)

The road from Pan de Azucar National Park Nacional to pan-am highway...
"Fankhausecret".
(7,7 mb)

Eriosyce napina ssp. tenebrica "forma fankhauseri", very hide between rocks.
"walink in the Quebrada".
(21,9 mb)

Walking throughout the canyon ("quebrada"), east of Carrizal Bajo.
At the end a Eulychnia sp. with red parasits (Tristerix aphyllus).
"Thelocephala fulva".
(8,5 mb)

Eriosyce napina ssp. glabrescens "forma fulva", living in dry hills east of Totoral Bajo.
"GPS".
(3,0 mb)

help, help, I need help...
"Guanacos".
(9,9 mb)

The Guanacos (Lama guanicoe), living near the coast in the Llanos de Challe National Park, north of Huasco.
"Haseltoniana".
(7,0 mb)

Copiapoa cinerea ssp. haseltoniana, north of Paposo.
"Ants and spines".
(9,0 mb)

One ant in a rally through Eriosyce subgibbosa.¡Great adventure!
"Man from Huasco".
(4,4 mb)

A working man.
"Huasco".
(11,1 mb)

Near Huasco. Be careful again!
"La Portada de Antofagasta".
(7,0 mb)

Beautiful place in the coast of Antofagasta.
"Nigrihorrida".
(3,5 mb)

A beetle living inside a flower of Eriosyce subgibbosa ssp. nigrihorrida, in the coast of Totoralillo (south of Coquimbo).
"Palotes".
(9,3 mb)

2 "palotes" (Proscopidae) in Totoralillo, south of Coquimbo.
"Juncos".
(7,8 mb)

A walk through the grass, near Torca lake, Vichuquen.
"Quebrada Mala".
(23,9 mb)

A walk through "Quebrada Mala", north of Huasco.
"Quisco - Cresta".
(5,9 mb)

In Cajon del Maipo (Andes mountains), between the weeds we found a crested "quisco" (Echinopsis chiloensis).
"pulgones".
(7,2 mb)

Flowers of Eriosyce napina ssp. tenebrica (or Eriosyce napina ssp. riparia) visited by "pulgones" (aphid) and ants.
"Totoralillo".
(33,2 mb)

A walk in the beach of Totoralillo.
"Loros Tricahue".
(5,9 mb)

In the Andes mountains, near Monumento Nacional Pichasca still can be found some parrots "Tricahue" (Cyanoliseus patagonus).
"Trinar".
(4,4 mb)

In Los Hornos, north of La Serena, enjoy the songs of the birds...
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