Castillo mountain range and Ibanez River wide valley viewed from the Pan-American Highway, Aysen Region, Patagonia, Chile, South America

Castillo mountain range and Ibanez River wide valley viewed from the Pan-American Highway, Aysen Region, Patagonia, Chile, South America

Castillo mountain range and Ibanez River wide valley viewed from the Pan-American Highway, Aysen Region, Patagonia, Chile, South America

Castillo mountain range and Ibanez River wide valley viewed from the Pan-American Highway, Aysen Region, Patagonia, Chile, South America

Arturo Prat Chacon Statue, Cochrane village, Pan-American Highway, Aysen Region, Patagonia, Chile, South America

Flags and statuary decorate a colorful roadside altar in a desolate region of northern Chile. Shrines or animitas are a common tradition of memorials that mark the site where someone died. People who are not related to the person who was killed can offer a prayer at the animita, in this way, animitas can take the roles of popular saints in the Catholic religion, Pan American Highway, Chile

The Pan American Highway is an empty, lonely, desolate road as it runs along Peru's Pacific Desert Coast along the ocean for hundreds of miles, Near Chala, Peru