By Corey Sandler
We’ve arrived at the waist of Chile, the slimmest part of the long and narrow nation.
The name Coquimbo comes from a Diaguita word meaning ‘place of calm waters’.
And when the naturalist Charles Darwin arrived in 1835, after his visit to Tierra del Fuego and just before his historic visit to the Galapago Islands, he wrote that the small town was “remarkable for nothing but its extreme quietness.”
Therefore it makes perfect sense that Coquimbo quietly merges with a neighboring city along the coast: La Serena.
Serena, as an adjective, means serene. As a noun, it refers to the soft evening dew.
Quiet, calm, and serene—with the exception of a long-ago history of pirates, and an everyday concern about an active earthquake fault.
SUNSHINE ON COQUIMBO
ABELONE AND FRESH FISH
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