R. P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological Museum
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R. P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological Museum is a museum located in San Pedro de Atacama
, Chile
. It houses a collection of about 380,000 pre-Columbian
artifact
s from the Atacameño
culture. The museum is named after Jesuit missionary Father Gustavo Le Paige, who was its founder.
This museum belongs to the Catholic University of the North.
San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region. It is located east of Antofagasta, some 106 km southeast of Calama and the Chuquicamata copper mine, overlooking the Licancabur volcano. It features a significant archeological museum, the R. P...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
. It houses a collection of about 380,000 pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian
The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...
artifact
Artifact (archaeology)
An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest"...
s from the Atacameño
Atacameño
The Atacameños are a Native American people who inhabited the Andean portion of the Atacama Desert, mainly in what is today Chile's Antofagasta Region. Their language is known as Kunza....
culture. The museum is named after Jesuit missionary Father Gustavo Le Paige, who was its founder.
This museum belongs to the Catholic University of the North.