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    The Desert Speaks
            Argentina: Ancient Patagonia People
                
                    
                        
                            Season 17
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 1713
                        
                    
                
            
            
            The travelers stop at the Cuerva de los Manos, where the famous stenciled handprints were created by blowing through a straw-like instrument filled with paint. Visit a site currently being excavated and offering evidence that people inhabited Patagonia possibly as long as 12,000 years ago. The trip also includes a visit to some of the little ranches and sheep herding gauchos.
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            In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            We trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert into the Andes.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Venture across the spectacular and colorful Argentine Patagonia.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Tracing the San Andreas Fault.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Exploring the isolated ecosystem of Catalina Island.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Travel along the coastline of Espiritu Santo Island with host David Yetman.
        
        
    
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            The famed Sea of Cortez boasts the greatest marine diversity in the world.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Travel with host David Yetman through the Patagonia landscape.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Trace the Rio San Miguel through Sonora, Mexico.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            Travel around Chihuahua, Mexico with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Jesus Garcia