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The Desert Speaks
Patagonia’s Cultural Trail: From the Coast to the Andes
Season 18
Episode 7
For 10,000 years people have called Patagonia Desert home, and they continue to do so to this day. In this episode, Host David Yetman, Argentine Archeologist María José Figuerero and native son of Patagonia, Harry Nauta trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert from the coastal city of Comodoro Rivadavia into the Andes, finally arriving at the border with Chile.
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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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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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Continue the journey through the gorgeously diverse Patagonia landscape.
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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