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Argentina can be reached by Paso Agua Negra (4775 m), on a fully-paved road up to Rivadavia, then partly-paved.
== South towards Santiago (Ruta 5) ==
Take a bus going to Coquimbo which can be caught anywhere along Ruta 5. Cost is 600 pesos or less depending on what poInt of the city you board.
You could then probably catch another local bus to take you further along Ruta 5 as there are more bus stops, or you can just start walking (roughly 4.5 kilometers from the Lider).
You will see a couple decent sized pull offs which are bus stops but don't stop there. Keep going until the road begins to go straight uphill for a ways. At the top of this hill there is massive amounts of space for cars and trucks to stop and some will already be going a bit slower having just climbed the long hill. Also it appears that several trucks stop here anyways for various reasons.
== North towards [[Antofagasta]] (Ruta 5) ==
Ruta 5 goes right through the heart of the city, many vehicles, especially trucks, don't stop here and go north.
One option is to start hitchhiking right at the street light in the center (crossroads between Ruta 5 and Ruta 41, next to the mall). It's not really optimal because of the amount of cars not going further north but you have other options:
- there's a Copec service station about 7 km North of the center.
- the "real" entrance to ruta 5, this is where you will get all (and only) the traffic going north (-29.88651, -71.25446). In July 2023 a lot of this path was in construction (and it seems that it will stay that way for a while). The cars and trucks go slow and have a lot of space to stop.
== Accommodation and Sleep ==
There are gas stations next to the bus terminal which tolerate camping hitchhikers. Alternatively, hitchwiki user Eristoff had some success sleeping on the dry river bed of Rio Elqui (from "Plaza de Armas", face the church and go left, you will find it in about 700m).
West of the main mall you also have lots of fields (a lot of them are fenced but there are a few openings).
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