Arid and Semi Arid Development through Water Augmentation

Bus trip from Santiago Airport to Valparaiso bus terminal

The City of Valparaiso remains at 110 km or a 2 hour drive from Santiago de Chile Airport (“Arturo Merino Benitez”). As a result, a taxi drive will result too expensive for most participants. If you decide to take taxi, make sure you use an official taxi and pre-pay the ride if possible at the official taxi booth at the airport. Using the taximeter is an obligation in Chile, so it’s always a good idea to ask for “taxímetro”.

We do recommend, however, using the very reliable and safe public transport from the Airport to Valparaiso. There is no direct bus line between both points, so you need to change buses.
1) The fastest option is to take regular coach bus "Tur Bus" from the airport (frequency every 30 minutes) that takes you to the first stop on the line (aprox. 20 minutes), the metro station 'Pajaritos'. It has a small bus terminal where you can switch busses to Valparaiso (multiple bus companies leave for Valparaiso from here, you can take Tur Bus, Pullman or any other that goes to “Terminal de Buses de Valparaiso”).
2) The second option is to go to the main bus station in Santiago Centre and catch any bus for Valparaiso. You can do this by taking the “Tur Bus” coach bus that goes to “Tur Bus Terminal de Buses” (every 30 minutes). Its last stop is the bus terminal, from which you can take a “Tur Bus” coach to Valparaiso. (This option would be the preferred one for people who first want to visit Santiago City).

Once arriving at the bus terminal in Valparaiso, it's best to take a taxi to the hotel of choice, which is mostly not more than a 10-15 min drive.

Since the airport and bus stations are busy places, please beware of your luggage at all times.

For any problems, you can phone for any emergency (only emergencies!):
From a local phone booth: 09 90738297
From an international phone: 00 56 9 90738297

Within business hours, you can phone CAZALAC offices:
From a local phone booth: 051 204493
From an international phone: 00 56 51 204493

Safe travelling!

ASADWA Organizing Committee

Venue

The oral and poster sessions of the ASADWA International Conference will be held at the central dependencies of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, located in the heart of the city of Valparaiso, on a walking distance from the seaside and harbour, the downtown area, and all mayor landmarks (such as the house of the famous Chilean poet and Nobel prize winner for Literature, Pablo Neruda). For an overview of what the city has to offer, please visit the Valparaiso website.

Valparaiso, UNESCO World Herritage Site.

We have the honor to organize this conference in one of the few UNESCO World Herritage Sites that target the whole city center.The colonial city of Valparaíso presents an excellent example of late 19th-century urban and architectural development in Latin America. In its natural amphitheatre-like setting, the city is characterized by a vernacular urban fabric adapted to the hillsides that are dotted with a great variety of church spires. It contrasts with the geometrical layout utilized in the plain. The city has well preserved its interesting early industrial infrastructures, such as the numerous ‘elevators’ on the steep hillsides.

Valparaíso is an exceptional testimony to the early phase of globalisation in the late 19th century, when it became the leading merchant port on the sea routes of the Pacific coast of South America.

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