In the driest desert in the world, there is a giant hand that is calling for help.

Growing up in the middle of the white sand of the driest desert in the world, the giant hand looks illusory and mysterious like "calling for help" .

Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile. It has completely contrasting terrains: hills full of rocks, volcanic rocks and many stretches of sand dunes create unique landscapes. Atacama is confirmed by Guinness as the driest desert in the world . If you come here in the summer, you may experience consequences such as broken hair and beard, cracked nails and toenails.

Atacama is a desert with an area of ​​181,300 km2, altitude 3,200 m above sea level.The desert was formed more than 25 million years ago in northern Chile and a small part in southern Peru, between the Pacific and the Andes.

Atacama is 75 km south of Antofagasta town.

In 1917, German archaeologist Max Uhle discovered that there was human life in the Atacama desert. They mainly rely on hunting, fishing and gathering.

However, this desert appears a raised hand that looks like the remnants of a forgotten civilization. In fact, this is the " La Mano del Desierto " (the hand of the desert), the 11-meter-tall statue that forms a giant hand emerging from the sand, built in the early 1980s and completed in 1992.

People also call this desert's hand with another name " Mano del Desierto ". The mysterious sculptures of sadness along this Pan-American highway like to remind tourists of the tragic reality of people.

The hand position on the Atacama desert appears on Google's satellite map.

This is the work of Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal, designed under the sponsorship of a local organization to commemorate the victims of torture and murder during the dictatorship in Chile.

With the image of a human hand, sculptor Mario Irarrázabal wants to remind people of different emotional states such as injustice, loneliness, compassion, and pain by the cruel torture. In addition, the author's intention is to design a sculpture with a giant size that highlights the weakness and helplessness of the human being.

Mano del Desierto "hand" is located at 1,100 m above sea level, about 75 km south of Antofagastak city of Chile. Sponsored by local organization Corporacion Pro Antofagasta, this sculpture was released to the public on March 28, 1992.

Mario Irarrázabal is a researcher of philosophy and art at the University of Notre Dame in India, and theology at the Italian Pontifica University. Like the famous British sculptor Antony Gormley, Irarrázabal used human form in many of his works.

His first sculptural work was exhibited in Chile in 1970. It was followed by a series of famous sculptures that were on the subject of humans, namely those that floated on the ground. The beach, the beach, the park, were released by Mario Irarrázabal later in different locations in different countries.

Hands in the sand in Maldonado, Uruguay.

For example, a hand in the sand at Punta del Este beach in Uruguay's famous resort town completed in 1982, a similar version in Madrid (Spain) was completed in 1987 and in Venice (Italy). ) completed in 1995 .