I people wonder why paper maps still exist :-)

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Yes Camomillo, certainly true that ioverlander info is only as good as overlanders can be bothered providing, but at least using the app you can quickly see who has checked in and more important, when they checked in.
As always the trouble is these sort of places go out of business at a great rate or go from reasonable to a grubby ruin in a couple of weeks and it is fairly common for a place to get a good write up one day, and a week later get marked as closed.
I found the same problem with campgrounds written up in official Chile tourist info.
Good luck with your search.


The other problem you will have - as I know from first hand experience from north Chile right down as far as you can drive - is that as you would expect, the number of campgrounds is going to be in proportion to the number of people and towns in a particular area and inversely proportional to the distance from major population areas. So to expect hundreds of highly sophisticated campgrounds in the top or bottom 1/3 of Chile is just unreasonable. However, as an example from Arica in the north to 100km north of the capital there are 42 entries described as established campgrounds and which have been visited in the last 12 months and most within 6 months plus obviously an equal number of lesser places, and more importantly for bikers after a hard days ride through the dryest hottest desert in the world, a heap of hostals which seem to be the preferred lodgings of bikers, especially if they offer a bit of security for the bike. Not 5 star of course but 1 star sans bedbugs will often be welcome
Look at the map of that area, you can see there aren't many large towns or even villages so can't expect many fancy campgrounds either.

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