Humberstone and Santa Laura works contain over 200 former saltpeter works where workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal pampinos culture. That culture is manifest in their rich language, creativity, and solidarity, and, above all, in their pioneering struggle for social justice, which had a profound impact on social history. Situated in the remote Pampas, one of the driest deserts on Earth, thousands of pampinos lived and worked in this hostile environment for over 60 years, from 1880, to process the largest deposit of saltpeter in the world, producing the fertilizer sodium nitrate that was to transform agricultural lands in North and South America, and in Europe, and produce great wealth for Chile. Because of the vulnerability of the structures and the impact of a recent earthquake, the site was also placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger to help mobilize resources for its conservation.
亨伯斯通和圣劳拉硝石采石场遗址由200多个以前的采矿点组成，来自智利、秘鲁和玻利维亚的工人就居住在企业生活区中，形成了独特的社区文化。这种文化体现于丰富的语言、创造力和团结力上，尤其是争取社会公正的先锋精神，这对社会历史有着深远的影响。此处遗址位于地球上最干燥的沙漠之一，偏远的潘帕沙漠地区(desert Pampa)。从1880年开始，成千上万名来自智利、秘鲁和玻利维亚的矿工就在这样恶劣的环境下生活和工作了60多年，开采世界上最大的硝石矿，生产化肥硝酸钠，用于改造北美洲和南美洲以及欧洲的农田，并为智利创造了巨大财富。由于这里的建筑物容易遭到破坏，最近又受到地震影响，这里已列入了《濒危世界遗产名录》，以便募集资源，对其实施保护。
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1178
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