Abstract
The city of Iquique, located in the northern Chilean Region of Tarapaca, has been investigated in January-February 2012, by a joint Portuguese-Chilean team. The main aim of the fieldwork was the evaluation of the medicinal flora used by local residents, as an option or for having no access to conventional medicine. This research is part of an ongoing project developed in the Portuguese Tropical Institute of Lisbon from the end of last century onwards, aimed at assessing the weight of the native American species used in herbal remedies, all over Latin America. So far a total of ten cities have been researched in the New World, and Iquique has been selected to document the urban cultivation of healing plant species in a desert environment.
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