LA VERTIENTE
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LA VERTIENTE Book 1
5 parts · 9 h 20 min
The Atacama, 2025. The Larrechea family has held a valley in the high desert since the nitrate collapse and runs a copper mine and a lithium joint venture from a tower in Santiago, and the water all of it depends on belongs personally to one woman.
LA VERTIENTE Book 2
5 parts · 13 h 8 min
The Atacama, 2026. An independent gauging confirms that the spring feeding a valley of six hundred and forty people is falling faster every year, and the family that registered its water in 1982 must now sell, expand or wait.
LA VERTIENTE Book 3
5 parts · 9 h 5 min
The Atacama, 2026. A copper and lithium family is losing an argument about water it has owned since 1982, and its eldest son petitions a court to declare his own brother incapable of administering his property, because a brother without a vote cannot block a sale.
LA VERTIENTE Book 4
5 parts · 9 h 7 min
The Atacama, 2027. A dead man's proceeding is served on the family at his own wake, and the fifteen percent he owned passes to a twenty-six-year-old process engineer who is an Arancibia as well as a Larrechea.