Votive huts or what?

What are these little huts high up in the Atacama Desert in Chile in the middle of nowhere? For votive offerings? Or does someone have another explanation.

See in GM

pet graves (?!) - check cross at the grey doghouse by previous GMaps SV date! 

also another grave with cross next to the right - GMaps SV link - (no doghouse by this, only a stone stack)

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interesting spotting from such a remote and barren place!

Just have found on WeirdGE:


GMaps link >> -22.339163, -68.546135

And the 1 comment by someone with a promising name! (:

"Manuel Ignacio Sáez Zu-Dohna - September 30th, 2017 at 11:26 pm - one Comment - author #8754 on Smallest Church on the Planet by Weird Google Earth:

That is not a church, it is a little building (no more than 1 mt tall) called “animita”, some sort of tomb without a body that is raised up generally by the bereaved and that remembers the place where some loved one died (so it is not in the graveyard, but in the very site of the death).

Note that very close, near this thing, there is a road.

Probably this person died in a car crash or another event that happened in that road and his family put this “little church”, but the safe body was buried in a cemetery, cremated or arranged in some place permited by and as the law requires, cause

It is a very common tradition in Chile to build this “animitas” (generally decorated with Christian forms and symbols) when the death of someone has been tragic and or happens in a public place."

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Spanish wikipedia article for - Animita

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Same tradition here in Hungary - crosses and grave stones by the roads where someone died in accident ...

...or by suicide. (!?)
Also the trunk of the poplar tree can be seen on linked GMSV, which was hit by the young man (21) on the photo of the headboard. As the local legend says, it was suicide due to love grief. - R.I.P. young friend!