LAS GAVIOTAS, Colombia — In the 1960s, an aristocratic Colombian development specialist named Paolo Lugari took a road trip across these nearly uninhabited eastern plains, a region so remote and poor in soil quality that not even Colombia's historic upheavals of violence had taken root here at the time.
The mine's obsessive rectitude, amid the nearly uninhabited high grassy plains and snow-capped mountains of southeastern Peru, is as anomalous as a moon colony in a science-fiction story.
Even so, when a plain, white uninhabited ranch house appeared over the winter on a dirt patch in a neighborhood near downtown, across from a veterans' hospital, people were at a loss as to its purpose.
During the summer driving is possible on the extensive sandy plains in the uninhabited interior, permitting expeditions between the glaciers.
The coastal areas & the plains had remained largely uninhabited for centuries.
Until the 1960s it was thought that, apart from the coastal plain of Cilicia, Anatolia had remained uninhabited until the beginning of the Chalcolithic Period.
These tribes lived mostly in the natural fortresses provided by the hills, and the central plain of the Plateau was largely uninhabited.
The Wayuu villages are small and densely populated but surrounded by vast uninhabited spaces, mainly of hard, barren, and sunbaked plains, and Gallego and Guerra film the landscapes with a contemplative curiosity and a probing concentration that are also dramatically incisive, even gripping.
He also campaigned far to the south of the Asturian mountains, but lack of manpower made it impossible to exert permanent control on the plains and, in his time, a wide, largely uninhabited no-man's-land came into being between Asturias and the settled territories of the emirate of Córdoba.
THE last great work of 20th-century American art has just been finished in this cattle town, a tumbleweed-tossed speck in the high desert plain near the Mexican border known here as "el despoblado," the uninhabited place, 200 miles southeast of El Paso.
