2013 Dakar Rally Running From Peru to Chile

The organizers of the Dakar rally announced that the 2013 edition of the rally will stay in South America for the fifth year and run from Lima, Peru, to Santiago, Chile.

The rally will run from January 5 to January 20, 2013, and it will be the first time in the rally's history that it will begin in the desert. 

"The three biggest Spanish-speaking countries in the world will be visited in a fresh order. Peru, Argentina and Chile, explored on a north to south journey, will offer the Dakar a different angle of attack on the Pacific Coast, the Atacama's dunes and the Andes Mountains. Far from a ride along the coast between Lima and Santiago, the sequence of difficulties that we are planning promises to provide a scorching racing scenario," said Dakar Director Etienne Lavigne.

Source: Autosport