The chief of the Chilean Tourism Service, Oscar Santelices, said a formal letter will be directed following week to the France-based rally organizer Amaury Sports Organization stating Chile's interest to host it.
Santelices assured local media, even so, that no financial support would be charged.
Chile's deputy sports minister, Jaime Pizarro, as well said the authorities would be interested because "the idea appears on the line with the official policy of hosting important international sports events."
The reaction in Chile came after the Spanish sports newspaper As reported that South America was being viewed instead to the African territory, and that the epic motorcycle, car and truck race, presented each year since 1979, may cross through Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
In Chile, the rally would go across the northern Atacama desert, the world's driest, where a local rally known as Patagonia-Atacama is staged annually.
Local media reported that over the Andes in Argentina, organizers of the annual Rally of the Pampas are as well interested in hosting a part from the Dakar Rally.
Carlo De Gavardo, a Chilean motorcycle rider who has competed in the Dakar Rally a few times, told a major advantage for South American lands hosting the rally is the security they offer in the territories where the race would be staged.
He said a conclusion on the new situation would probably be made in February, and that other likely choices are Australia, Russia and China.
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