Most studies that reconstruct the climatic conditions of the past centuries to millennia tend to focus on the northern hemisphere. But now an intriguing multicentennial record of temperature and precipitation in southern South America is available. Raphael Neukom and Jürg Luterbacher of the PAGES LOTRED-SA Working Group elaborate on its significance for the IGBP Global Change Magazine. This article arose from the PAGES LOTRED South America initiative.