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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long (1,000-mile) strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km 2 (41,000 sq mi), [2] which increases to 128,000 km 2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.
The regional capital Copiapó is located 806 km (501 mi) north of the country's capital of Santiago. The region occupies the southern portion of the Atacama Desert, the rest of the desert is mainly distributed among the other regions of Norte Grande.
Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra ... Atacama Desert: Mild coastal: 140,000 [5] 54,054: South America: Chile and Peru: 26:
The Atacama Desert is known as the Disierto Florida (the “flowering desert”) because every few years it’s blanketed with flowers, when the right levels of rainfall and temperature coincide ...
Sechura Desert in Peru. Atacama Desert – a desert in Chile and Peru; La Guajira Desert – a desert in Colombia and Venezuela; Monte Desert – in Argentina, a smaller desert above the Patagonian Desert; Patagonian Desert – the largest desert in the Americas, located in Argentina; Sechura Desert – a desert located south of the Piura ...
Located on the west coast of South America, Chile has a total area of 756,102 km 2. [35] There are four climates that separate Chile. One of these climates is the dry climate. This is located the north above Santiago, the Atacama Desert has temperatures of up to 90 °F. The central part of Chile has a warmer climate that reaches up to 82.4 °F.
Located in the Atacama Desert, it was a production hub for saltpeter, a substance used in gunpowder and fertilizer known as "white gold." After World War I, the industry began to crumble and the ...
Because of the Atacama desert, in the Norte Grande there are only short endorheic character streams, except for the Loa River, the longest in the country 440 km. [103] In the high valleys, wetland areas generate Chungará Lake, located at 4500 meters above sea level.