Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Get the Huasco, Atacama Region local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Get the Copiapo, Atacama Region local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Get the Tierra Amarilla, Atacama Region local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
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.
14 August 2009. Reference no. 1871 [3] Los Flamencos National Reserve is a nature reserve located in the commune of San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region of northern Chile. [4] The reserve covers a total area of 740 square kilometres (290 sq mi) in the Central Andean dry puna ecoregion [5] and consists of seven separate sections.
Desert climate. The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert climates are dry and hold little moisture, quickly evaporating the already little rainfall ...
Get the Copiapo Province, Atacama Region local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The cold Humboldt Current and the Pacific Anticyclone are essential to keep the dry climate of Atacama Desert. The average rainfall in the Chilean region of Antofagasta is just 1 mm per year. Some weather stations in the Atacama have never received rain. Evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to ...