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Despite Chile's narrowness, some interior regions may experience wide temperature oscillations and cities such as Lonquimay, may even experience a continental climate. In the extreme northeast and southeast the border of Chile extends beyond the Andes into the Altiplano and the Patagonian plains, giving these regions climate patterns similar to ...
The heat wave was especially severe in northern Argentina and Chile, along neighboring areas in and around the Andes Mountains. Some locations set all-time heat records. [1] Several states also had the hottest September temperatures in history, often reaching more than 40°C. [2] In mid-July, Brazil began experiencing elevated temperatures.
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.
Chileans are bundling up with more clothes and clutching cups of hot coffee as the country faces the most intense cold snap in nearly 70 years, bringing winter weather in the middle of autumn ...
TIERRA DEL FUEGO, Chile — Glacial geologist Brenda Hall clambered up the side of a truck-sized, rain-slicked boulder in clothes soaked from a day hiking over forested ridges in the Patagonian ...
— In Chile, firefighters are battling huge forest fires stoked by hot and dry conditions. The fires are burning with the highest intensity around the city of Vina del Mar, where a famous ...
Chile, [a] officially the Republic of Chile, [b] is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica , stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean .
El Tatio lies in the municipality of Calama, [12] Antofagasta Province of northern Chile close to the border between Chile and Bolivia. [13] [b] The field is located 89–80 kilometres (55–50 mi) north of the town San Pedro de Atacama and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the town of Calama; [15] [16] Chile Route B-245 connects El Tatio to San Pedro de Atacama. [17]