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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.
Many years have no precipitation at all. The Atacama Desert of Chile is commonly known as the driest non-polar place in the world. [5] [6] Arica, Chile, in the middle portion of the coastal desert, went a record 173 months without measurable precipitation in the early 20th century. Occasional rainfall is caused by El Niño. For example, in ...
Atacama Desert — a large high altitude desert in the Atacama Region of northern Chile. It is a designated ecoregion of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome.
Salar de Tare, Atacama Desert. The reserve has a desert climate with the temperature varying dramatically between day (average temperature high is 25.3 °C (77.5 °F)) and night (average low is 3.7 °C (38.7 °F)). [6] Rain is more frequent in summer, with an average high of 3 millimeters.
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers.
Atacama Desert. From the wildlife angle, Chile in Southern South America stretches in a north–south direction, called the spine of South America, has terrestrial borders with Argentina and Peru, and has long coast line of 6,435 km (3,999 miles) on the South Pacific Ocean. The Atacama Desert is the most arid desert
The arid expanses of the Atacama and Sahara Deserts have an almost otherworldly aura. ... an unique ecosystem known for its extraordinary biodiversity. Strangler figs, oaks, bromeliads, orchids ...
The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant columnar cacti. [1] Madagascar spiny forests; Atacama Desert