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The geography of Chile is extremely diverse, as the country extends from a latitude of 17° South to Cape Horn at 56° and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Andes in the east. Chile is situated in southern South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean and a small part of the South Atlantic Ocean. Chile's territorial shape is ...
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.
1.6 Deserts and xeric shrublands. 2 Freshwater ecoregions. ... The following is a list of ecoregions in Chile as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The flora and fauna of Chile are characterized by a high degree of endemism, due to its particular geography. In continental Chile, the Atacama Desert in the north and the Andes mountains to the east are barriers that have led to the isolation of flora and fauna. Add to that the enormous length of Chile (over 4,300 km (2,672 mi)) and this ...
The Deserts of Chile. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A. Atacama Desert (2 C, 67 P) Pages in category "Deserts of Chile"
STORY: This is Chile's new Desert Blooming National ParkLocation: Atacama Desert, Chile(Gabriel Boric, President of Chile) "For us, creating the Desert Blooming National Park is a way to move ...
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 . Subcategories
Torres del Paine National Park is part of the Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado de Chile (National System of Protected Forested Areas of Chile). In 2013, it measured approximately 181,414 hectares (700 sq mi). [1] It is one of the largest and most visited parks in Chile.