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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.
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. ... Argentina and Chile: 9: Syrian Desert: Subtropical: 500,000 [5] 193,051: Western Asia:
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).
Much of the region is desert, and encompasses considerable mineral resources. [5] Numerous flora and fauna species are found in the Atacama Region. One subspecies of the lesser rhea, known by the scientific name Rhea pennata tarapacensis, is a notable large terrestrial bird in this region, which subspecies is considered endangered.
Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of San Pedro de Atacama, in the north of Chile in the Cordillera de la Sal, in the Atacama Desert. It has various stone and sand formations which have been carved by wind and water.
Topographic map of Chile. Chile is located along a highly seismic and volcanic zone, ... the desert provinces of the north, central Chile, and the humid regions of ...
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 ...
The city developed during the heyday of the saltpetre mining in the Atacama Desert in the 19th century. Once a Peruvian city with a large Chilean population, it was conquered by Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879–1883). Today it is one of only two free ports of Chile, the other one being Punta Arenas, in the country's far south.