atacama desert in English

noun
1
an arid region in western Chile that extends roughly 600 miles (965 km) south from the Peruvian border.

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1. The Atacama Desert became economically important.

2. Favorite Add to Meteorite slice - Chondrite meteorite from Atacama Desert Chili Mobsproject

3. The reason that Arica is so dry is its proximity to the Atacama Desert

4. It hasn't rained in Chile in the Atacama Desert for 400 years, but there is a place drier than that.

5. The town is surrounded by the Atacama Desert and receives 12 mm (1⁄2 in) of rain per year.

6. The Andes stretch through Mendoza and into the Atacama Desert, a place that might hold some answers to the lingering questions of humankind's origin

7. The reason why you have to build these telescopes in places like the Atacama Desert is because of the high altitude desert.

8. A desert especially rich in mineral salts is the Atacama Desert, Chile, where sodium nitrate has been mined for explosives and fertilizer since around 1850.

9. The Andean region cuts across several natural and floristic regions due to its extension from Caribbean Venezuela to cold, windy and wet Cape Horn passing through the hyperarid Atacama Desert.

10. Another place to visit in the Andes Mountains Chile is the El Tatio Geyser Field, known locally as Los Géiseres del Tatio.Located in the northern part of the Andes in Chile, this is commonly visited by tourists to the nearby Atacama Desert and San Pedro de Atacama