Atacama Desert
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| Area | 105000 |
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| Did you know | The Atacama is the world's largest reservoir of sodium nitrate. |
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| ID | 762509 |
About Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1000-km strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is one of the driest places in the world, as well as the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts.
The hunt for a new way to tackle clothing waste
...By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter Earlier this year, a satellite photo of a mountain of discarded clothes in Chile s Atacama Desert went viral...
Chile volcano: Alert issued after Lascar rumbles to life
... Lascar, in the north of the country, is 70km from San Pedro de Atacama, a popular tourist destination for trekking and visits to the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth...
Body found in search for University of Warwick professor
... His body was found about 5km (three miles) from the observatory in the country s Atacama Desert, police said...
Venezuelan migrants seeking a new home in Chile
... Facing a growing anti-migrant sentiment, the BBC followed a group of Venezuelans as they made their way through the Atacama Desert to reach the capital Santiago...
Living with the world's oldest mummies
... Arica, on the border with Peru, is built on the sandy dunes of the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world...
How Elon Musk wants a battery technology to revolutionize
... And at a significantly lower altitude, the Chileans can natural evaporation to crystallize the salts, especially due to the intense sun of the Atacama Desert...
The farmers who worry about our phone batteries
... The [current] level of water extraction is causing real harm to the ecosystem and nearby communities, says Gonzalo Pimentel of the Atacama Desert Foundation, a non-profit institution supporting local communities...
Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
... Most of the stars were identified by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in Chile s southern Atacama Desert...
Atacama Desert Photos
