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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.
It is one of the driest places on Earth, [2] though there are several anecdotal accounts of rainfall within the Dry Valleys. [3] [4] The region is one of the world's most extreme deserts, and includes many features including Lake Vida, a saline lake, and the Onyx River, a meltwater stream and Antarctica's longest river.
Dasht-e Lut is one of the largest of these desert basins, 480 kilometers (300 mi) long and 320 kilometers (200 mi) wide, [11] and is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth. [12] [13] [14] The area of the desert is about 51,800 square kilometres (20,000 sq mi), [15] the largest in Iran after Dasht-e Kavir.
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Arica is also known as the driest inhabited place on Earth, at least as measured by rainfall: average annual precipitation is 0.76 mm (0.03 inches), as measured at the airport meteorological station. [ 16 ]
Atacama, the world's driest non-polar desert, part of the Arid Diagonal of South America. One of the driest places on Earth is the Atacama Desert. [13] [14] [15] ...
The Atacama desert is also considered one of the driest places on earth, as some areas have not received a single drop of rain in hundreds of years. [2] A prototype for a Mars rover was tested there by scientists because of the valley's dry and forbidding terrains. [3]
Tourists enjoy the rare opportunity to walk in water as they visit Badwater Basin, normally the driest place in the U.S., in Death Valley National Park, California on Feb. 19, 2024. Badwater Basin ...