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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...
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    southern portion of the Atacama Desert, the rest of the desert is mainly distributed among the other regions of Norte Grande. The Atacama Region is the third...
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    -69.63306 The Atacama Giant (Spanish: Gigante de Atacama) is an anthropomorphic geoglyph on the Cerro Unitas area of the Atacama Desert, Chile. At about...
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  • Wikinews has related news: Robot Zoë finds life in Atacama Desert, using skills as needed on Mars Zoë is a solar-powered autonomous robot with sensors...
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  • Atacama desert glass is an impactite found in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The event was approximately 12,000 years ago; traces of chondrites suggest a...
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    The Atacama Desert border dispute was a dispute between Bolivia and Chile from 1825 to 1879 for the territories of the Atacama Coast due to the different...
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    The Atacama people, also called Atacameño, are an Indigenous people from the Atacama Desert and altiplano region in the north of Chile and Argentina and...
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    proliferation of insects, birds and small species of lizards. In the Atacama Desert, a desert bloom (Spanish: desierto florido) occurs between the months of...
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    Pedro de Atacama Llamas in the sunset near San Pedro de Atacama Part of the Chaxas lagoon in the Salar de Atacama. Rainbow Valley. Atacama Desert Puna de...
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  • human fetus found in 2003 in the Chilean ghost town of La Noria, in the Atacama Desert. DNA analysis done in 2018 on the premature human fetus identified unusual...
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    The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile...
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    of mineral transformation. Atacama desert glass – Desert glass found in the Atacama Desert Darwin glass – Natural desert glass found in Tasmania Edeowie...
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    Sahara desert, Grand Australian Desert and the Great Basin Desert, occur in low altitudes. One of the driest places on Earth is the Atacama Desert. It is...
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    Namib (redirect from Namib desert)
    regions, with only western South America's Atacama Desert to challenge it for age and aridity benchmarks. The desert geology consists of sand seas near the...
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    as the Atacama Department and commonly known as the Bolivian coast, was the description of the extent of the Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert included...
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    the Puna de Atacama dispute. Of the 75,000 km2 in dispute, 64,000 (85%) were awarded to Argentina and 11,000 (15%) to Chile. Atacama Desert Altiplano Altiplano–Puna...
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    The delineations between the Monte Desert, the Atacama Desert, and the Patagonian Desert are not exact and the desert seems to be more-or-less continuous...
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    the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the average annual rainfall over 17 years was only 5 millimetres (0.20 in). Some locations in the Sahara Desert such...
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    Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru; the Baja California desert of Mexico; the Namib Desert in Namibia; the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert;...
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    (1996). Desert Geomorphology (2nd ed.). London: UCL Press. p. 442. ISBN 1-85728-017-2. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sechura Desert. Atacama–Sechura...
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  • Mano del Desierto is a large-scale sculpture of a hand located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, about 60 km to the south and east of the city of Antofagasta...
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  • duo head across the Atacama Desert towards the border at Portezuelo del Cajón with Bolivia, stopping to admire the Salar de Atacama and the Licancabur...
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    live in the Atacama Desert, where in some areas it has not rained for over 50 years. A mountainous coastline running parallel to the desert enables them...
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    regions. It is characterized by the presence of the Atacama desert, the most arid in the world. The desert is fragmented by streams that originate in the area...
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    September 15, 2018, Graglia started the ultramarathon across Chile's Atacama Desert. The translation company TransPerfect sponsored his run. Following the...
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    had a specialized robot named Nomad travel through a portion of the Atacama Desert. During this expedition, Nomad travelled over 200 kilometers and provided...
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    was first described for deposits in the Atacama Desert of Chile in 1802 by Dmitri de Gallitzin. The Atacama Desert is also the namesake of the mineral. Atacamite...
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    at 6,962 m or 22,841 ft); the driest non-polar place on earth, the Atacama Desert; the wettest place on earth, López de Micay in Colombia; the largest...
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    Salar de Atacama, located 55 km (34 mi) south of San Pedro de Atacama, is the largest salt flat in Chile. It is surrounded by mountains and lacks drainage...
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    Pacific coast, west of the Pampa del Tamarugal, which is part of the Atacama Desert. It has a population of 191,468 according to the 2017 census. It is...
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