• The Atacama Experience is an album by French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty that was released in 2007. It reached number 24 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums...
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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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    The Atacama Region (Spanish: Región de Atacama, pronounced [ataˈkama]) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It comprises three provinces:...
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    San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region. It is located east of Antofagasta, some 106 km (60 mi) southeast...
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    Jean-Luc Ponty (category French expatriates in the United States)
    the U.S., Chile, Venezuela, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, The Middle East and India; they recorded a studio album called The Atacama Experience...
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    1978) The Viking (Pablo, 1983) Art of the Duo (Enja, 1993) With Jean-Luc Ponty Open Strings (MPS/BASF 1972) Ponty/Grappelli (America, 1973) The Atacama Experience...
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    Allan Holdsworth (category British expatriate musicians in the United States)
    Jean-Luc Ponty 1977: Enigmatic Ocean 1983: Individual Choice 2007: The Atacama Experience Bruford 1978: Feels Good to Me 1979: One of a Kind 1986: Master...
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  • French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 2003. Originally, the DVD with the concert performance in Warsaw, Poland was released. All songs by Jean-Luc...
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    and by the Chilean Coast Range. The cold Humboldt Current and the Pacific Anticyclone are essential to keep the dry climate of Atacama Desert. The average...
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    Namib (redirect from The Namib)
    be the oldest desert in the world and contains some of the world's driest regions, with only western South America's Atacama Desert to challenge it for...
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    Andes (redirect from The andes)
    climate are the salars of Atacama and Uyuni, the former being the largest source of lithium and the latter the world's largest reserve of the element. Early...
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    with the annual rainfall as high as 430 millimetres or 17 inches. Although no part of Earth is known for certain to be rainless, in the Atacama Desert...
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  • kilometres (5,000 miles) across places such as the Andes, the Atacama Desert, and the Amazon River Basin. The book has been described as a classic coming-of-age...
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    in the Atacama Desert, the war ended with victory for Chile, which gained a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia. The direct...
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    Chile (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    as the Altiplano or Puna de Atacama. The Far North is the area between the northern boundary of the country and the parallel 26° S, covering the first...
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    Norte Grande (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the Copiapó river, is extremely arid. It contains the Atacama Desert, one of the driest areas in the world; in certain sections, this desert does not register...
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    cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile....
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    with smaller numbers in the Arica-Parinacota and Tarapacá regions, and the Atacama people (Atacameños), who reside mainly in El Loa. A minority today within...
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    Desert (redirect from The Desert)
    039 in) per year. Some weather stations in the Atacama have never received rain. Evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall...
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    Antofagasta (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Carmen, to the east of the present Antofagasta. Agreed to form the "Sociedad Exploradora del Desierto de Atacama" (Explorer Society of Atacama Desert).[citation...
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    Humboldt Current (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    aridity of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and coastal areas of Peru and also of the aridity of southern Ecuador. Marine air is cooled by the current and...
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    The Atacama Crossing, established in 2004, a 250 km (155-mile) ultramarathon which takes place in the Atacama Desert, around San Pedro de Atacama, Chile...
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  • Meanings of minor-planet names: 8001–9000 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below...
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  • and Medrano will meet at a hotel in the Atacama Desert to finalize their agreement, and warns him to escape as the CIA's Special Activities Division arrives...
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    Deserts and xeric shrublands (category Flora of the California desert regions)
    endemism. The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant columnar cacti. Madagascar spiny forests Atacama Desert...
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    north of the larger Patagonian Desert, east of the Andes and west of the Sierra de Córdoba. The delineations between the Monte Desert, the Atacama Desert...
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  • Experiment, a scientific research satellite Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, a radio telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory R-23 (missile)...
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    South America (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    place on earth, the Atacama Desert; the wettest place on earth, López de Micay in Colombia; the largest rainforest, the Amazon rainforest; the highest capital...
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    Sahara (redirect from The Sahara)
    driest and the most nearly "rainless" place on the planet, rivaling the Atacama Desert, lying in Chile and Peru. The rainfall inhibition and the dissipation...
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    by the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile's vineyards are found along an 800-mile stretch of land from Atacama Region to the Bio-Bio...
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