Parts of the Atacama Desert have been set aside as parks but the majority of the area is not in a park.
The large desert in northern Chile is the Atacama Desert. The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert in the world.
Desert National Park was created in 1992.
Yes it is located in the Atacama Desert.
The Atacama Desert is a cool, exceedingly dry desert.
The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile, southern Peru and small parts of Bolivia and Argentina.
The Atacama is a cold coastal desert.
No current passes through the Atacama Desert but the Humbolt, or Peruvian Current, passes just off shore and has a great influence on the climate of the Atacama.
Little Desert National Park was created in 1968.
The Atacama is a desert in northern Chile.
The coldest desert is the Patagonian Desert and the driest is the Atacama Desert.
Some of the natural features in Chile are the Andes mountains, the Atacama desert (the driest desert in the world) and "Torres del Paine" a national park with a glacier, a lake, forest and rivers areas in the South.
Both the Atacama Desert and the Antarctic Desert share the honor as the driest on earth. The Antarctic is a polar desert and the Atacama is a cool coastal desert - both classified as cold deserts.