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Are the Atacama Desert and the Peruvian Desert combined larger or smaller than the Patagonian Desert?
They are smaller than the Patagonian Desert.
Is the Chihuahuan Desert the largest desert in North America?
Scientists disagree, depending upon where the desert boundaries are drawn. Some say the Great Basin Desert is larger than the Chihuahuan Desert.
What is the difference between the Gobi Desert and the Atacama Desert?
The Patagonian Desert (260,000 square miles) is much larger than the Atacama Desert (54,000 square miles).
Which is the coldest - the Sahara or the Gobi?
The Sahara Desert is hotter than the Atacama Desert, it's larger than the Atacama Desert and it has more life, but the Atacama Desert is much drier. The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, with an average of less than a millimetre of the rain.
What is the difference between the Simpson Desert and the Atacama Desert?
The Atacama Desert is a cold desert while the Simpson is a hot desert. The Simpson has more rainfall and, thus, more vegetation and animal life than the Atacama.
Which desert is the largest in North America?
The largest desert is the Great Basin Desert, which is about 42,000 km2 larger than the second largest, the Chihauhaun Desert.The largest desert in North America is the Great Basin Desert.The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America.
What is dryer Atacama or Sahara?
The Atacama Desert is dryer than the Sahara Desert. The Atacama is considered the driest desert in the world, receiving very minimal precipitation, while the Sahara does receive occasional rainfall in some regions.
Which is the biggest desert in Texas?
You mean desert as in arid region? Or dessert as in sweet food? Most famous desert in Mexico is the Sonoran desert, covering the northwestern quarter of Mexico's territory. The Most famous dessert is the vanilla flan.
Where is the Atacama Desert climate zone?
No, the Atacama Desert is a hot desert but has a more moderated climate in terms of temperatures due to a cold marine current called the Humboldt Current, which is well-known for his considerable cooling effect on the climate of the Chili and of the Peru. The Atacama Desert is cooler than other hot deserts in the world also due to his high elevation, which reduces temperatures (there are less air pressure) but makes larger diurnal temperature ranges. The Atacama Desert is classified as a hot desert, because he's located near the Tropic of the Capricorne, in a subtropical region.
What continent is hot and dry?
Antarctica. There is a desert drier than Australia which is the Atacama desert in Chile in South America but Antarctica can be much drier than the Atacama desert especially the Mc Murdo Dry Valleys
What is the name of the driest desert in the world?
The Atacama, a 966 km long plateau in South America, is considered to be the world's driest desert. It lies mostly within Chile and Peru west of the Andes Mountains. The Atacama is 50 times drier than Death Valley, in California.Antarctica is considered by many scientists as even drier that the Atacama Desert.The Antarctic and the Atacama Desert share that distinction.Atacama desert
Is the Atacama Desert the driest place on earth?
Technically, the Atacama is classified as a cold desert. In actuality, the climate is quite mild. The high temperature rarely rises above 80 degrees F and the low rarely drops below 32 degrees F. The temperature is moderated by the Atacama's close proximity to the Pacific Ocean.
