The Atacama is mostly a plateau between two mountain ranges.
Both the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert are high, desert plateaus.
The Andes form the eastern border of the Atacama Desert.
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The Atacama Desert gets its water from fog caught on nets.
Yes, the majority of the undeveloped land in the Atacama is government owned.
The large desert in northern Chile is the Atacama Desert. The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert in the world.
The desert receives virtually no rainfall which is needed for plants to flourish.
No snow cap forms.
The Andes Mountains are primarily responsible for the Atacama Desert. The mountains form a barrier to moisture from the Atlantic Ocean from crossing, forming a rain shadow desert.
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.