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Both the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert are high, desert plateaus.
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Desert in Chile with some of the driest land on earth?
Africa
Is the Atacama Desert government-owned?
Yes, the majority of the undeveloped land in the Atacama is government owned.
What land form is the Atacama Desert?
The Atacama is mostly a plateau between two mountain ranges.
What is the land description of Atacama Desert?
It is composed mostly of dry salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava flows towards the Andes. It is quite barren.
Why is the Atacama Desert a barren land?
The desert receives virtually no rainfall which is needed for plants to flourish.
What is the length of the Atacama Desert?
The Atacama is a 1,000-kilometer (600 mile) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains.
What is a very dry land called?
A desert.
What is the land mass of Chile?
Some land features in Chile include the Atacama Desert and of course the Pacific Ocean. I know that there are more but I am not for sure on what they are called. Oh and the other one I know is the Andes Mountains.
Unlike lands near warm oceans currents lands near cold oceans currents may cool land dry the cold Peru current passes near the earths driest desert What is its name?
The answer is the Atacama Desert. The desert covers an area of 40,541 square miles.
What is unusual about the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Peru?
The Atacama Desert is known as 'The Driest Place on Earth'. It hasn't seen a drop of rain since record keeping began. Yet somehow, more than a million people squeeze life from this parched land.
Why is the Sahara Desert the driest place in the world?
The Atacama and Antarctic are the driest deserts, not he Sahara. The Atacama is so dry because the Andes mountains act as a block that prevents moisture from the Amazon and Atlantic from crossing into Chile and Peru, this forming a desert. The temperature in Antarctica is so very cold that the air can hold very little moisture that could form snow. It also does not have a source of warm oceanic water to act as a moisture supply for forming rain clouds.
How do the ocean currents affect the Atacama Desert?
The cold Humboldt Current gives the Atacama Desert its cool, mild climate. Fog formed because of the cold waters provides moisture that some plants and animals need to survive. It is also partially responsible for the extreme lack of rainfall in the desert.
