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Only the Pacific coast along South America is desert. Most of the Pacific coast line in the rest of the Americas is not desert. In South America the prevalent wind direction is from the east. The Andes Mountains prevent moisture from the east from crossing, creating a rain shadow desert along the Pacific Coast. In North America the prevalent wind direction is from the west so the coast receives rain. However, the mountains prevent the rain from moving inland so rain shadow deserts form in these areas.
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What coast it the Atacama Desert near?
The Pacific Coast.
What is the large desert along the Pacific side of South America?
The Atacama Desert is on the Pacific coast of South America.
What is the desert located on the west coast of South America?
The Atacama Desert is located on the Pacific Coast of South America,
What desert is found on the Pacific Coast?
The Sonoran Desert in Mexico is on the coast as is the Sechura and the Atacama Deserts of South America
What coast is the Atacama Desert on?
The Atacama is located on the northwest coast of Chile on the Pacific Ocean.
What desert is found west of the Andes and along the Pacific Coast?
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
Where is Peru's Atacama Desert?
The Atacama Desert extends into southwestern Peru along the Pacific coast.
What is the driest place on earth south along the Pacific Coast?
Some say that the Atacama Desert on the Pacific Coast of South America is the driest desert on earth. Others say that Antarctica is even drier.
What ocean is the Atacama Desert near?
The Atacama is located along the Pacific coast of Chile and Peru.
What is a Sechura?
The Sechura is a cool, coastal desert found along the Pacific coast of Peru.
What desert gets less than 0.5 inches of rainfall every year and is located on the Pacific coast?
The Atacama Desert of South America on the Pacific coast receives virtually no rainfall on average each year.
Which hot desert is located along the western coast?
You did not provide the name of a continent in your question. However, in North America the Sonoran Desert reaches the west coast of Mexico. In South America there is found the Atacama Desert along the coast and in Africa the Namib Desert borders the Pacific. There are others.
