There is virtually no water in the Atacama so food cannot be grown there. Drinking water must be piped in from elsewhere and food trucked in from other areas. There is very little employment available except for some mining operations. Building materials for homes must be brought in from the outside. The weather is actually quite pleasant but living conditions are very difficult because of the location.
Humans need water and food to survive. There is very little natural water in the Atacama Desert for humans to drink, bathe in, cook with or to grow crops for food. Even with these hardships, over a million people manage to live in the desert and millions more in cities and town located in the Atacama.
Atacama desert is very thinly populated because its weather is either too hot nor too cold and neither too dry.
It is thinly populated due to it's too hot and dry climate.
The Atacama is a cold desert so Calexico wins the prize for being hotest.
There are very few plants in the Atacama so it produces next to no oxygen.
The Atacama should be protected. However, due to the lack of water, it is unsuitable for farming so that is not a problem. There are a few mining operations but they take up only a small fraction of the desert. The majority of the Atacama is self-protected. It offers little incentive for man to develop it. Some parts have been placed into national parks, however.
it is because cactus can survive in the desert so it is found in Atacama Desert.
It is due to the effects of the Humbolt Current
The cold Pacific tends to moderate the temperatures of the Atacama so it normally has rather cool temperatures compared to most other desert areas of the world.
Depending on your own personal opinion, either Antarctica or the Atacama Desert of South America is the driest.The Atacama Desert in Chile. However, many scientists say that Antarctica is even drier.Each scientists has an opinion. Some say the Atacama is the driest desert, others say that the Antarctic Desert is. Which ever desert you do not choose as the driest, is then in second place.The driest desert on earth is the Atacama desert in south America.Others argue that the title for driest desert should go to Antarctica.The Atacama desert in South America is the driest place on Earth.The Atacama Desert in Chile. However, many scientists say that Antarctica is even drier.Each scientists has an opinion. Some say the Atacama is the driest desert, others say that the Antarctic Desert is. Which ever desert you do not choose as the driest, is then in second place.Antarctica is a vast frozen desert that covers 10% of the earth's surface, and is commonly believed to be the driest desert on Earth. Humidity there is generally rated at less than five percentHowever, The Atacama Desert, according to Wikipedia is indeed, the driest desert on the planet. Some parts of this desert have zero humidity: rain has never fallen there; no marine fog exists there. Read more, below.The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest desert on Earth. It covers about 600 miles along the Pacific coast of Chile.Depending on your personal opinion, it is either the Antarctic Desert in Antarctica or the Atacama Desert in South America.It's the Atacama Desert in Chile, South America, although some scientist give the honor to Antarctica.
No, the Atacama desert in South America is the driest place on Earth. However, some scientists argue that the tirle should go to the Antarctic Desert.No. This title belongs to the Atacama Desert in Chile. Some places there are so arid that rain has not fallen significantly for 40 million years.Clarification:Many scientists claim that the Antarctic is actually the driest desert in the world, receiving even less precipitation than the Atacama.
The driest desert is Antarctica with the Atacama a close second. The Atacama is a rain shadow desert. The Andes Mountains block moisture from the Amazon Basin and the Atlantic from crossing so no rain falls in the Atacama.
The Andes Mountain range is so tall that it blocks the moisture from the Amazon River basin from reaching the west coast of Chile and therefore the Atacama Desert receives virtually no rainfall, making it a desert.
Chile has the Atacama Desert in the west and it lies in the Southern Hemisphere. So is/has/does Australia.
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.