It is composed mostly of dry salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava flows towards the Andes. It is quite barren.
Both the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert are high, desert plateaus.
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Yes, the majority of the undeveloped land in the Atacama is government owned.
The Atacama is mostly a plateau between two mountain ranges.
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.
Your description fits either the Atacama Desert or the Antarctic Desert. There are parts of the Atacama that have gone more than 400 years without a drop of rain.
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.
The Atacama is a cold coastal desert.
The Atacama is a 1,000-kilometer (600 mile) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains.