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The Atacama desert is the driest desert on earth. Amazingly, there are over 1 million people living there. Being that they get about 1 millimeter of rain a year if any, most of the people there live off fog.
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Most of the population-dense areas are on the coast line with few settlements in the interior with the exception of some mining towns. Water is either piped in or arrives by aqueduct. In really isolated areas water is brought in by trucks. A few smaller towns have established equipment to harvest some water from fog that is common in some areas.
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Which deserts are located in Chile?
The large desert in northern Chile is the Atacama Desert. The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert in the world.
Is San Pedro De Atacama in the Atacama desert?
Yes it is located in the Atacama Desert.
What is the climate of the Atacama Desert?
The Atacama Desert is a cool, exceedingly dry desert.
What its the desert in northern Chile?
The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile, southern Peru and small parts of Bolivia and Argentina.
What kind of desert is the Atacama?
The Atacama is a cold coastal desert.
What cold current passes through the Atacama's desert?
No current passes through the Atacama Desert but the Humbolt, or Peruvian Current, passes just off shore and has a great influence on the climate of the Atacama.
Is the Atacama of Chile a desert or a rainforest?
The Atacama is a desert in northern Chile.
What is the name of the coldest and driest desert in Latin America?
The coldest desert is the Patagonian Desert and the driest is the Atacama Desert.
Is the Atacama Desert the driest on earth?
Both the Atacama Desert and the Antarctic Desert share the honor as the driest on earth. The Antarctic is a polar desert and the Atacama is a cool coastal desert - both classified as cold deserts.
Which narrow desert is between the Andes mountains and pacific oceans?
That would be the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
What is the name of the desert on western coast of Chile?
The Atacama is on the northwestern coast of Chile.
How large is the Atacama Desert?
The Atacama desert covers about 40600 square miles.
