The desert receives virtually no rainfall which is needed for plants to flourish.
The Atacama is very barren and dry. The temperatures are mild and not hot. Few plants or animals live there.
Both the Altiplano and the Atacama Desert are high, desert plateaus.
It is composed mostly of dry salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava flows towards the Andes. It is quite barren.
Africa
Arid barren land is known as a desert, though the Antarctic (land of snow and ice) is also classed as a desert.
Because the heat causes vegetation to struggle with growth
Yes, the majority of the undeveloped land in the Atacama is government owned.
The Atacama is mostly a plateau between two mountain ranges.
No a desert is a barren flat land.
The Arabia Desert is the barren land on the Sinai peninsula. This land is believed to be where Moses led the exodus.
The driest desert on the planet is the Atacama Desert, located in Chile. It is one of the most barren and arid places in the world, receiving very little precipitation due to its geographic location between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
Desert like Barren Land