Main
Big photo
Wikipedia: The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in South America, covering a 600-mile (1,000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is, according to NASA, National Geographic and many other publications, the driest desert in the world. The rain shadow on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range, as well as a coastal inversion layer created by the cold offshore Humboldt Current, keep this over 20 million-year-old desert 50 times drier than California's Death Valley.
![[A chilla in Pan de Azúcar National Park in the coast of Atacama Desert.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Fox_pan_de_azucar_s.jpg "A chilla in Pan de Azúcar National Park in the coast of Atacama Desert.")
|
![[Atacama road.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Chile_Atacama_s.jpg "Atacama road.")
|
 from Flexjandro |
 from :en:Chmouel |
![[Map of Atacama Desert]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Atacamadesertmap_s.jpg "Map of Atacama Desert")
|
|
|
from Magnus_Manske |
Is there something wrong with this topic? See our policies on offensive content; if you see something wrong, contact us.
