Atacama Desert National Geographic

The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km², which increases to 128,000 km² if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.
  • Realm: Neotropical
  • Biome: Deserts and xeric shrublands
  • Borders: Central Andean dry puna · Chilean matorral · Sechura Desert
  • Area: 104,741 km² (40,441 sq mi)
  • Country: Chile
  • Protected: 3,385 km² (3%)

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