Desert

Desierto de Atacama

The Atacama in northern Chile is one of the world’s driest places, a landscape of salt pans and mineral-streaked gorges running up to the foothills of the Andes.

Source: science.nasa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Desierto de Atacama label sits at 23.2° S, 69.3° W, in the Southern and Western Hemispheres.

Also labelled Atacama Desert.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Amazon Basin — about 2,000 km north-east
• Amazonas — about 2,300 km north
• Easter Island — about 4,000 km west
• South Atlantic Ocean — about 5,100 km south-east

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