atacama

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(Coğrafya) Atakama, Şili'nin kuzeyinde bulunan Dünya'nin en kurak çölüdür. Batısında Büyük Okyanus bulunur. Kuzeyde Peru, doğuda ise Bolivya ve Arjantin sınırlarını oluşturur
atakama
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şili'de bir çöl
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A region towards the north of Chile
The Atacama Desert, a long desert in Chile, and the driest desert on Earth according to various sources
(Coğrafya) The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in South America, extending 966 km (600 mi) between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It is created by the rain shadow of the Andes east of the desert. Its area is 181,300 square kilometers (70,000 mi²), in northern Chile. It is made up of salt basins (salares), sand and lava flows, and is 15 million years old and 100 times more arid than California's Death Valley

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Atacama Desert
Cool, arid area, north-central Chile. Extending north from the city of Copiapó, the area runs from north to south for a distance of some 600 to 700 mi (1,000 to 1,100 km) and covers most of the Antofagasta region and the northern part of the Atacama region. Because of its location between low coastal mountains and a higher inland range, the region is meteorologically anomalous. Despite its low latitude, summer temperatures average only about 65 °F (18 °C), and, though heavy fogs are common, the desert is one of the driest regions in the world. Some areas receive heavy rain only two to four times a century. For much of the 19th century, the desert was the object of conflicts between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru; after the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Chile emerged with permanent ownership of sectors previously controlled by Peru and Bolivia. For years before the development of synthetic methods of fixing nitrogen, the desert was a chief source of the world's nitrates
atacama desert
a desert in northern Chile rich in nitrate and copper deposits
atacama trench
a depression the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile