Atacama Desert

The "Atacama Desert Project" was condut in 2009 during one month photo activity in South America.

The Atacama Desert is a highland in Chile, covering a 1,000-kilometre strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world. According to estimates the Atacama Desert proper occupies 105,000 square kilometres but its size rises to 128,000 square kilometres when the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes.

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