Question

Features of Atacama Desert

Answer 1

Atacama Desert, Spanish Desierto de Atacama, cool, arid region in northern Chile, 600 to 700 miles (1,000 to 1,100 km) long from north to south. Its limits are not exactly determined, but it lies mainly between the south bend of the Loa River and the mountains separating the Salado-Copiapó drainage basins. To the north, the desert continues to the border of Peru.

Answer 2

1 The Atacama is the driest hot desert in the world.
-The desert typically gets less than 1mm of rain a year and some places haven’t  ever recorded rain.
- The desert not only is on the Tropic of Capricorn, it is also in the rain shadow of the Chilean Coast Mountain Range which means that no rain falls on the area.
2 It is extremely hard for people and plants and animals to live here.
 -Life is concentrated around oases and mining towns.