♥ Following the landscape of the last 007 movie, “Quantum of Solace”, this month we will travel along the Atacama Desert.
Located in Northern Chile, Atacama Desert is considered as a virtually rainless Plateau in South America, which covers 966 km strip of land on the Pacific Coast, west of the Andes Mountains. Occupies an area of 181.300 square kilometers of the Chilean North and is composed mostly of salt basin (Los Salares), sand and lava flows.
This Andean Desert has over 20 millions years old desert, and is one of the driest places on Earth (is fifty times drier than California’s Death Valley, and is the second driest desert in the world, after McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica). The average rainfall in Chilean Region of Antofagasta is just 1mm per year. Atacama is so arid that mountains that reach as high as 6.885 metres are free of glaciers, and the soil use to be compared with the soil of Mars.
Atacama Desert is, today, considered as region unique on Earth.
Have a nice journey again…
Located in Northern Chile, Atacama Desert is considered as a virtually rainless Plateau in South America, which covers 966 km strip of land on the Pacific Coast, west of the Andes Mountains. Occupies an area of 181.300 square kilometers of the Chilean North and is composed mostly of salt basin (Los Salares), sand and lava flows.
This Andean Desert has over 20 millions years old desert, and is one of the driest places on Earth (is fifty times drier than California’s Death Valley, and is the second driest desert in the world, after McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica). The average rainfall in Chilean Region of Antofagasta is just 1mm per year. Atacama is so arid that mountains that reach as high as 6.885 metres are free of glaciers, and the soil use to be compared with the soil of Mars.
Atacama Desert is, today, considered as region unique on Earth.
Have a nice journey again…
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Atacama Desert
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