ATACAMADESERT

Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert is a plateau in South America, covering a strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest hot desert in the world. The Atacama occupies composed mostly of salt lakes, sand, and felsic lava flows towards the Andes.

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