The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long (1,000-mile) strip of land west of the Andes Mountains , it covers an area of 105,000 km 2 (41,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] which increases to 128,000 km 2 (49,000 sq mi) if the ...

2024年6月16日 · Yes, humans live in the Atacama Desert. Over one million people currently call the desert home, living in various communities and utilizing the available resources to sustain their lives. 20.

2020年1月30日 · The Atacama Desert stretches across Chile in a staggering diversity of discrete landscapes. While it can be a challenging place to call home, it is a playground of adventure for intrepid visitors...

2024年7月1日 · There is very limited life in the Atacama Desert due to its extreme aridity. However, some specially adapted mammal species, such as Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse, can be found in the desert. The less arid parts of the desert are inhabited by the South American gray fox and the viscacha, a relative of the chinchilla.

2017年12月19日 · Life in the Atacama Desert has adapted to thrive in some of the driest conditions on Earth. Standing in the middle of the Atacama Desert, it’s easy to feel like the only person on Earth....

2022年7月1日 · Today, over 1 million people live in the Atacama Desert, which is surprising given that the place is often compared to being "hell on Earth." This arid desert is the oldest on Earth and has experienced such conditions for 150 million years. However, scientists speculate that its inner core has been hyperarid for the past 15 million years.

2022年2月8日 · It seems evident and necessary that a “new Atacama Desert” be recognized as a desert biome containing mineral richness, highly diverse extant life forms, renewable energy resources, geographic, oceanic, and astronomical assets, and inhabitants with an inherited ancestral acknowledge.

2019年2月12日 · Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, stretches across a roughly 600-mile (1,000 kilometers) tract of land wedged between the coastal Cordillera de la Costa mountain...

2018年2月26日 · As one of the driest places on Earth, Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the last places you’d expect a trip to be ruined by rain. Dirk Schulze-Makuch happened to be so lucky.

2008年9月26日 · The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. Some plants, animals, and microbes manage to survive there, though. People live and work in the Atacama Desert, too. Places like the Atacama, where life struggles to get by, are called extreme environments. How can anything live in such a dry desert?