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This 11 page paper provides an overview of the Atacam Desert. The Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is considered by some to be the driest desert in the world. The distinctness of the phy1ical characteristics of this desert come from both location and landforms, and this also determines the nature of the desert as a biome. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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determines the nature of the desert as a biome. Because of the arid conditions in the desert, vegetation is sparse, limiting the types and populations of indigenous animal species.
In addition, mining in the 19th century created some changes to the topography that impacted the region as a whole. Physical Description/Landforms The Atacama Desert is a region
in Northern Chile of about 140,600 square miles, which is bound on the west by a mountainous strip that abuts the Pacific coastline, and on the east by the Cordillera
Domeyko, a range of foothills of the Andes Mountains (Climate, 2002). "The average width is less than 100 miles but it extends 600 miles south from the Peruvian border.
The mountains nearest the ocean are the Pacific coastal range, with an average elevation of 2500 feet" (Climate, 2002). The arid nature of this desert climate is one
of the primary factors influencing the physical elements and composition of the region. The desert extends from the thin coastal shelf abutting the Pacific Ocean to the pampas, seemingly
lifeless plains that progress towards river gorges that are layered with mineral sediments that have come from the Andes Mountains (Vesilind, 2003). " The pampas bevel up to the
altiplano, the foothills of the Andes, where alluvial salt pans give way to lofty white-capped volcanoes that march along the continental divide, reaching 20,000 feet" (Vesilind, 2003). The center
of the Atacama Desert is what climatologists describe as "absolute desert" and as a result, the Atacama has been deemed the driest desert on Earth. There are actually areas
of the desert where rain has never been recorded as long as humans have measured rainfall in the region and there is no evident vegetation in this segment of the
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