GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America, covering a 1, 000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.

Detailed explanation-3: -There is a continuous desert along South America’s Pacific coast. This desert stretches from the Sechura Desert in Northern Peru to the Atacama Desert in Chile. While there is little consensus on the name for the area between the Sechura and Atacama Deserts, it is nonetheless spectacular.