INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Atacama Desert forms part of the arid Pacific fringe of South America. Dry subsidence created by the South Pacific high-pressure cell makes the desert one of the driest regions in the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Atacama Desert is the driest nonpolar desert in the world, and the second driest overall, just behind some very specific spots within the McMurdo Dry Valleys as well as the only hot true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts, and the largest fog desert in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Atacama Desert is Chile at its most serrated; Chile without a safety net. Or, at least, that’s the theory.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Atacama Desert is a dry hot desert. It covers a 1600km strip of land on the Pacific coast. The desert has a stony landscape, salt lakes, sand, and felsic magma that streams towards the Andes. The desert has a constant temperature inversion.