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	Atacama Desert - MSN Encarta
		Atacama Desert, arid region in northern Chile, bounded on the west by mountains along the Pacific Coast and on the east by the Andes Mountains.
		With rainfall occurring only two to four times a century, the Atacama Desert is one of the driest regions in the world.
		Consequently, vegetation in the Atacama is extremely sparse, with the exception of a few irrigated oases.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567427/Atacama_Desert.html (326 words)

	Atacama Desert â“ FREE Atacama Desert Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Atacama Desert, arid region, c.600 mi (970 km) long, N Chile, extending south from the border of Peru.
		The desert itself, c.2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level, is a series of dry salt basins flanked on the W by the Pacific coastal range, averaging c.2,500 ft (760 m) high, and on the E by the Andes.
		Sandboarding the dragon: Iquique, Chile, nestled between the Pacific and the Atacama Desert, is the birthplace of dune surfing.(SWEAT)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Atacama.html (1407 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Atacama desert (NT1303)
		The Atacama Desert is a narrow strip of desert along the northwest coast of Chile.
		The Atacama Desert ecoregion occupies a continuous strip for nearly 1,600 km along the narrow coast of the northern third of Chile from near Arica (18°24' S) southward to near La Serena (29°55' S) (Dillon and A. Hoffmann-J 1997).
		The Atacama Desert is distinguished as being one of the driest places in the Americas — and said to resemble a lunar landscape.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1303_full.html (1853 words)

	Atacama Desert, Atacama Desert Animals, South America Desert
		The Atacama Desert Chile has the title of being the driest desert in the world with parts of the desert having not seen any rainfall since records began.
		The gateway to exploring the sparsely populated Atacama Desert region is through San Pedro de Atacama and ecotourism friendly Lauca National Park.
		The village of San Pedro de Atacama lies in the middle of the desert and acts as a small cluster of civilization for tourists.
	www.destination360.com /south-america/chile/atacama-desert.php (728 words)

	NAI: News Stories
		The desert itself is thought to be between 10 to 15 million years old, making it the oldest desert on Earth.
		While this is possible in the Atacama, at the moment such a field trip is impossible for the planet Mars.
		The nitrate is produced by electrical discharges (lightning): during storms, the lightning causes nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere to combine to form nitrate.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /news_stories/news_detail.cfm?ID=17 (1255 words)

	Visiting the Atacama Desert, Chile's Lunar Landscape \| Frommers.com
		The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is one of the most spectacular and unique areas on the planet.
		The plateau extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes Mountains and in the middle of this desert, at an altitude of 7,000 feet, lies the Spanish colonial village of San Pedro de Atacama, surrounded by a green oasis.
		Because of the high altitude and nature of the geysers, the Atacama is not a destination recommended for young children, pregnant women or anyone with a heart condition.
	www.frommers.com /rss/articles/4735.html (901 words)

	ATACAMA DESERT
		It stretches from the highlands of the Andean Altiplano over the golden sands of the Atacama Desert as far as the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
		The city of Calama, 214 kilometers from Antofagasta, is an oasis in the middle of the desert.
		As the largest of the twelve salt flats in the Northern Region, the Salt Lake of Atacama is especially interesting.
	sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl /chile/turismo/atacama.html (784 words)

	Atacama Desert general information
		The commune of San Pedro de Atacama its a small village located in the middle of Atacama´s Desert (is the aridest of the world).
		In the oriental surroundings of the Atacama Salt Flat, to 2.400 mts.
		The Atacama culture was born in an environment where water was its the most important element, the centre of the life.
	www.nortetrekking.com /desertinfo.htm (535 words)

	Atacama Desert "Multi-Activity"
		About accommodation: This is an invitation to experience the authentic Atacama Desert and the oases of San Pedro de Atacama in their entire cultural and natural splendor.
		All the tours are available exclusively for clients staying at the lodge, which are thought for everyone, there are not limits in ages or physical conditions, only is important to wish know in depth traditional cultures of the local people in the Atacama Desert and its magic landscapes.
		The geomorphologic is a very particular case in the Atacama Salt Flat, due to the dissolution of karstic structure.
	www.altue.com /english/activities/multiactivities/atacama_desert_multi-activity.htm (1170 words)

	Travel \| Atacama: A desert one could drown in \| Seattle Times Newspaper
		Even the canyons and peaks of the Atacama's lunar-like floor were sculpted by water, the legacy of an ancient shallow sea and the flash floods that sometimes roar through the desert in the "rainy" months of January and February.
		This high northern desert stretching from mountains to coast is the nexis of some of the planet's most vehement extremes.
		Calama is a utilitarian outpost, and tourists quickly move on to the oasis of San Pedro de Atacama, a wind of dusty streets surrounding a 17th-century central plaza with a neat garden and whitewashed stucco church.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2003738191_webchile10.html (1219 words)

	ATACAMA DESERT TOURS,RESERVATIONS AND INFO
		Northern Chile's monumental landscape is represented by the Atacama Desert, the driest on the planet.
		Chilean desert holds enormous archaeologocal riches:the San Miguel museum in the Azapa valley in Arica and the Padre Le paige museum in San Pedro de Atacama.
		Departure for a regular excursion through the desert, with short stops where we can observe the changes in the landscape from the desert to the lap of the Andes as well as the great variety of cacti.
	www.chilecallcenter.com /atacama.htm (1052 words)

	Life in the Atacama - Home - Field Robotics Center - Carnegie Mellon University
		Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and NASA are using robotic technologies to investigate the Atacama Desert of Chile.
		In the interior of the desert, rain is measured in millimeters per decade and solar radiation is intense because of the high altitude and thin atmosphere.
		The Life in the Atacama project mapping the distribution of microorganisms and seeking to characterize the habitats in which they survive.
	www.frc.ri.cmu.edu /atacama (702 words)

	GLTours - Adventure Travel To The Atacama Desert
		Between the coastal mountain range and the Andes Mountains is the Atacama Desert, the driest region on earth.
		The magical town of San Pedro de Atacama, is an oasis, north of the Atacama salt flats.
		This desert region holds enormous archeological riches as the natural aridity here has preserved artifacts and ruins from early local cultures and the great expansions of the Tiwanaku and Inca Empire.
	www.gltours.com /Countries/Chiledesert.htm (156 words)

	Atacama Desert
		The great Atacama Desert in the north of Chile covers the 600 most arid kilometers on the face of the planet.
		The Tatio geysers, one of the desert's most awe-inspiring "son et lumiere" spectacles, are located fairly close to san Pedro de Atacama.
		In an impressive contrast, sunset in the Valley of the Moon is the maximum expression of silence and aridness.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/chile/about_destin/atacamadesert.html (462 words)

	Atacama desert, altiplano, north of Chile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Atacama desert and the Altiplano in the North of Chile
		The vast and colorful Atacama Desert is said to be the driest desert in the world.
		San Pedro de Atacama and numerous oases along the río Loa and río Salado served as way-stations on pre-Inca trade routes linking the Amazon, the Altiplano and the coast.
	www.visit-chile.org /norte/norte.phtml (457 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Atacama Desert
		The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, and is virtually sterile because it is blocked from moisture on both sides by the Andes mountains and by coastal mountains.
		During the 19th century the desert came under control of Bolvia, Chile and Peru and it soon became a conflictive zone due to unclear borders and the discovery of nitrate in the zone.
		Currently, the Atacama Desert is littered with approximately 170 abandoned nitrate (or "saltpeter") mining towns, almost all of which were shut down decades after the invention of synthetic nitrate in Germany at the turn of the 20th century.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Atacama_Desert (858 words)

	Atacama Information
		The Atacama desert of Chile and Peru is a virtually rainless plateau made up of salt basins (salares), sand, and lava flows, extending from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
		The Atacama Desert is the driest desert on Earth (except perhaps for the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica) and is virtually sterile because it is blocked from moisture on both sides by the Andes mountains and by coastal mountains.
		The driest part of the Atacama is between the coastal mountains and the Cordillera Domeyko, an area called the 'double rain shadow.' In this region, the Andes block moisture from the east, the Cordillera Domeyko block runoff from the Andes and the Coastal mountains block marine fog from the ocean.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Atacama (642 words)

	Desert Biome (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Australian desert is one example of a hot desert, and the Gobi desert in Mongolia is an example of a cold desert.
		Deserts can be found along coastlines, such as the Atacama desert, or in the interior of continents, such as the Great Basin desert of North America.
		Coastal deserts are located on west coasts of continents.The winds blow in an easterly direction and prevent the moisture from moving onto the land.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/biomedesert.htm (275 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA43, Lomas Formations of the Atacama Desert, Chile
		Some plants of the Atacama Desert have developed unique ecophysiological traits through their evolutionary histories that will be of interest particularly in the genetic engineering of crops for agriculture and horticulture.
		The intrinsic value of the Atacama Desert's plant and animal communities lies in the unique nature of their composition, the high levels of endemism and some species' remarkable adaptations for survival in some of the planet's most demanding conditions.
		Ehleringer, J.R., Mooney, H.A., Gulmon, S.L. and Rundel, P.W. Orientation and its consequences for Copiapoa (Cactaceae) in the Atacama Desert.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa43.htm (4449 words)

	Atacama Desert, Chile - Picture - ninemsn Encarta
		The Atacama salt mines stretch along thousands of square kilometres, peppered by small lakes.
		They are found in the Atacama plateau in north-eastern Chile, north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
		The salt and lithium mines provide the major economic activity of the region, and together with the Antofagasta region they provide 40 per cent of the world’s salt reserve.
	au.encarta.msn.com /media_121625511_761572974_-1_1/Atacama_Desert_Chile.html (77 words)

	The desert biome
		Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's surface and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm/year.
		Although most deserts, such as the Sahara of North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia, occur at low latitudes, another kind of desert, cold deserts, occur in the basin and range area of Utah and Nevada and in parts of western Asia.
		These deserts are characterized by cold winters with snowfall and high overall rainfall throughout the winter and occasionally over the summer.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /exhibits/biomes/deserts.php (1664 words)

	Earth Floor: Biomes
		The defining characteristic of a desert is that it is dry.
		As with all biomes, the desert climate is determined by geographic conditions.
		Deserts may occur along the coast such as the Atacama and Namib deserts or in the interior of continents such as the Great Basin and Australian deserts, which are far from any source of water.
	www.cotf.edu /ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/desert.html (342 words)

	explora atacama
		Desert and oasis have been agents of repose and of change for the pre-Columbian Andean cultures of South America.
		In Atacama it is possible to appreciate multiple features of this history, expressed in archeological monuments, cemeteries, churches and villages.
		The Atacama oases, in the middle of the driest desert in the world, have an altitudinal peculiarity: they are situated at 2,500 meters above sea level, making the Atacama not only the driest, but also the highest desert on earth.
	www.explora.com /atacama_theplace.php (410 words)

	Extreme Climates 1: Driest Place \| Weather \| Drought \| Atacama Desert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Atacama is a desert but you'll still need to bring warm clothes when you visit.
		Atacama always has salt lakes, snow on the mountaintops and some underground water, regardless of how long it's been since the last rainfall.
		While you probably couldn't convince your parents to move to the Atacama Desert, there are animals, plants and even people who live in the bone dry region.
	www.kidzworld.com /article/1103-extreme-climates-1-driest-place (316 words)

	Atacama Desert - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Atacama Desert - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Atacama Desert, arid region, northern Chile; area about 363,000 sq km (140,000 sq mi).
		Desert, term applied to regions of the Earth that are characterized by less than about 250 mm (10 in) of annual rainfall, and, in most cases, an...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Atacama_Desert.html (115 words)

	Atacama Desert
		The Desert of Atacama, located in the north of Chile between the Andes Cordillera and the Pacific Ocean, extends on more than 1.000 km and is considered one of the most arid of the world.
		The Atacama desert is also the ideal starting point to reach the “Altiplano" (Andean high plateau), where the Aymara indians live, with herds of llamas.
		Further South, we find the Atacama Salar, with its 300.000 hectares of territory, the oasis-town of San Pedro de Atacama, which is the tourist capital of the chilean north, due to its natural wonders.
	www.vivalatinatours.com /paginas/engdeserto.htm (399 words)

	Atacama Desert - Geography - 10/26/98
		Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the world's second driest region (icy Antarctica is first).
		The desert is completely barren and while most areas only receive moisture from an occasional fog or a shower every few decades, the rain gauge at Calama has never recorded any measurable precipitation.
		The Atacama is a high (most elevations are over 8000 feet) and cold desert, average temperatures range from 0° to 25° Celsius (32° to 75° F).
	www.harpercollege.edu /mhealy/g101ilec/samer/smd/smphys/aa102698.htm (303 words)

	ESA - Observing the Earth - The Atacama Desert, Chile
		The landscape of the Atacama Desert is no less stark than its meteorology: a plateau covered with lava flows and salt basins.
		The conspicuous white area below the image centre is the Atacama Salt Flat, just to the south of the small village San Pedro de Atacama, regarded as the centre of the desert.
		The Atacama is rich in copper and nitrates – it has been the subject of border disputes between Chile and Bolivia for this reason - and so is strewn with abandoned mines.
	www.esa.int /esaEO/SEM3PIWJD1E_index_0.html (333 words)

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