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HoriZen Video. Drone Views of Chile: Santiago, the Andes and Atacama Desert. Posted: March 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. Explore the stunning landscapes of Chile from above, and immerse ...
Shoehorned between the Andes and Salt ranges, the Atacama’s 40,000 square miles offer some of the planet’s most spectacular and untouched desert landscapes.
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 range ...
The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...
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.
Chile from geysers of Andes to Atacama desert, and beyond. Ahmad Faruqi. September 18, ...
According to geographers, the Atacama desert is a virtually rainless plateau in South America, situated in the west of the Andes Mountains. The Atacama desert, occupying a land of 105,000 square ...
The Tara Salt Flat sits at 14,000 feet in the northern Chilean Andes, at the eastern edge of the Atacama Desert. Some 250 miles to the west lies the Pacific Ocean and, in between, a vast, near ...
The Atacama desert is the only place in the world where saltpetre, a type of nitrate which used to be used in explosives and fertilisers, can be found. It's easily dissolved by rain so the Atacama ...
The driest, highest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, also holds the world's richest nitrate and iodine deposits. As such, a "white gold" rush there fueled Europe's bombs in World War I and ...
Reporting from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile — Only four people live in the village of Machuca, 13,000 feet up in the Chilean Andes, and all of them are related to Joel Colque. Colque, who grew up ...