Proper noun
The Atacama Desert, a long desert in Chile, and the driest desert on Earth according to various sources.
A region of northern Chile.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAlmagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their "torn clothes" due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama Desert. Source: Internet
Almost five years of war ended with the loss of the department of Tarapacá and the provinces of Tacna and Arica, in the Atacama region. Source: Internet
Clarkson, Hammond, and May don’t exactly seem equipped to take on the Amazon jungle, the Atacama desert, or Bolivia’s “Death Road” in clapped-out SUVs, and that’s what makes the Bolivia Special one of the best. Source: Internet
Atacama, Chile. citation Infrared astronomy is founded on the detection and analysis of infrared radiation (wavelengths longer than red light). Source: Internet
Flora Laguna de Sonso tropical dry forest in Northern Andes The Andean region cuts across several natural and floristic regions due to its extension from Caribbean Venezuela to cold, windy and wet Cape Horn passing through the hyperarid Atacama Desert. Source: Internet
A few years later, in a project called SAFER (Sample Acquisition Field Experiment with a Rover), Woods' team was back in Atacama with a prototype of the ESA's ExoMars rover. Source: Internet