The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.

阿塔卡马沙漠（Atacama Desert），西班牙语作Desierto de Atacama。 是南美洲西海岸中部的沙漠地区，在安第斯山脉和太平洋之间南北绵延约1000千米，总面积约为18.13万平方千米，主体位于智利境内，也有部分位于秘鲁、玻利维亚和阿根廷。

2022年1月5日 · Chile’s Atacama Desert may be the next best option with desiccated salt flats, inhospitable wildlands and vast lifeless landscapes that NASA uses to test instruments for outer space. One of the harshest places on earth, the Atacama may at first sound dull, empty or even devoid of water; it’s none of those things.

2025年3月2日 · Discovering the Amazing Atacama Desert: Facts for Kids! The Atacama Desert is an incredible place on Earth, and it’s not like any other desert you might have seen in movies or books. Instead of endless sand dunes, it has rocky landscapes, towering volcanoes, and even salt lakes! So, what makes the Atacama so special? Here …

阿塔卡马沙漠（西班牙語： desierto de Atacama ；又譯亞他加馬沙漠），是南美洲西海岸中部的沙漠地区，在安地斯山脉和南太平洋岸之间南北绵延约1000公里，总面积约为18.13万平方公里，主体位于智利北部境内，周边部分分属秘鲁、玻利维亚和阿根廷。

The Atacama Desert remains the planet's oldest and driest desert, perched on a ledge of rock between the massive, jutting Andes Mountains and the 1,500-foot-high (500 m) wall of rock and cliffs that plunges into the Pacific Ocean. Just offshore lies the six-mile-deep (9.65 km) Atacama Trench, a rift along the edge of two crustal plates that ...

2025年3月7日 · Does Anything Grow in the Atacama Desert? The short answer is yes, though perhaps not in the lush, verdant way you might imagine. Despite its reputation as the driest non-polar desert on Earth, the Atacama Desert does host a surprising array of resilient plant life, albeit sparsely distributed and highly specialized.

2019年3月26日 · Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest and, it’s been argued, oldest desert in the world – characteristics that might lead travelers to believe it’s an arid, windswept wasteland ...

2017年1月4日 · The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, located north of Santiago, Chile, in the Atacama Desert, is an international astronomy facility that uses high-precision antennas to advance scientific ...

2025年2月8日 · The Atacama Desert, stretching along the Pacific coast of South America primarily in northern Chile, is a region of profound significance for a multitude of reasons. Its importance spans across economic, scientific, historical, and cultural dimensions, making it a truly unique and crucial area of the world.