Most Atacama ... the region. In the Finca de Chañaral valley, Roberto shows us rock paintings made by the desert tribes. Spanish colonial rulers paid less attention to the desert, but Chile ...

The salt flats in this region are like nowhere ... It’s surprisingly simple to reach the Atacama Desert. Most people choose to fly into Santiago, the capital of Chile. You can fly from New ...

The Atacama Desert, situated in northern Chile, is not just any ordinary arid region. Spanning over 600 ... reaching toward the country's port city of Antofagasta. Within this expanse lie several ...

The Atacama ... desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth in October 2022, Chile ...

The Atacama Desert is widely recognised as the driest ... it covers an area of 105,000 km. Located in Chile's Antofagasta Region, it sees an average rainfall of just 15 mm per year, with some ...

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama ... of Antofagasta, says. “You never know when they are going to announce a new stage of a large mining facility.” A mountainous region ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is a barren landscape that has become ... The driest part is the Yungay district in the city of Antofagasta, and while plants and animals are scares, scientists have found ...

Chile's Atacama Desert ... In particular, the Atacama Desert wants to be declared a World Heritage Site to promote its care and conservation for future generations, as flowering is a unique phenomenon ...

Tracks from both authorized and illegal off-road racing have marred 3,000-year-old figures of animals, humans and objects on the desert slopes of Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region of Chile.