The Atacama Desert is Chile at its most serrated ... by the Spanish conquistadors who barrelled into the region in the 1540s, changing the language of a continent and leaving a mark that ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead. The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert, with the Andes in the ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in ... salts are driven in great convoys of trucks to the city of Antofagasta on the coast, where they are purified and exported to be made ...

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 ...

Growing up in Chile’s Atacama Desert ... Since the 1960s, the Atacama Desert has been an important hub for international astronomy. Today, the region, which boasts more than 300 clear nights ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle ... adding that the company now has 1,000 employees in Chile, up from 250 five years ago. Even so, the region's lithium output is just a fraction of what ...