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What is the name of earth's driest desert located along the western border of Chile?
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The Atacama Desert. However, some scientist say Antarctica should have the title as the driest desert.
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Is the Nazca Desert the world's driest desert?
The Sechura Desert (also known as the Nazca Desert) is not the driest in the world. It does border on the Atacama Desert which many consider the driest desert.
Which continent has the driest desert in the world?
The driest desert, Antarctica, is in the southern hemisphere at the South Pole. Some say the Atacama Desert is the driest. It is located in the southern and western hemispheres.
What is the name of the earth's driest desert located along the western border of Chile?
Atacama Desert The Atacama Desert is a 966 km long plateau in South America, and is often considered to be the world's driest desert. It lies along the coast of Chile and west of the Andes Mountains. It dryness is due to the fact that it lies in the "rain shadow"between the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range.The Atacama Desert in is said by some scientists to be the driest desert in the world. Others argue that Antarctica is even drier.
What is the driest desert located in Chile?
The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile, southern Peru and small parts of Bolivia and Argentina. It is tied with Antartica as the driest desert on earth.
Where in Southern Africa is the driest climate?
The western side of southern Africa and the Namib Desert.
Why is the driest desert in the world in north Chile?
The Atacama Desert, located in parts of Chile, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia, is considered by many to be the driest desert on earth. Others consider the Antarctic Desert to be even drier.
What is the driest desert that passes through Peru?
Both the Atacama Desert and the Sechura Desert are found in western Peru and both are quite dry.
What is the name of the Earth's driest desert near Peru?
Some scientists argue that the driest desert is the Antarctic Desert, others that the Atacama Desert deserves that honor. However, the Atacama is the closest to the country of Peru and the northern parts of that desert cover the southwestern part of that country.
Which biome is the driest place on earth?
The Desert is the driest biome.
What is the driest desert in Chile?
The Atacama is the driest and only desert in Chile.
Which is the driest place in Chile?
The Atacama desert, the driest desert in the world.
Is the Gobi Desert the second driest desert?
Some scientists say Antarctica is the driest desert. Others say the Atacama is driest. Take your choice and whatever is left over is the second driest desert.
