1 Its high-altitude location, up to 13,000 feet (4,000 meters), in northern Chile and southern Peru. 2  To the west of the Andes, the Atacama Desert is stuck between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes Mountain Chain to the east. 3  Its lack of precipitation.n inch of rain represents multiple years worth of rain for the Atacama Desert. Areas this dry simply cannot handle a large amount of rain in a short period of time. The rock hard ground does not absorb the water. The lack of vegetation leads to rapid erosion and a massive generation of mud.
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Fayetteville is in the Sandhills of North Carolina, which are between the coastal plain to the southeast and the Piedmont to the northwest. The city is built on the Cape Fear River, a 202-mile-long (325 km) river that originates in Haywood and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.