Atacama Desert Atacama Desert The Atacama Desert () is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is one of the driest places in the world (the driest being the McMurdo Dry Valleys ) , as well as the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts. According to estimates, the Atacama Desert occupies , or if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes ("salares"), sand, and felsic lava
The Earthquake in Chile the children with his sword but eventually his son, Juan, is torn from his grasp and bashed against a pillar. The crowd disperses and Don Fernando is left with Philip, whom he adopts as his own child with Donna Elvira. At the conclusion, Don Fernando compares Juan and Philip and considers how he had acquired them, and remarks; "It almost seemed to him that he should be glad." Helma Sanders-Brahms wrote and directed a telefilm of this story in West Germany in 1975. The Earthquake in Chile The Earthquake in Chile () is a novella written by Heinrich von Kleist