Where would you find the Atacama Desert?
Atacama Desert in the top three tourist locations in Chile. The specially commissioned ESO hotel is reserved for astronomers. About 80 geysers occur in a valley about 80 km from the town of San Pedro de Atacama. They are closer to the town of Chiu Chiu. The Baños de Puritama are rock pools which are 37 miles from the geysers. 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
Atacama Desert Visitors also use the Atacama Desert sand dunes for sandboarding (Spanish: "duna"). A week-long foot race called the Atacama Crossing has the competitors cross the various landscapes of the Atacama. An event called Volcano Marathon takes place near the Lascar volcano in the Atacama Desert. Eighteen solar powered cars were displayed in front of the presidential palace ("La Moneda") in Santiago in November 2012. The cars were then raced through the desert from 15–19 November 2012. Most people who go to tour the sites in the desert stay in the town of San Pedro de Atacama. The Atacama Desert is