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atacama

n. 1 The Atacama Desert, a long desert in Chile, and the driest desert on Earth according to various sources. 2 A region towards the north of Chile

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Atacama (disambiguation)

The Atacama Desert is the most arid desert in the world which is located in Chile.

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The war literature stored at Atacama, to which we have already referred, is full of futile protest against the horror, the unsportsmanlike quality, the casual filthiness and indecency, the mechanical disregard of human dignity of the new tactics.

San Felice to Atacama, where no doubt you will obtain all the information you require.

Dick seemed to be driven to the conclusion that Harris was right in describing this plateau of Atacama, which he had for his part most firmly believed to be a vast desert between the Andes and the Pacific, as a region that was quite exceptional in its natural features.

This is the Valle de la Muerte, Death Valley, in other words, in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, near the border with Bolivia.

The valley, not far from San Pedro de Atacama, was discovered by a priest by the name of padre Gustavo Le Paige.

San Pedro de Atacama in Northern Chile as I have just said, in a grave that has been dated to 200 CE, almost fifteen hundred years before rongorongo is supposed to have been invented on Rapa Nui.

I told him that Jasper Robinson had unveiled a tablet covered in rongorongo script that he had found in the Atacama Desert.

Behind the beach, the fruit and vegetable gardens of the Atacama Desert rapidly gave way to the foothills of the high Andes.

The Catalogue of Historical Material stored at Atacama gives a list of 2,362,705 books and gross files, up to date, and of these over 182,000 deal exclusively or largely with the causation of the war.

There are a hundred gross files of newspaper cuttings at Atacama, and some of the most amazing are reproduced in the selected Historical Documents.

When a ninety-foot-high second wave came in, it picked up the Watree and washed it deep into the Atacama Desert.

Nell and I had been in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the highest and driest desert in the world, on her fiftieth birthday.

I had to pull every string I knew, behind the scenes, to get the geniuses at JPL to send their two Viking landers to the Martian equivalents of Death Valley and the Atacama Desert in Chile.

If you wish to follow me you will be well received, and the means of transport to gain the town of Atacama will not fail you.

Had nature, as Harris had told him, been able to make a region apart from the plateau of Atacama, of which he knew nothing, if it did not form one of the most vast deserts of South America, between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean?