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Antofagasta

Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of , in the north of . Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land west of the , it covers an area of 105,000 km2, which increases to 128,000 km2 if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert in South America
  • Also known as: “Atacama”, “Atacoma Desert”, “Desert of Atacama”, and “The Atacama”

Atacama Desert

Latitude
-24.5563° or 24° 33′ 23″ south
Longitude
-69.42265° or 69° 25′ 22″ west
Elevation
2,657 metres (8,717 feet)
Open location code
577GCHVG+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2690852139
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­desert
Geo­Names ID
3899192
Wiki­data ID
Q47141
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Atacama Desert” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Atacama”
  • Afrikaans: “Atacamawoestyn”
  • Albanian: “Atakama”
  • Arabic: “أتاكاما”
  • Arabic: “أتكاما”
  • Arabic: “اتاكاما”
  • Arabic: “صحراء أتاكاما”
  • Arabic: “صحراء أتكاما”
  • Armenian: “Աթակամա անապատ”
  • Armenian: “Ատակամա անապատ”
  • Armenian: “Ատակամա”
  • Asturian: “Atacama”
  • Asturian: “desiertu d’Atacama”
  • Asturian: “Desiertu d’Atacama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atakama”
  • Bashkir: “Атакама”
  • Basque: “Atacama basamortua”
  • Basque: “Atacama”
  • Basque: “Atacamako basamortua”
  • Bavarian: “Atacamawüstn”
  • Belarusian: “Атакама”
  • Belarusian: “Пустыня Атакама”
  • Bengali: “আতাকামা মরুভূমি”
  • Bosnian: “Atacama”
  • Breton: “Dezerzh Atacama”
  • Bulgarian: “Атакама”
  • Catalan: “Atacama”
  • Catalan: “desert d’Atacama”
  • Catalan: “Desert d’Atacama”
  • Cebuano: “Atacama Desert”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیابانی ئاتاکاما”
  • Chinese: “阿他加馬沙漠”
  • Chinese: “阿他加马沙漠”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡玛沙漠”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡馬沙漠”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡马”
  • Chinese: “阿塔卡马沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Atacama”
  • Czech: “Atacama”
  • Czech: “Atakama”
  • Danish: “Atacama”
  • Danish: “Atacamaørken”
  • Danish: “Atacamaørkenen”
  • Dutch: “Atacama”
  • Dutch: “Atacamawoestijn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتاكاما”
  • Esperanto: “Atakama-Dezerto”
  • Esperanto: “Atakamo”
  • Estonian: “Atacama kõrb”
  • Estonian: “Atacama”
  • Finnish: “Atacama”
  • Finnish: “Atacaman aavikko”
  • Finnish: “Atacaman autiomaa”
  • French: “désert d’Atacama”
  • French: “Désert d’Atacama”
  • French: “Désert de l’Atacama”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Atacama”
  • Georgian: “ატაკამა”
  • Georgian: “ატაკამას უდაბნო”
  • Georgian: “ატაკამის უდაბნო”
  • German: “Atacama-Wüste”
  • German: “Atacama”
  • German: “Atacamawüste”
  • Greek: “Ατακάμα”
  • Greek: “Έρημος Ατακάμα”
  • Gujarati: “અતાકામા રણ”
  • Hebrew: “אטקאמה”
  • Hebrew: “אטקמה”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר אטקאמה”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר אטקמה”
  • Hindi: “अटाकामा मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “आताकामा मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “आताकामा रेगिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Atacama-sivatag”
  • Hungarian: “Atacama”
  • Icelandic: “Atacama”
  • Ido: “Atakama”
  • Indonesian: “Atacama”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Atacama”
  • Interlingua: “Deserto Atacama”
  • Irish: “Gaineamhlach Atacama”
  • Italian: “deserto di Atacama”
  • Italian: “Deserto di Atacama”
  • Japanese: “アタカマ砂漠”
  • Javanese: “Sagara wedhi Atacama”
  • Javanese: “Segara wedhi Atacama”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟಕಾಮ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟಕಾಮಾ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Atakama”
  • Kazakh: “Атакама”
  • Kirghiz: “Атакама”
  • Korean: “아따까마 사막”
  • Korean: “아타카마 사막”
  • Kurdish: “Atacama”
  • Kurdish: “Atakama”
  • Latin: “Atacama (desertum)”
  • Latin: “Atacama”
  • Latvian: “Atakamas tuksnesis”
  • Lithuanian: “Atakama”
  • Lithuanian: “Atakamos dykuma”
  • Luxembourgish: “Atacamawüst”
  • Macedonian: “Атакама”
  • Malay: “Gurun Atacama”
  • Malayalam: “Atacama Desert”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റക്കാമ മരുഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റാക്കമ മരുഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റാക്കമ”
  • Marathi: “अताकामा वाळवंट”
  • Mazanderani: “آتاکاما”
  • Mingrelian: “ატაკამა”
  • Nepali: “अटाकामा मरुभूमि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atacama-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atacamaørkenen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atacama-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atacamaørkenen”
  • Norwegian: “Atacamaørkenen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atacama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Desèrt d’Atacama”
  • Ossetian: “Атакамæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਤਾਕਾਮਾ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
  • Persian: “آتاکاما”
  • Persian: “اتاکاما”
  • Persian: “بیابان آتاکاما”
  • Persian: “بیابان اتاکاما”
  • Persian: “صحرای آتاکاما”
  • Polish: “Atacama”
  • Polish: “Atakama”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Atacama”
  • Portuguese: “Atacama”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Atacama”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto do atacama”
  • Portuguese: “Valle de La Muerte”
  • Quechua: “Atacama”
  • Quechua: “Atakama ch’in pacha”
  • Quechua: “Atakama”
  • Romanian: “Atacama”
  • Romanian: “Deşertul atacama”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Atacama”
  • Russian: “Атакама”
  • Russian: “Пустыня Атакама”
  • Scots: “Atacama Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Atacama Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Atacama”
  • Serbian: “Атакама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atacama”
  • Sindhi: “اٽاڪاما ريگستان”
  • Slovak: “Atacama”
  • Slovenian: “Atacama”
  • Slovenian: “Atakama”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Atacama”
  • Swahili: “Atacama”
  • Swedish: “Atacamaöknen”
  • Swedish: “Atacamaplatån”
  • Tagalog: “Atacama”
  • Tajik: “Атакама”
  • Tamil: “அட்டகாமா பாலைவனம்”
  • Tamil: “அட்டகாமா”
  • Telugu: “అటకామా ఎడారి”
  • Thai: “ทะเลทรายอาตากามา”
  • Thai: “ทะเลทรายอาทาคามา”
  • Turkish: “Atacama Çölü”
  • Turkish: “Atacama Sisi”
  • Turkish: “Atakama Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Атакама”
  • Ukrainian: “Пустеля Атакама”
  • Urdu: “ایٹا کاما”
  • Urdu: “ایٹاکاما”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے ایٹا کاما”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے ایٹاکاما”
  • Uzbek: “Atakama”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Atacama”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Atacama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Atacama”
  • Welsh: “Anialwch yr Atacama”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایٹاکاما روہی”
  • Western Panjabi: “صحرائے ایٹاکاما”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿塔卡马沙漠”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿塔卡馬沙漠”

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