Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau on the Pacific coast of , stretching along a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land in northern , west of the .
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert in South America
  • Also known as: “Atacama basamortua”, “Atacama kõrb”, “Atacama Sisi”, “Atacama-ørkenen”, “Atacaman aavikko”, “Atacaman autiomaa”, “Atacamaørken”, “Atacamaplatån”, “Atacamawoestijn”, “Atacoma Desert”, “Atakama ch’in pacha”, “Atakama Çölü”, “Atakamo”, “Atakamos dykuma”, “Désert de l’Atacama”, “Desert of Atacama”, “Deserto do atacama”, “Deşertul atacama”, “Pustynia Atacama”, “Sa mạc Atacama”, “The Atacama”, “Valle de La Muerte”, “Έρημος Ατακάμα”, “Пустеля Атакама”, “ატაკამას უდაბნო”, “ატაკამის უდაბნო”, “Աթակամա անապատ”, “אטקאמה”, “אטקמה”, “מדבר אטקאמה”, “اتاکاما”, “ایٹا کاما”, “ایٹاکاما”, “بیابان اتاکاما”, “صحراء أتاكاما”, “صحراء أتكاما”, “صحرائے ایٹا کاما”, “صحرای آتاکاما”, “आताकामा रेगिस्तान”, “அட்டகாமா”, “ಅಟಕಾಮ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”, “അറ്റാക്കമ”, “ทะเลทรายอาทาคามา”, “아따까마 사막”, “阿塔卡玛沙漠”, and “阿塔卡马”

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: “Atacamawoestyn”
  • Albanian: “Atakama”
  • Arabic: “أتاكاما”
  • Arabic: “أتكاما”
  • Armenian: “Ատակամա անապատ”
  • Armenian: “Ատակամա”
  • Asturian: “desiertu d’Atacama”
  • Asturian: “Desiertu d’Atacama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atakama”
  • Bashkir: “Атакама”
  • Basque: “Atacamako basamortua”
  • Bavarian: “Atacamawüstn”
  • Belarusian: “Атакама”
  • Belarusian: “Пустыня Атакама”
  • Bengali: “আতাকামা মরুভূমি”
  • Bosnian: “Atacama”
  • Breton: “Dezerzh Atacama”
  • Bulgarian: “Атакама”
  • 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: “阿塔卡马沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Atacama”
  • Czech: “Atacama”
  • Danish: “Atacamaørkenen”
  • Dutch: “Atacama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتاكاما”
  • Esperanto: “Atakama-Dezerto”
  • Estonian: “Atacama”
  • Finnish: “Atacama”
  • French: “désert d’Atacama”
  • French: “Désert d’Atacama”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Atacama”
  • Georgian: “ატაკამა”
  • German: “Atacama-Wüste”
  • German: “Atacamawüste”
  • Greek: “Ατακάμα”
  • Gujarati: “અતાકામા રણ”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר אטקמה”
  • Hindi: “अटाकामा मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “आताकामा मरुस्थल”
  • Hungarian: “Atacama-sivatag”
  • Icelandic: “Atacama-eyðimörkin”
  • Icelandic: “Atacama”
  • Ido: “Atakama”
  • 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: “ಅಟಕಾಮಾ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Atakama shóli”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Atakama”
  • Kazakh: “Атакама”
  • Kirghiz: “Атакама”
  • Korean: “아타카마 사막”
  • Kurdish: “Atacama”
  • Kurdish: “Atakama”
  • Latin: “Atacama (desertum)”
  • Latin: “Atacama”
  • Latvian: “Atakamas tuksnesis”
  • Lithuanian: “Atakama”
  • Luxembourgish: “Atacamawüst”
  • Macedonian: “Атакама”
  • Malay: “Gurun Atacama”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റക്കാമ മരുഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റാക്കമ മരുഭൂമി”
  • Marathi: “अताकामा वाळवंट”
  • Mazanderani: “آتاکاما”
  • Mingrelian: “ატაკამა”
  • Nepali: “अटाकामा मरुभूमि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atacama”
  • Norwegian: “Atacamaørkenen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atacama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Desèrt d’Atacama”
  • Ossetian: “Атакамæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਤਾਕਾਮਾ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
  • Persian: “بیابان آتاکاما”
  • Polish: “Atakama”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Atacama”
  • Quechua: “Atakama”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Atacama”
  • Russian: “Атакама”
  • Scots: “Atacama Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Atacama”
  • Serbian: “Атакама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atacama”
  • Sindhi: “اٽاڪاما ريگستان”
  • Slovak: “Atacama”
  • Slovenian: “Atakama”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Atacama”
  • Swahili: “Atacama”
  • Swedish: “Atacamaöknen”
  • Tagalog: “Atacama”
  • Tajik: “Атакама”
  • Tamil: “அட்டகாமா பாலைவனம்”
  • Tatar: “Атакама чүле”
  • Telugu: “అటకామా ఎడారి”
  • Thai: “ทะเลทรายอาตากามา”
  • Turkish: “Atacama Çölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Атакама”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے ایٹاکاما”
  • Uzbek: “Atakama”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoang 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”
  • “Atacama”

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