The Atacama Desert is located between the Andes and the South Pacific and has a total area of approximately 180,000 square kilometers. The main body of the desert is located in the northern part of Chile, and the rest are located in Peru, Argentina and Bolivia. As the world's driest desert, there is no rainfall all year round. It used to be an unmanned area. Because part of the desert soil has no signs of life, NASA used the area to simulate the Mars environment for scientific research, adding a mysterious atmosphere to the land.
Atacama Desert, Spanish as Desierto de Atacama. It is a desert area in the central part of the West Coast of South America. It stretches about 1,000 kilometers north and south between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. The total area is approximately 181,300 square kilometers. The main body is located in Chilean territory, and some are located in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Argentina and Chile often clash for resources. In the Pacific War of 1879-1883, Chile won, and Perak permanently occupied this area. Nitrate was mined after the middle of the 19th century. Before World War I, Chilean saltpeter monopolized the world market with an annual output of 3 million tons. Since the advent of synthetic nitrogen, the saltpeter market has shrunk and the local prosperity has plummeted.
The El Niño phenomenon in 2015 brought a heavy rain in the past. The seeds of various flowers dormant in the desert land germinated, grew and blossomed, and bloomed in the dead desert.
