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Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert ((スペイン語:Desierto de Atacama)) is a plateau in South America, covering a strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world.〔 (Excerpt)〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Even the Driest Place on Earth Has Water )〕 According to estimates the Atacama Desert proper occupies , or if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (''salares''), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes.
== Setting ==
The World Wide Fund for Nature defines the Atacama Desert ecoregion as extending from a few kilometers south of the Peru–Chile border to about 30° south latitude. The National Geographic Society considers the coastal area of southern Peru to be part of the Atacama Desert and also includes the deserts south of the Ica Region in Peru.
Peru borders it on the north and the Chilean Matorral ecoregion borders it on the south. To the east lies the less arid Central Andean dry puna ecoregion. The drier portion of this ecoregion is located south of the Loa River between the parallel Sierra Vicuña Mackenna and Cordillera Domeyko. To the north of the Loa lies the Pampa del Tamarugal.
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