Copiapó Huasco Done by myself File links The following pages link to this file: Atacama Region Categories: Images with unknown copyright status ... Chile is divided into thirteen regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), each of which is headed by an intendant (intendente), appointed by the president. ... In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Copiapó is a city in the little North of Chile in the region of Atacama (III) and capital of a province of the same name. ...
Area
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Ranked 4th
75,176.2 km² Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
Population
- 2002 Census - Density 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: Ï - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ...
Ranked 11th
254,336 3.4/km²
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Atacama is Chile's third administrative region from north to south. It is some 800 km north of the capital Santiago. ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication... Santiagos Metropolitan Cathedral Santiago (officially in Spanish Santiago de Chile) is Chiles capital and largest city. ...
The desert itself, c.2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level, is a series of dry salt basins flanked on the W by the Pacific coastal range, averaging c.2,500 ft (760 m) high, and on the E by the Andes.
A port on the Pacific, it exports nitrates and ore from the Atacama Desert.
The Atacama desert of Chile is a virtually rainless plateau made up of salt basins (salares), sand, and lava flows, extending from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
The Atacama Desert is the driest desert on Earth (except perhaps for the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica) and is virtually sterile because it is blocked from moisture on both sides by the Andes mountains and by coastal mountains.
The Atacama has rich deposits of copper and other minerals, and the world's largest natural supply of sodium nitrate, which was mined on a large scale until the early 1940s.
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