It also holds the Escondida Mine, the world's largest open-pit (*) copper mine, and this desert suffers from a double rain shadow from the Corderilla Domeyko to the east and the Andes mountains to the west.
It contains the world's largest supply of sodium nitrate, and isolation and clarity of the skies also make it home to a number of telescopic observatories including the Paranal. It also holds the Escondida Mine, the world's largest open-pit (*) copper mine, and this desert suffers from a double rain shadow from the Corderilla Domeyko to the east and the Andes mountains to the west. FTP, name this driest place on Earth, a long 600 mile stretch of desert in South America.
It contains the world's largest supply of sodium nitrate, and isolation and clarity of the skies also make it home to a number of telescopic observatories including the Paranal.
{Atacama} Desert