The four-unit VLT or "Very Large Telescope" of the Paranal Observatory is located in this region. It is the location of the abandoned Escondida copper mine as well as 170 abandoned nitrate mining towns. National Geographic and the World Wildlife Fund disagree on this region's boundaries with National Geographic arguing it extends further into Peru. The town of Yungay in this region receives less than a millimeter of rain a year. FTP, name this primarily Chilean desert near the Andes that is widely considered the driest place in the world.
The four-unit VLT or "Very Large Telescope" of the Paranal Observatory is located in this region. It is the location of the abandoned Escondida copper mine as well as 170 abandoned nitrate mining towns. National Geographic and the World Wildlife Fund disagree on this region's boundaries with National Geographic arguing it extends further into Peru. The town of Yungay in this region receives less than a millimeter of rain a year. FTP, name this primarily Chilean desert near the Andes that is widely considered the driest place in the world.
The four-unit VLT or "Very Large Telescope" of the Paranal Observatory is located in this region.
Atacama Desert