The Escondida Mine exploits the sodium nitrate, gold, and copper resources that led to a series of border wars in the 1800's.
The town of Calama and the La Silla and Paranal Observatories are located within this area, but Iquique and Antofagasta are more famous cities. The Escondida Mine exploits the sodium nitrate, gold, and copper resources that led to a series of border wars in the 1800's. The Pan-American Highway passes through the region, lying south of the Altiplano in an ultra-dry rain shadow zone east of a region of the Andes. FTP, name this incredibly dry desert of northern Chile.
The town of Calama and the La Silla and Paranal Observatories are located within this area, but Iquique and Antofagasta are more famous cities.
Atacama Desert (prompt on Chile before "rain shadow")