This region lies mainly within its namesake province and Antofagasta province.  
It lends its name to a now extinct culture that has been mostly incorporated into the Aymara.  It lies between the south bend of the Loa River and the mountains separating the Salado-Copiapo drainage basins.  To the north it continues into another nation and the region of Tarapaca.  This region lies mainly within its namesake province and Antofagasta province.  FTP, name this cool and extremely dry desert in northern Chile.
It lends its name to a now extinct culture that has been mostly incorporated into the Aymara.  
Atacama Desert