The Salta-Antofagasta railways passes through a plateau, what percentage of which is in Chile?
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Salta–Antofagasta railway The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, is a non-electrified single track railway line that links Argentina and Chile passing through the Andes. It is a railway with a total length of 941 km (571 in Argentina and 330 in Chile), connecting the city of Salta (Argentina) to the one of Antofagasta (Chile), on the Pacific Ocean, passing through the Puna de Atacama and Atacama Desert.
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Puna de Atacama The Puna de Atacama or Atacama Plateau is an arid high plateau, in the Andes of northern Chile (15%) and Argentina (85%). Geomorphologist Walther Penck based his "Grossfalt" landform association on Puna de Atacama.
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San Pedro de Atacama Airport San Pedro de Atacama Airport (Spanish: "Aeropuerto de San Pedro de Atacama" ) (ICAO: SCPE) is a high elevation airport serving San Pedro de Atacama, a town in the Antofagasta Region of Chile. The airport is 3 km east of the town.
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Chacabuco Province Chacabuco Province (Spanish: "Provincia de Chacabuco" ) is one of six provinces of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in central Chile. It is located north of the Province of Santiago, which is entirely urbanized and part of the Santiago conurbation. The provincial capital, Colina, lies approximately 27 km north of Santiago.
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Tacora Tacora is a stratovolcano located in the Andes of the Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile. Bordering Peru, it is the northernmost volcano of Chile. Tacora has a summit elevation of 5,980 meters above sea level, and rises 1,721 meters above the surrounding landscape.
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Salar de Carcote Salar de Carcote, also known as Salar de San Martín, is a salt flat in northern Chile. The salar is located southwest of Ollagüe. It covers an area of around 108 km² and its surface elevation is 3,690 m. The landscape of the area is dominated by the volcanoes Ollagüe to the east and Aucanquilcha to the north. Salar de Carcote basin is bordered by the Loa River basin to the west and the Salar de Ascotán basin to the south.
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Santiago Metro The Santiago Metro (Spanish: "Metro de Santiago" ) is the underground railway network serving the city of Santiago, Chile. This network is one of the most modern in Latin America, being the second largest following the Mexico City Metro, and it is 7th in frequency worldwide. It currently has five lines, 108 stations, and 103 km of revenue route. This service is managed by the state-owned Metro S.A. and is the first of three urban railway systems in Chile, along with the Biotrén of Concepción (1999) and Merval of Valparaíso (2005).
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Latacunga Latacunga is a plateau town of Ecuador, capital of the Cotopaxi Province, 89 km south of Quito, near the confluence of the Alaquez and Cutuchi rivers to form the Patate, the headstream of the Pastaza. At the time of census 2010 Latacunga had 98,355 inhabitants, largely mestizo and indigenous.
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Aysén Region The XI Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region (Spanish: "Región de Aysén" ] "XI Región Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo "), often shortened to Aysén Region or Aisén, is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. Although the third largest in area, the region is Chile's most sparsely populated region with a population of 102,317 as of 2017. The capital of the region is Coihaique, the region's former namesake.
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Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile Tierra del Fuego Province (Spanish: "Provincia de Tierra del Fuego" ) is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena (XII). It includes the Chilean or western part of the main island of Tierra del Fuego, except for the part south of the Cordillera Darwin, which is in Antártica Chilena Province. (Argentina also has a Tierra del Fuego Province.)
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Cerros de Incahuasi Cerros de Incahuasi is a mountain with several summits located in the Antofagasta Region of Chile, near Sico Pass.
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Miño Volcano Miño Volcano is a symmetrical cone-shaped stratovolcano located in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile. It lies a few kilometres northwest of Aucanquilcha volcano and at its foot originates Loa River. The major settlement in its vicinity is Ollagüe. The volcano has erupted mafic andesite. Potassium-argon dating has yielded ages of 3.59±0.11 and 3.27±0.40 million years ago for Miño. This volcano is usually considered part of Aucanquilcha, and lava flows appear to originate from the summit.
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Saltos Acima Saltos Acima or Saltos de Cima is a village and a plateau in the northcentral part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde in the northeast end of the municipality of Santa Catarina, located 1 kilometer south of the boundary with São Miguel. Its 2010 population was 105. It is situated 5 km northeast of Assomada and is about 2 km northeast on the Assomada-Calheta de São Miguel Road. Its nearby settlement includes Pingo Chuva to the south, to the north is Tagarra which is in the municipality of São Miguel.
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Cotacotani Lake Laguna de Cotacotani (hispanicized expression) or Quta Qutani (Aymara "quta" lake, the reduplication signifies there is a group or complex of something, "-ni" is a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a group of lakes" ) is a lake located in the Andean Altiplano of the Parinacota Province, Arica-Parinacota Region, Chile. It lies 4 km northwest of Chungará Lake, which is one of the highest lakes in the world and is surrounded by several volcanoes, such as the Payachata volcanic group (Parinacota and Pomerape), Sajama volcano and Wallatiri.
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Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake The Pueyrredón/Cochrane Lake is a glacier fed lake located on the eastern edge of the southern Andes, straddling the border between Argentina and Chile. It is named after Lord Cochrane on the Chilean side and Pueyrredón on the Argentina side. The border is a peninsula that juts out into the lake on the north side. The border to the north of the lake follows the ridgeline of the last major expression of the eastern Andes. The Argentine portion of the lake has a surface of 150 km2 , while the portion in Chile covers 175 km2 .
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Nevado Tres Cruces National Park Nevado Tres Cruces National Park (] ) Located in the Atacama Region of Chile at 93.2 miles from Copiapó. It includes Laguna Santa Rosa, Laguna del Negro Francisco, and a part of the Salar de Maricunga. The park is divided into two zones, the northern zone encompassing the southern portion of Salar de Maricunga and Laguna Santa Rosa, and the southern area the Laguna del Negro Francisco. The park is named after Nevado Tres Cruces, which dominates the landscape of the area.
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Pirihueico Lake Pirihueico Lake (Spanish: "Lago Pirihueico" , ] ) is one of Seven Lakes in Panguipulli Commune, southern Chile. The lake is of glacial origin and it is enclosed mountains of the Andes. It is located in a geological fault that includes Panguipulli Lake and Lácar Lake in Argentina. The lake is drained by Fui River. Pirihueico Lake is used as a waterway due to its elonged shape. It is used mostly by vehicles traveling to or from Argentina by the nearby Huahum Pass. For that reason there is a ferry operating between Puerto Fuy and Puerto Pirihueico in the western respectively eastern extreme of the lake.
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Altiplano Cundiboyacense The Altiplano Cundiboyacense is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. The altiplano corresponds to the ancient territory of the Muisca. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense comprises three distinctive flat regions; the Bogotá savanna, the valleys of Ubaté and Chiquinquirá, and the valleys of Duitama and Sogamoso. The average altitude of the altiplano is about 2600 m above sea level but ranges from roughly 2500 m to 4000 m .
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Wila Qullu (Bolivia-Chile) Wila Qullu (Aymara "wila" red or blood, "qullu" mountain, "red mountain", Hispanicized spelling "Wila Kkollu"), also Cerro Laguna (Spanish "cerro" hill, "laguna" lake, lagoon), is a 4948 m mountain in the Andes located on the border of Bolivia and Chile in the Cordillera Occidental. Wila Qullu lies between the Salar de Huasco in the Tarapacá Region of Chile and the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. On the Bolivian side it is situated in the Potosí Department, Daniel Campos Province, Llica Municipality, Canquella Canton, north of the village of Pampa Anta.
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Salar de Surire Natural Monument Salar de Surire Natural Monument is a Chilean Natural Monument located in the Andes, in the Arica y Parinacota Region. It consists mainly of a salt flat and a number of small salt lakes, sheltering several Andean species of wildlife and plants. Arintica volcano towers over the salt flat.
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Minera Escondida Minera Escondida (which means 'hidden' in Spanish) is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world. Its 2007 production of 1.483 million tons of the metal was worth US$ 10.12 billion, mainly as metal in concentrate, but some as cathode, and was 9.5% of world output and 26% of Chilean production, according to the US Geological Survey's preliminary estimates of 2007 world mine output.
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Calabozos Calabozos is a Holocene caldera in central Chile's Maule Region (7th Region). Part of the Chilean Andes' volcanic segment, it is considered a member of the Southern Volcanic Zone (SVZ), one of the three distinct volcanic belts of South America. This most active section of the Andes runs along central Chile's western edge, and includes more than 70 of Chile's stratovolcanoes and volcanic fields. Calabozos lies in an extremely remote area of poorly glaciated mountains.