Despite its extreme dryness, the desert is known as world's largest fog desert, with fog providing some moisture, particularly in coastal areas ...

A stunning seaside city is one of the driest places on earth, seeing less than a centimetre of rain annually. Arica, a port city in northern Chile, is part of the Atacama Desert, the driest non ...

Receiving just 0.5 millimetres of rainfall per year on average, the Atacama receives 50 times less rain ... to the desert, but Chile, Peru and Bolivia were all the more interested, and after ...

A place that receives less than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain per year is considered ... The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less than ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert ... mining in Chile and was named after the British chemical engineer James ...