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    Salar de Atacama, located 55 km (34 mi) south of San Pedro de Atacama, is the largest salt flat in Chile. It is surrounded by mountains and lacks drainage...
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    complex Salar de Atacama Salar de Arizaro Puna grassland Tren a las Nubes Salta–Antofagasta railway Wikimedia Commons has media related to Puna de Atacama. Atacama...
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  • Chile Airport record for Salar de Atacama Airport at Landings.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12 Google (2013-09-12). "location of El Salar Airport" (Map). Google...
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    de Atacama Llamas in the sunset near San Pedro de Atacama Part of the Chaxas lagoon in the Salar de Atacama. Rainbow Valley. Atacama Desert Puna de Atacama...
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    The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
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    Lithium Triangle (category Geology of Atacama Region)
    the Atacama Desert and neighboring arid areas, the largest areas three main salt pants that define its vertex< Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, Salar de Atacama...
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    in the central-western area of the Puna de Atacama, it covers an area of 1,600 km2. Per extension, the Salar de Arizaro is the 6th largest salt flat in...
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    salt flats: Salar de Tara, located 120 kilometres east of San Pedro de Atacama and 440 kilometres northeast of Antofagasta, and Salar de Aguas Calientes...
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    Salar de Uyuni (or "Salar de Tunupa") is the world's largest salt flat, or playa, at over 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi) in area. It is in the...
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    Salar de Pajonales is a playa in the southern Atacama Region of Chile and the third-largest in that country, behind Salar de Punta Negra and Salar de...
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    production of potassium chloride from the Salar de Atacama. Production of lithium carbonate from the Salar del Carmen started in 1997. In the years that...
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    constructed roads from the Salar de Atacama to what is now northeast Argentina. In 1536, the first Spanish conquistadors, those of Diego de Almagro, arrived in...
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    east of the Gran Salar de Atacama in Chile's II Region. The mountain is located 6 km (4 mi) west of Acamarachi (also known as Cerro de Pili) and 12.5 km...
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    Pedro de Atacama, in the San Pedro de Atacama province of Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. It offers views overlooking the Salar de Atacama. The local...
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  • Monturaqui (category Atacama Desert)
    Monturaqui is an impact crater in Chile. It lies south of the Salar de Atacama and was formed 663,000 ± 90,000 years ago by the impact of an IAB meteorite...
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    feathers. Fossils attributed to Andean Flamingo have been found at the Salar de Atacama border and roughly date to the Early Formative period, approximately...
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    is a mountain range of the Andes located in northern Chile, west of Salar de Atacama. It runs north-south for approximately 600 km, parallel to the main...
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    mines, run by SQM and Albemarle, are both located on the Salar de Atacama salt flat in the Atacama Desert. Whilst certain groups and individuals among the...
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  • 4 g/L). The largest operations are in the shallow brine beneath the Salar de Atacama dry lakebed in Chile, which as of 2015 yielded about a third of the...
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  • elevation airport serving the mineral salt mining operations on the Salar de Atacama salt flat, in the Antofagasta Region of Chile.  Chile portal  Aviation...
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    Licancabur (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Altiplano and the Salar de Atacama. Southwest of Licancabur are the Vilama and San Pedro rivers, which flow to San Pedro de Atacama. Starting in the Jurassic...
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    Salar de Atacama basin borders the Puna de Atacama to the west, which in turn is bordered by the Cordillera Domeyko. The western side of the Puna de Atacama...
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    The Puna de Atacama dispute, sometimes referred to as Puna de Atacama Lawsuit (Spanish: Litigio de la Puna de Atacama), was a border dispute involving...
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    stretching along the eastern side of the much greater Salar de Atacama. The closed drainage basin of Salar de Talar encompasses about 476 km2 and is adjacent...
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  • Is Blowing the Electric-Car Revolution". The Wall Street Journal. Salar de Atacama, Chile. Years after the factory's 2013 opening, production is virtually...
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    such as the Salar de Atacama and the Salar de Punta Negra, the Cordillera de Domeyko, the Central Depression and finally the Cordillera de la Costa. With...
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    Pular (volcano) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    volcano. The ridge's crest forms a drainage divide between Salar de Atacama basin and Salar de Pular basin. This latter is a bowl-shaped basin enclosed...
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    485 m (8,153 ft) above sea level, close to the northeast margin of the Salar de Atacama. The most notable building in Toconao is its church. The bell tower...
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  • of the Andes located in northern Chile, south of both Cordón de Lila and Salar de Atacama. Geologically it is made up of a batholith of Cambrian and Ordovician...
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  • duo head across the Atacama Desert towards the border at Portezuelo del Cajón with Bolivia, stopping to admire the Salar de Atacama and the Licancabur...
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