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san pedro de atacama

San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region. It is a popular tourist destination. San Pedro de Atacama grew, over centuries, around an oasis in the Atacama desert. It is located east of Antofagasta, some 100 km (60 mi) southeast of Calama and the Chuquicamata copper mine, overlooking the Licancabur volcano (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 2500, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -22.9147, Lng.: -68.1942
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namib desert

of the Namib Desert. Note how the crests of the dunes are aligned in a marked northwest-southeast orientation. These crests form transverse to the formative wind (i.e. crosswise). The dunes act as obstacles, and obstacles cause winds to be deflected significantly to the right, in the southern hemisphere—in effect reorienting the southerly wind as a southwesterly wind (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: NA, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -24.7518, Lng.: 15.2765
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atacama large millimeter array

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international astronomy project that consists of an astronomical interferometer formed from an array of radio telescopes, located at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. The telescope is expected to revolutionise modern astronomy by providing an insight on star formation in the early (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -23.0192, Lng.: -67.7531
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llano de chajnantor observatory

Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at 5104 m altitude in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the north of San Pedro de Atacama. It is a very dry site - inhospitable to humans - but an excellent site for submillimetre astronomy. Water vapour absorbs and attenuates submillimetre radiation and thus a dry site is required for this type of (...)
Feature: , Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -23.0229, Lng.: -67.7549
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calama, chile

Calama is a city in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is the capital of El Loa Province, part of the Antofagasta Region. Calama is one of the driest cities in the world with average annual precipitation of just 5 mm (0.2 inches). The River Loa, Chile's longest, flows through the city. Calama has a population of 143,000 (2005 census) (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 140700, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -22.4667, Lng.: -68.9333
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caldera, chile

. It has an excellent harbor, protected by breakwaters, being the port city for the productive mining district centring on Copiapó to which it is connected by the first railroad constructed in Chile. In 1903, 2,130 people lived in Caldera. (Current population ca 14.000 inhabitants) (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 14000, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -27.0672, Lng.: -70.8183
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copiapó

Copiapó is the capital of the Atacama Region and of the Province of Copiapó, in Chile. It was founded on December 8, 1744 by the governor José Antonio Manso de Velasco. Copiapó is located at , near the port city and coastal resort of Caldera, Chile. The population of Copiapó was 9,128 in 1903, 11,617 in 1907 and, as of 2002, there are 129,091 inhabitants (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -27.3667, Lng.: -70.3333
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iquique

, capital of Tarapacá Region, on the Pacific coast, just west of the Atacama Desert and the Pampa del Tamarugal. It had a population of 216,419 as of the 2002 census[http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/home.php Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas], Censos 2002, accessed 10 July 2007 (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 221400, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -20.2167, Lng.: -70.1667
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cerro paranal

Cerro Paranal (Paranal Hill in Spanish), also known as Paranal Mountain is a mountain in the Atacama desert of northern Chile that is home to the Paranal Observatory. It is famous for hosting the Very Large Telescope and the VLT Survey Telescope. It is located 120 km south of Antofagasta and 80 km north of Tal-Tal, 12 km inland (...)
Feature: mountain, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -24.6272, Lng.: -70.4047
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llullaillaco

at the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world. Llullaillaco is the second highest active volcano in the world, surpassed only by Ojos del Salado (...)
Feature: mountain, Country Code: AR, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -24.72, Lng.: -68.53
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humberstone and santa laura saltpeter works

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Other saltpeter works or "nitrate towns" include Chacabuco, Maria Elena, Pedro de Valdivia, Puelma and Aguas Santas among many others (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -20.2, Lng.: -69.8
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escondida

"hidden") mine is a copper open-pit mine with the largest production in the world, representing 8 percent of all world production. It is located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, nearly 160 kilometers southeast of Antofagasta. Escondida produces copper concentrate from sulphide ore by means of a flotation process, and copper cathodes from oxide ore using a leaching process (...)
Feature: , Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -24.2694, Lng.: -69.0706
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atacama cosmology telescope

in the north of Chile. It is designed to make high-resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). At an altitude of 5190 metres (17030 feet), it is currently the highest permanent, ground-based telescope in the world (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -22.9587, Lng.: -67.7879
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antofagasta

:''For the copper-mining company named after the region, see Antofagasta plc''. is a port city and episcopal see in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of both Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2002 census, it has a municipal population of 296,905 and an urban area population of 318,779[http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/home (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 306700, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -23.65, Lng.: -70.4
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mejillones

Mejillones is a Chilean port city and commune in Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region. It is situated in the northern side of Mejillones Peninsula, 60 km north of Antofagasta. To the west, in the northern part of peninsula, is ''Punta de Angamos'', site of the naval combat of the same name, fought during the War of the Pacific (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 9000, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -23.1, Lng.: -70.45
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antofalla

Antofalla is a large and very remote stratovolcano in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina. It is located on the edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert. It lies just west of the Salar de Antofalla, a large playa over 140 km (90 mi) in length (...)
Feature: mountain, Country Code: AR, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -25.53, Lng.: -68
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aracar

Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has an uneroded summit crater about 1.5 km (1 mi) in diameter which contains a small crater lake. It is located on the edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert (...)
Feature: mountain, Country Code: AR, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -24.25, Lng.: -67.7667
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pica, chile

an town and commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. Situated in the inland of the Atacama Desert on an oasis, Pica is famous for its small and unusually acidic lemons. The town has a communal spring with a surface temperature of 40º Celsius, which makes it a popular bath place in the middle of the dessert. It has hotels and all basic services (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -20.5, Lng.: -69.35
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cerro del bolsón

Cerro del Bolsón is a mountain in the Aconquija range of Argentina, in Tucumán province. It is the highest point of a significant eastern spur of the main range of the Andes, east of the Puna de Atacama region. It lies about 200 kilometres east of Ojos del Salado, the highest point in the Puna de Atacama (...)
Feature: mountain, Country Code: AR, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -27.2142, Lng.: -66.0942
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european southern observatory

The European Southern Observatory (ESO, also more formally the ''European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere'') is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy, composed and supported by twelve countries from the European Union plus Switzerland (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: DE, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 48.26, Lng.: 11.6711
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chacabuco

Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works. Unlike most of the other ghost towns in the Atacama Desert, Chacabuco became a concentration camp during the Pinochet regime in 1973 (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: CL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -23.147, Lng.: -69.6152
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