South America's answer to the Sahara, the southern part of the Atacama Desert is known as the "Mar de Dunas" with a "sea of dunes" that spans 335 square kilometres. At 550 metres, El Medanoso is ...

The ideal time to see the cacti bloom in deserts is usually from late March to early May. This timeframe can shift a bit ...

A mountain of discarded clothing and other rubbish in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is now so large it can be seen from space - and it's still growing.

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

category, from the Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia to Chile’s Atacama desert ... No two places are the same in South America, so it’s hard to know which region to explore first.

This current brings glacial waters from the south pole to South America. About 700 miles long, the Atacama Desert features sand dunes and low, coastal mountains of dry rock that descend into salt ...