ATACAMA

The Atacama Desert is the driest inhabited desert on Earth, 105,000 km2, which extends in northern Chile covering 14 degrees latitude with a maximum width of 180 km between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. A part of it is the Puna de Atacama or Altiplano at 3500 m.a.s.l. shared with Bolivia and Argentina.

ALTIPLANO

From Lake Titicaca to the south, the Andes mountain range separates into two, leaving between them a high plateau of Tertiary origin whose average altitude is 4,000 meters above sea level, a vast high plateau of at least 10° latitude that is shared by four countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

BOLIVIA

On the eastern edge of the great altiplano of Bolivia, southeast of Lake Titicaca, rises majestically the Cordillera Real, which some have called "the Himalayas of the New World" because it undoubtedly lives up to its name of Real.

PATAGONIA

A colossal tectonic cataclysm plunged the Andes Mountain Range into the sea, forming a totally dismembered geography in which archipelagos, fjords and channels are piled up from the Reloncaví Sound to Tierra del Fuego. To the east, Chilean Patagonia also includes the edges of the Argentine steppes and to the south, most of Tierra del Fuego and its archipelagos, as far as Cape Horn.