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Atacama Region

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The Atacama Region (III Región de Atacama) is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. [1]

53 relations: Administrative division, Antofagasta Region, Apricot, Argentina, Atacama Desert, Aysén Region, Caldera, Chile, Capsicum, Catamarca Province, Chañaral, Chañaral Province, Chañarcillo, Chango people, Chile, Christian Democratic Party (Chile), Citrus, Codelco, Concentrated solar power, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Copiapó Valley, Coquimbo Region, Darwin's rhea, Diaguita, Diego de Almagro, Chile, El Salvador, Chile, Endangered species, Flag of Atacama, Flower, Fruit, Huasco, Huasco Province, Human overpopulation, Iron, La Rioja Province, Argentina, Magallanes Region, Mining, Norte Grande, Olive, Onion, Oregano, Pacific Ocean, Peach, Phelps Dodge, Photovoltaics, Politics of Chile, San Juan Province, Argentina, Santiago, Subspecies, Tierra Amarilla, Chile, ..., Tomato, Vallenar, Vicia faba. Expand index (3 more) »

Administrative division

An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, statoid, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration.

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Antofagasta Region

The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions.

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Apricot

An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus (stone fruits).

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America (primarily in Chile), covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.

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Aysén Region

The Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region (Región de Aysén,, XI Región Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo), often shortened to Aysén Region or Aisén,Examples of name usage:, official regional government site refers to the region as "Región de Aysén".

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Caldera, Chile

Caldera is a port city and commune in the Copiapó Province of the Atacama Region in northern Chile.

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Capsicum

Capsicum (also known as peppers) is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Catamarca Province

Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country.

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Chañaral

Chañaral is a small coastal city and commune in the Atacama Region, Chile and capital of the Chañaral Province.

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Chañaral Province

Chañaral Province (Provincia de Chañaral) is one of three provinces in the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III).

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Chañarcillo

Chañarcillo is a town and mine in the Atacama Desert of Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile, located near Vallenar and 75 kilometres from Copiapó.

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Chango people

The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, were an indigenous people who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from the Atacama desert to the Coquimbo Region in what is now southern Peru and northern Chile.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christian Democratic Party (Chile)

The Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in Chile and governs as part of the Nueva Mayoría coalition.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

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Codelco

CODELCO (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile or, in English, the National Copper Corporation of Chile) is a Chilean state owned copper mining company.

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Concentrated solar power

Concentrated solar power (also called concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal, and CSP) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area.

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Copiapó

Copiapó is a city in northern Chile, located about 65 kilometers east of the coastal town of Caldera.

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Copiapó Province

Copiapó Province (Provincia de Copiapó) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III).

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Copiapó Valley

Copiapó Valley is located in Copiapó Province, Chile.

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Coquimbo Region

The Coquimbo Region (IV Región de Coquimbo) is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

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Darwin's rhea

The Darwin's rhea (Rhea pennata), also known as the lesser rhea, is a large flightless bird, but the smaller of the two extant species of rheas.

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Diaguita

The Diaguita people are a group of South American indigenous people native to the Chilean Norte Chico and the Argentine Northwest.

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Diego de Almagro, Chile

Diego de Almagro is a Chilean city and commune in Chañaral Province, Atacama Region.

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El Salvador, Chile

El Salvador is a mining town in the commune of Diego de Almagro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Flag of Atacama

The Flag of Atacama Region is one of the regional symbols of the Chilean Atacama Region.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Huasco

Huasco is a Chilean city and commune, in the Huasco Province, Atacama Region.

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Huasco Province

Huasco Province (Provincia de Huasco) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III).

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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La Rioja Province, Argentina

La Rioja is one of the provinces of Argentina and is located in the west of the country.

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Magallanes Region

The Region of Magallanes, officially the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Norte Grande

The Norte Grande (Big North, Far North, Great North) is one of the five natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Oregano

Oregano (Origanum vulgare) is a flowering plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae).

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Peach

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated.

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Phelps Dodge

Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two British sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James.

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Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics (PV) is a term which covers the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.

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Politics of Chile

Chile's government is a representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Chile is both head of state and head of government, and of a formal multi-party system that in practice behaves like a two-party one, due to binomialism.

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San Juan Province, Argentina

San Juan is a province of Argentina, located in the western part of the country.

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Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Tierra Amarilla, Chile

Tierra Amarilla is a Chilean commune and city in Copiapó Province, Atacama Region.

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Tomato

The tomato (see pronunciation) is the edible, often red, fruit/berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant.

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Vallenar

Vallenar is a city and commune in Atacama Region, Chile.

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Vicia faba

Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, field bean, bell bean, or tic bean, is a species of flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Region

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