Situated in the north of the nation of Chile lies one of the most extreme environments on planet Earth, the Atticama Desert.

What makes the Atticama Desert so unique isn't its size or its temperature, but rather the amount of precipitation it gets, or the lack thereof.

Its precipitation that defines what a desert is, and by that logic, the Atticama is the most

desert of all the deserts.

Learn more about the Atticama Desert and is the most deserty of all the deserts.

Learn more about the Adacama Desert,

and what makes it so different and special

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The other common The Adakama Desert is located in what is the northernmost 20% of Chile, with bits of it

bleeding over into southern Peru, southwestern Bolivia, and Northwestern Argentina.

It's sandwiched between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean

along 1,600 kilometers or 990 miles of land.

Depending on how you define it, it has an area of approximately 105,000

square kilometers or 41,000 square miles.

It would be a little bit bigger than Iceland.

In terms of size, it would only be the 25th largest desert in the world, behind a bunch of better

known and lesser known deserts.

The average temperature in the Atticama is not nearly as hot as you might think.

It has an average temperature of

only 68 degrees Fahrenheit or 20 degrees Celsius. None of these statistics are

particularly special, so why bother doing an episode on the Attachama Desert?

It's because the Atticama Desert?

It's because the Atticama Desert is one of the driest places on Earth.

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