Crossword-Solution: ATACAMA
We have 23 clues for the answer “ATACAMA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Desert in Chile | 1 answer |
| plateau in South America, covering a 600 mile strip of land on the Pacific coast | 1 answer |
| Region of Chile used by NASA to test equipment for Mars missions | 1 answer |
| Pacific coast desert | 1 answer |
| One-vowel desert | 1 answer |
| Desert whose soil has been compared to that of Mars | 1 answer |
| Desert that's the driest place in the world | 1 answer |
| Desert southwest of the Altiplano | 1 answer |
| Desert region of Chile | 1 answer |
| Desert of western Chile | 1 answer |
| Desert of Chile | 1 answer |
| Chilean wasteland, rich in nitrates | 1 answer |
| Chilean wasteland | 1 answer |
| Chilean desert, rich in nitrates | 1 answer |
| Chile's -- Desert | 1 answer |
| Chile successfully fought Bolivia for it | 1 answer |
| CHILEAN desert | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American desert | 2 answers |
| CHEST COMPLAINT TREATED AGAIN WITH NITRATES, PRIMARILY | 10 answers |
| CHILEAN WRITER | 10 answers |
| CHILEAN | 11 answers |
| CHILEAN province | 18 answers |
| DESERT of the World | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATACAMA (5)
Northward of these, there is one other very miserable valley, called Paposo, which contains about two hundred souls; and then there extends the real desert of Atacama--a barrier far worse than the most turbulent ocean.
South of them again, there is a long gap, and then another line of red dots--Arequiba, Chipicani, Gualatieri, Atacama,--as high as, or higher than those in Quito; and this, remember, is the other country which has just been shaken.
For some years Chilean companies and speculators, aided by foreign capital mainly British in origin, had been working deposits of nitrate of soda in the province of Antofagasta, or "the desert of Atacama," a region along the coast to the northward belonging to Bolivia, and also in the provinces of Tacna, Arica, and Tarapaca, still farther to the northward, belonging to Peru.
This country thereupon proceeded to levy an increased duty on the exportation of nitrates from the Atacama region.
Northward of these, there is one other very miserable valley, called Paposo, which contains about two hundred souls; and then there extends the real desert of Atacama—a barrier far worse than the most turbulent ocean.
Quotes with ATACAMA (1)
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Slate, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1983–2024).