Tierra Atacama just reopened in the Chilean high-altitude desert. Travel + Leisure was the first to stay—read our full review ...

Flamingos are not just Florida lawn decor—they are a remarkable bird that thrives in the driest desert on the planet. In ...

Standing in the middle of the Atacama Desert, it’s easy to feel like the only person on Earth. The region is isolated and one of the driest regions in the world. Drier deserts can only be found ...

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and ... With the Andes Mountains forming a barrier to clouds gathering above the Amazon ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

The country, dubbed "The Ribbon Country" because of its unique shape, stretches for a whopping 2,600 miles along the western coast and has an average width of just 110 miles. Chile's slenderness is ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — China struck a defiant stance on Tuesday in response to American concerns about Beijing's efforts to expand its influence in the resource-rich South American nation of Chile, ...

Located in the central part of the continent, Bolivia has a varied terrain spanning the Andes Mountains, the Atacama Desert and Amazon Basin rainforest. It is also home to Lake Titicaca ...

And there's every chance you'll also see desert ... best the Atacama can manage is windswept salt flats populated by uppity llamas with pretentious names. Discover the gains of mountain biking ...

The U.S., the European Union, Australia and a range of other countries operate observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert ... air and the cloud-blocking Andes Mountains to the east — produces ...