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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
51. Chile
verfasst von : C. J. Campbell
Erschienen in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
Chile is a long, narrow, mountainous country flanking the southern limits of the great Andean mountain chain of South America. Wide barren uplands, forming an extension of the Altiplano of Bolivia, give way southwards to mountain ranges, with the highest peak rising to almost 7,000 m. In the northwest of the country is the coastal Atacamas Desert, but most of the country enjoys a temperate, even Mediterranean climate. To the south is a highly indented terrain of fjords, lakes and islands. About one-tenth of the country is arable land, some providing rich pasture for cattle, with the rest being desert, wild mountain or forested terrain. It is drained by a number of relatively small rivers flowing westwards into the Pacific.