The Puna de Atacama is located among the mountains west of Salta in Argentina and extends to the border with Bolivia and Chile. Its altitude is about 3,500 metres and it has a desert climate with little precipitation.
The name probably comes from Quechua, an Indian dialect and means "cold. remote place". The presence of volcanoes has brought minerals from the earth to the surface, colouring the landscape. It is a sparsely populated area with only a few villages.
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