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Puna de Atacama. The Argentinian part is in green and the Chilean in orange.
Salar de Atacama salt flat in the Chilean puna
Cono de Arita, Salta (Argentina)
Salar de Atacama with the volcanoes Pular (L), Cerro Pajonales (center left) and Socompa (R) in the distance. The 1899 border runs through Socompa.

The Puna de Atacama or Atacama Plateau[1] is an arid high plateau, in the Andes of northern Chile (15%) and northwest of Argentina (85%).[2] Geomorphologist Walther Penck based his Grossfalt landform association on Puna de Atacama.[3]

  1. ^ Atacama Plateau article at the Encyclopædia Britannica website
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Historia de la relacciones exteriores de la Argentina Archived 2009-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Simons, Martin (1962), "The morphological analysis of landforms: A new review of the work of Walther Penck (1888-1923)", Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers), 31 (31): 1–14, doi:10.2307/621083, JSTOR 621083

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