智利是世界上最狭长的国家，高峻的安第斯山脉纵贯东部，西面濒临太平洋。尽管它离海很近，有取之不竭的水源，可是位于北部的阿塔卡马沙漠，却是世界上最干旱的地方，被称为世界的“旱极”。到1971年为止，它已经有400多年没下过雨了。阿塔卡马沙漠附近的一个城市伊基克，滨临 Chile is the narrowest country in the world, with the high and low Andean Mountains running through the east and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Although it is close to the sea and has inexhaustible sources of water, it is located in the Atacama desert in the north, but it is the driest place in the world. It is called the “drought pole” of the world. By 1971, it had been raining for more than 400 years. A city of Iquique near the Atacama Desert, on the edge of the city