Paposo
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Quebrada de Medano, 18 km north of Paposo. Paposo or Caleta Paposo is a hamlet in the southern part of Antofagasta Province, Chile. It is located on a narrow coastal plain bordering the Pacific Ocean. The census of 2002 counted 259 inhabitants, who predominantly relied on fishing and mining for a living. Paposo has a desert climate, but "fog oases" exist on mountain slopes near the sea. In a region almost devoid of vegetation, these oases, also called lomas, support a variety of flora found from about to inland.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Atacama Desert, Hamlets in Chile and Populated places in Antofagasta Province.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Antofagasta Region
- Elevation
- 1875
- Image
- Valeriana atacamensis - Flickr - Pato Novoa.jpg
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- inception
- 1679-00-00
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- Geography and climate
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thumb|250px|Quebrada de Medano, 18 km north of Paposo. Paposo or Caleta Paposo is a hamlet in the southern part of Antofagasta Province, Chile. It is located on a narrow coastal plain bordering the Pacific Ocean. The census of 2002 counted 259 inhabitants, who predominantly relied on fishing and mining for a living. Paposo has a desert climate, but "fog oases" exist on mountain slopes near the sea. In a region almost devoid of vegetation, these oases, also called lomas, support a variety of flora found from about to inland.
==Geography and climate== Paposo is located adjacent to a cove on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar desert in the world. Vegetation is nearly absent in most of the Atacama. The foothills of the Andes rise steeply from the sea, reaching an elevation of less than from the sea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paposo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations