drive to the LAGUNA Miscanti & Miñiques - CHILE [4K]

In this video I will show you my amazing drive from San Pedro de Atacama to Laguna Miscanti und Miñiques in Chile in February 2019. We drive the Ruta 23 through the Atacama Desert. On this drive we have had an amazing landscape. We drive this way with my Hertz rental car, a Toyota RAV4 2016 4WD For contact: [email protected] Edit: Final Cut Pro X My Camera for this video: GoPro HERO7 Black - https://amzn.to/2V2lwJ3 More information: Miscanti Lake Miscanti Lake (Spanish: Laguna Miscanti) is a brackish water lake located in the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region, in northern Chile. Miñiques volcano and Cerro Miscanti tower over this lake. This heart-shaped lake has a deep blue color. The western shoreline of the lake is separated by less than 1 km from the drainage divide between the lake and the Salar de Atacama basins. Laguna Miscanti basin also has a common boundary with Salar de Talar basin. A lava flow from an eruption of Miñiques separated Miscanti Lake from Miñiques Lake. The lake is part of one of the seven sectors of Los Flamencos National Reserve. The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km (990 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains running through Chile and Peru. The Atacama Desert is the driest nonpolar desert in the world, as well as the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts and the largest fog desert in the world. Both regions have been used as experimentation sites on Earth for Mars expedition simulations. According to estimates, the Atacama Desert occupies 105,000 km2 (41,000 sq mi),[6] or 128,000 km2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes. The desert owes its extreme aridity to a constant temperature inversion due to the cool north-flowing Humboldt ocean current and to the presence of the strong Pacific anticyclone. The most arid region of the Atacama Desert is situated between two mountain chains (the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range) of sufficient height to prevent moisture advection from either the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean, a two-sided rain shadow. Despite modern views of Atacama Desert as fully devoid of vegetation in pre-Columbian and Colonial times, a large flatland area known as Pampa del Tamarugal was forested, with demand of firewood associated silver and saltpeter mining causing widespread deforestation in the 18th and 19th centuries