Atacama oases

E557010

The Atacama oases are fertile, inhabited pockets of greenery scattered through Chile’s hyper-arid Atacama Desert, historically home to the Atacameño (Likan Antai) people and their distinctive desert-adapted culture.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Atacama oases canonical 1
Quillagua oasis 1
San Pedro de Atacama oasis 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
oasis system
characteristic fertile pockets of greenery
irrigated agriculture
permanent or semi-permanent water sources
terraced fields
traditional adobe settlements
climate extremely low annual precipitation
culture Atacameño culture
Likan Antai culture
environment hyper-arid desert
hasPart Calama oasis NERFINISHED
Camar oasis
Chiu Chiu oasis NERFINISHED
Machuca oasis NERFINISHED
Peine oasis NERFINISHED
Quillagua oasis NERFINISHED
Río Loa valley oases
Salar de Atacama margin oases
San Pedro de Atacama oasis NERFINISHED
Socaire oasis NERFINISHED
Talabre oasis NERFINISHED
Toconao oasis NERFINISHED
historicallyControlledBy Inca Empire NERFINISHED
Spanish Empire NERFINISHED
historicallyPartOf pre-Columbian Andean trade networks
inhabitedBy Atacameño people NERFINISHED
Likan Antai people NERFINISHED
languageAssociated Kunza NERFINISHED
locatedIn Atacama Desert
Chile
South America
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Antofagasta Region NERFINISHED
Arica y Parinacota Region NERFINISHED
Tarapacá Region NERFINISHED
mainCrops alfalfa
fruit trees
maize
quinoa
vegetables
modernEconomicActivity services for mining sector
tourism
partOf Central Andean dry puna ecoregion NERFINISHED
religionAssociated Andean indigenous beliefs
usedFor archaeological research
pastoralism
small-scale agriculture
tourism
waterSource groundwater
snowmelt from Andes
spring-fed streams

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kunza culturalRegion Atacama oases
Loa River hasOasis Atacama oases
this entity surface form: Quillagua oasis
Atacameño people traditionalRegion Atacama oases
this entity surface form: San Pedro de Atacama oasis