Limón de Pica is an unusually acidic

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from the oasis town of Pica in

Atacama Desert The Atacama Desert () is a desert plateau located on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching over a strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of , which increases to if the barre ...

. The Limones de Pica have had an

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of origin since 2010. The environment where the limes are grown has a mild

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that does not display the typical high temperature oscillations seen in many of the world's deserts. Six producers, compromising 20% of the agricultural output of the oasis, are organised in Oasis Pica Coop. , the coop was working to certify its products as

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and enforce the appellation control of limón de Pica. The original version of the whisky sour invented by Elliott Stubb in

Iquique Iquique () is a port List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region. It lies on the Pacific coast, west of the Pampa del Tamarugal, which is part of the At ...

in 1872 is made with limón de Pica.

References

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