The Pajarito Mountains (Sierra Pajaritos) are a small

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

in the

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 ...

of Chile on the west coast of South America. Together with Paico Peak (Cerro El Paico) they divide the Algarrobal Basin into two hydrological units.

Notes and references

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