What Latin American countries have a similar climate to Europe?

[curupira]

A map with the desertic and semi-arid large areas of Chile and Argentina, unlike any part of Europe:

Un desierto es un bioma que recibe pocas precipitaciones. Tienen reputación de poseer poca vida, pero eso depende de la clase de desierto; en muchos existe vida abundante, la vegetación se adapta a la poca humedad (matorral xerófilo) y la fauna usualmente se esconde durante el día para preservar humedad. El establecimiento de grupos sociales en los desiertos es complicado y requiere de una importante adaptación a las condiciones extremas que en ellos imperan.

Summing up the text above:

Desertic areas receive little rain. Generally, few animals live there, and the vegetation there is adapted to little humidity. It is extremely complicated for human groups to settle there given their extreme prevailing conditions.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desierto

[dude]

Of course New Europe..err, I mean Argentina.

[Brighton]

Yes, but according to this map the most distinctively European zones are the temperate Atlantic and the Mediterranean climate zones, that aren't present with a similar extent anywhere else.

It seems that in Lat. Am such natural conditions are only found in Chile:

EXACTLY.

To be more precise, only in Central and Southern Chile.

I've been throughout the Argentinian Patagonia. It is nothing like Europe.

Central Chile is similar to Southern Europe, whilst Southern Chile is similar to Central and Northern Europe.

[Brighton]

A map with the desertic and semi-arid large areas of Chile and Argentina, unlike any part of Europe:

Yeah you're right, Brazil's climate is a lot more similar than the European climate. We're all wrong. Thanks for enlightening us.

[curupira]

I did not claim the climate of Brazil to be like that of Europe, that would be ridiculous. Don't twist my words.

I only mentioned at least a large part of Chile is desertic semi-arid unlike any part of Europe:

The Atacama desert:

Yeah you're right, Brazil's climate is a lot more similar than the European climate. We're all wrong. Thanks for enlightening us.

[Brighton]

I did not claim the climate of Brazil to be like that of Europe, that would be ridiculous. Don't twist my words.

I only mentioned at least a large part of Chile is desertic semi-arid unlike any part of Europe:

The Atacama desert:

It's hardly a "large" part. The semi-cold part with a lot of rain and snow -similar to Northern France, Germany, UK- is bigger than the semi-arid part.

Look (square kilometres).

Arica-Tarapacá: 59 + Antofagasta: 126 + Atacama: 75. Total: 260 -> Semi-arid
Araucania: 31 + Los Rios-Los Lagos: 67 + Aysen: 108 + Magallanes: 132. Total: 337 -> Semi-Cold

The South is also most populated than the North (2 milions 300 vs. 1 million 300).

Most people live in the Mediterranean zone though (Central Chile), which is similar to Spain, Italy, Southern France.

[Brighton]

A map with the desertic and semi-arid large areas of Chile and Argentina, unlike any part of Europe:

and looking well, this map doesn't even include Atacama. Only Arica + Tarapacá + Antofagasta.

three regions which composes a 6% of the Chilean population

[curupira]

The Köppen-Geiger climate classification shows it well, both the Atacama region and the Patagonia share the same climate mainly out of being desertic/semi-arid lands... That kind of climate does seem to cover a good portion of Chile.

South America :

[curupira]

The Köppen-Geiger map shows other places in the world with climate similar to those of the Atacama and Patagonian regions... the Gobi desertic region in China (unpopulated too) is one of them (and also the desertic region in Namibia and South Africa in the African continent):

[Brighton]

The Köppen-Geiger climate classification shows it well, both the Atacama region and the Patagonia share the same climate mainly out of being desertic/semi-arid lands... That kind of climate does seem to cover a good portion of Chile.

South America :

I honestly think that, as obviously Brazil doesn't have the same climate as Europe, you don't want any country to have a similar climate to Europe.

So it seems that your objective in this thread is making to look both Chile and Argentina as desertic countries. Good luck with that