Answer:
The landscapes of Chile is similar to the North America's West Coast from deserts thru tundra, which comprises a wide range of lands and weather conditions across a large geographic scale, extending across 38 degrees in latitude, making generalisations difficult.
Chile's general morphology comprises on the Andes (east), the central valley and the coastal mountains and their bays (west). Chile hosts at least seven major climatic subtypes, ranging from desert in the north, to alpine tundra and glaciers in the east and south east, oceanic template rain forest in the south and Mediterranean climate in the fine wine-lands of Santiago and central Chile, which is amazingly similar to the Central Valley of California!