Chilean desert landscapes – Marvels of Nature https://marvelsofnature.com Discover, Protect, and Celebrate Nature's Majesty Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:40:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://marvelsofnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-Marvels-of-Nature-512x512-1-150x150.webp Chilean desert landscapes – Marvels of Nature https://marvelsofnature.com 32 32 Dry Atacama Desert https://marvelsofnature.com/atacama-desert/ Mon, 20 May 2024 23:33:28 +0000 https://marvelsofnature.com/?p=2115 The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place outside the polar areas. It gets less rain than polar deserts do. Covering 105,000 square miles (128,000 square miles with the Andes’ lower slopes), this vast dry land astonishes. It is all thanks to the cooling Humboldt Ocean current and the strong Pacific anticyclone. These make a unique weather mix that rarely, if ever, brings rain.

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