Deserts on 3 Continents, Part 2 -- the Atacama: Into the Sandbox on the Looney Front
With about 0.59 inches of rain a year the Atacama, high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, is the driest place on Earth, and very likely its oldest desert, going back 3 million years.
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