The coastal Atacama desert is the driest in the world and almost totally barren. The landscape of the moon offers an obvious comparison, except that the Atacama has as its backdrop the towering Andes, which block tropical storms from the Amazon Basin to the east. There can be torrential rains in some areas of the desert, causing flash floods and sudden, ephemeral bursts of vegetation.
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You're just like National Geographic!
And I thought only people could be like this...
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