CHILE | Thursday, 4 July 2013 | Views [338] | View Larger Image
With more than 1000 kilometers of scorching sand, the Atacama Desert, at the west of Los Andes mountains in Chile, is known as the driest place in the world. Sunrays sting the soil like roasting daggers while lamas and vicuñas, the “Chilean camels”, search a bit of dried grass to eat. The amount of rain per year is approximately 1-15 milimiters, there are some regions in Atacama that have never been rinsed at all because rain mostly falls at the sea. The “camanchaca”, the matinal marine fog, may be one of the few water sources for cactus, moss and lichens that grow in the area.
