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Atacama Desert, Chile
Photograph by Richard Nowitz, National Geographic
The Atacama Desert covers 600 miles from Peru's southern border into northern Chile. At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, is the driest place on Earth. There are stretches where rain has never been measured.
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