Plants in the South American Desert

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Tip 1 - Plants in the South American Desert | eHow

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by damien matos | permalink

South America has two major deserts, based on the definition of areas with very little precipitation. The largest desert is the Patagonian in Southern Argentina. The Atacama Desert is a long, narrow coastal desert in Chile.

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Tip 2 - Animals That Live in the Atacama Desert

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Chile’s Atacama Desert runs for 600 miles along the Pacific Coast, with the Andes Mountains as its eastern border. Some parts of the desert have never recorded precipitation and are so arid ...

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Tip 3 - Top 9 Plants Commonly found in Deserts - Listovative

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What is it that sets a desert apart from other landscapes? Yes, it is the ocean of sands everywhere till our eyesight start to ache, the low precipitation and high humidity during the day and the drastic fall in temperature at night. There is something else that sets apart deserts, which is its flora. The …

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