Deserts of South America

8 deserts.

The largest desert in South America. A cold winter desert with strong winds. Patagonia was...

The driest non-polar desert. Some areas have had no recorded rainfall in over 500 years. N...

Located between the Andes and the Pacific. The Humboldt Current creates the aridity. Phosp...

East of the Andes in Argentina. Receives only 50-200 mm of rain. The Andes rain shadow cre...

The Chinchorro mummies here are the oldest artificially mummified remains, predating Egypt...

The worlds largest salt flat. Contains 10 billion tons of salt and 50-70% of the worlds li...

White sand dunes stretching inland from the Atlantic coast of northeastern Brazil. Not a t...

The second largest arid zone in Colombia after La Guajira, technically a tropical dry fore...