When the Rain Cascades on the Earth Driest Desert, Find Out What Happens
Located along the Chile- Peru border, The Atacama Desert is considered as the driest non-polar desert on Earth, stretched around 1000 km. The land receives up to 15 mm of rainfall a year, which clearly says that Atacama didn’t receive much rainfall at all.But even this barren land can turn up with life. The landscape burst into colour when it experiences heavy rainfall during the southern Hemispher’s spring (October, November). The sleeping flower buds beneath the dead surface, burst into life, covering the land with a purple mist.
Once speaking to the EFE News Agency, Daniel Diaz, the National Tourism Service Director in Atacama said,"The intensity of blooms this year has no precedent. And the fact that it has happened twice in a same year has never been recorded in the country’s history. We are surprised."
Though Diaz gives credit to the climate change for this extraordinary phenomenon. Locals have been very thankful for the wider tourism this event has created for the region. This isn’t the only place in the world that offers the desert bloom, deserts in Utah also experiences this similar phenomenon.
