Chile's Atacama Desert Blossoms with Life After El Nino Rains
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Exceptional rains caused by El Niño in northern Chile have transformed the Atacama Desert into a vast carpet of flowers, which could be one of the most important episodes of "flowering desert" ever observed.
Under the soil of this desert, one of the most arid of the globe, are hidden the seeds and bulbs of about 200 species, which wait for precipitation to germinate. Among these species, white suspiros and guanaco patas, which tint with violet of vast expanses. Tourists stop their vehicles at the edge of the road to take pictures of this transformed landscape, which may include a rainbow mixed with the intense red of sunset. The flowering desert, wh…
El Niño, a natural variation of the climate that occurs every two to seven years, raises surface temperatures in the center and east of the equatorial Pacific, which generates global changes in winds and rains, as well as weather conditions
Flowers of all colours cover the desert of Atacama, Chile, after the heavy rainfall caused by the climate phenomenon El Niño.
Chile's Atacama Desert blossoms with life after El Nino rains
The phenomenon could cover about 15,000 hectares. Millions of seeds and bulbs remain under the sand until water activates their growth.
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