Desert bloom

Flowers bloom on the desert in the Llanos de Challe National Park at the doors of the Atacama desert about 600km north of Santiago, Chile. An exceptional year with a 50mm rainfall helps the more than 200 species of autochthonous flowers, which don't grow elsewhere, 14 of them in risk of extinction, to spread out a colorful blanket over the world's driest desert. Photo courtesy: AFP

Flowers bloom on the desert in the Llanos de Challe National Park at the doors of the Atacama desert about 600km north of Santiago, Chile. An exceptional year with a 50mm rainfall helps the more than 200 species of autochthonous flowers, which don't grow elsewhere, 14 of them in risk of extinction, to spread out a colorful blanket over the world's driest desert. Photo courtesy: AFP


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