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happyslug

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5. Depends on how you define the Atacama,

Reply to Warpy (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 08:37 PM

Apr 2013

Last edited Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:23 PM - Edit history (1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert

If you look at the above Map, Peru only has the Northern Part of the area within the WIDER definition of the Atacama. If you use the narrower definition (In yellow in the above Map), i.e restrict the definition to the area with the least water, NO.

The Atacama is thought to be the OLDEST desert in the world, about 20 million years old:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4437153.stm

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