2016 Feb 12, 06:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 2016 Feb 12, 06:21 PM by Matias.
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(2016 Feb 12, 05:17 PM)dan Wrote: According to the Wikipedia entry for Arica it is considered "the driest inhabited place on Earth, at least as measured by rainfall":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate
I think it's true, the city gets its water and food for this two narrow green valleys in the middle of the desert (called "pampa"):
In the bottom of each valley there is a river that runs dry almost 10 month a year, but there is an aquifer that runs underground from the Andes.