Does anything live in the driest place on earth? Evidently there is a town there! Here's a great resource on the Atacama desert in Chile that explains the reasons for this condition.

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information