Many of the mountains that run through it are completely free of glaciers even at altitudes above 20,000 feet due to this area's extreme dryness.
Many of the mountains that run through it are completely free of glaciers even at altitudes above 20,000 feet due to this area's extreme dryness. On average it receives less than a millimeter of rain per year, and between the years 1571 and 1971, it received no measurable rainfall at all, the longest drought in recorded history. For ten points, name this desert, arguably the driest desert in the world but certainly not the hottest, located along the coast of Chile.
Many of the mountains that run through it are completely free of glaciers even at altitudes above 20,000 feet due to this area's extreme dryness.
{Atacama} Desert