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The Namib Desert is located on the southwestern coast of Africa and is classified as a cool coastal desert. The Atacama Desert is another cool coastal desert located on the coast of Chile and Peru.

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Unlike lands near warm oceans currents lands near cold oceans currents may cool land dry the cold Peru current passes near the earths driest desert What is its name?

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