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Why is the western coast of South America desert while the inland part of the same continent at the same latitude is humid?
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∙ 14y ago
The flow of wind in that area of South America is from east to west. All the moisture coming from the Atlantic Ocean is blocked by the Andes mountains from reaching west coast. The rain falls in the Amazon basin and nothing in the Atacama Desert.
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