The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope antennas in the Atacama desert in Chile are seen covered in snow. The atacama is considered to be the driest desert on earth. (AFP/Getty Images)
A rare snowfall in Chile’s Atacama desert has delighted visitors to one of the world’s driest areas.
Residents of San Pedro de Atacama say the weekend snow was the heaviest in three decades for the desert city, which is 750 miles north of the capital, Santiago.
The desert is described as the driest hot desert in the world.
It is made up mostly of salt lakes, sand and felsic lava.
Its average rainfall is less than one inch.
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