Flora of Altiplano - cactuses, specialists in the north of Chile

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <h1>Flora of Chile in the Altiplano</h1> By Altiplano mean the whole north of Chile. Toward the north, the average anual rain fall gets ever lower. In La Serena, for instance, it falls about 130 mm of rain annually; in Arica in contrast, it falls just 1 mm per year. Friends of cactuses, get their money's worth mainly in the dry north of Chile with its more than 160 different species. Every few years the El Niño stream causes rain to fall in the middle of the desert. In those years, arround september, the desert starts to bloom in bright colours. A spectacle that should not be neglected. In the most dry desert - the famous Atacama desert - even dry climate specialists, like catuses, can hardly gain ground in these extreme climate.<br> <a href="altiplano-flora-main-ing.htm">Flora of Altiplano - cactuses, specialists in the north of Chile</a> </body>