Chile announces new 'flowering desert' national park
STORY: This is Chile's new Desert Blooming National Park
Location: Atacama Desert, Chile
(Gabriel Boric, President of Chile)
"For us, creating the Desert Blooming National Park is a way to move forward on this path of sustainability. There are more than 200 species of flowers, and exquisite fauna must also be protected. We see that the Atacama region has tremendous tourism potential."
This will be Chile's 44th national park
Atacama Desert is the driest and sunniest desert in the world
The blooming of flowers here
is a natural phenomenon
that only occurs every three to five years