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Flowers bloom in the Atacama desert – in pictures

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The Atacama desert is experiencing a rare springtime bloom of flowers after El Niño brought the heaviest rainfall in two decades earlier this year. The desert is usually one of the driest places on Earth. Flowers normally bloom every five to seven years but this year’s showing has been one of the most spectacular

Flowers in the Huasco region of the Atacama desert, 400 miles north of Santiago, Chile.
Photograph: Carlos Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
A mallow field in full bloom.
Photograph: Mario Ruiz/EPA
Close-up of mallow flowers.
Photograph: Mario Ruiz/EPA
The flowering desert has brought an influx of insects, birds and lizards.
Photograph: Carlos Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
Flowers in the Huasco region.
Photograph: Carlos Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
This blossoming has been called the most spectacular of the last 18 years.
Photograph: Carlos Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
A car drives through a mallow field.
Photograph: Mario Ruiz/EPA
Visitors enjoy the flowers.
Photograph: Mario Ruiz/EPA
The El Niño rainfall caused flooding and mudslides as well as the flowers.
Photograph: Carlos Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
How the arid landscape usually looks.
Photograph: Alamy
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