South America interesting facts -Social studies

The most interesting thing i learned about South  
America is that the Atacama Desert (located in Chili) has a record breaking drought. Something else i found interesting is that the people of the Atacama Desert uses 20 times less water than the United States. Also there are mummies in the Atacama. Something interesting about the Pampas Desert  is that there is about- 20 to 50 inches a year. An interesting fact about the Amazon is that half the worlds species live in the Amazon. One last interesting fact about the Atacama is there are penguins there, and this interests me because it is such a dry arid place that and penguins usually live in Sub-arctic climates.

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