Fog desert
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File:Fog desert Lima and Trujillo, Peru.jpg
The desert between Lima and Trujillo, Peru. The Andes Mountains, obscured by fog, can be seen in the background.
A fog desert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life.[1]
Examples of fog deserts include the Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru, the Baja California Desert of Mexico, the Namib Desert in Namibia,[1] the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert,[2] and Biosphere 2, an artificial closed ecosphere in Arizona.
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