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A Cactus in Court

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In the early morning, the light in the Atacama Desert is still a muted gray. In places the ground is damp, moistened by fog that flows in gentle waves over rocks and scree slopes at daybreak. In northern Chile this weather phenomenon is known as the camanchaca, bringing life where it sometimes doesn’t rain for decades.
Thanks to this climate, some of the world’s rarest cacti grow along the steep coastal hills around the town of Paposo: the Copiapoa. These plants draw nearly all their water from

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