Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km². This ...

Instead, the desert region is the find itself ... the site (cacao only grows in the tropical climates of Meso- and South America). Sadly, climactic changes caused Chaco Canyon to decline.

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet ... a "bucket-list favourite" among South American travellers, said The Telegraph.

There are 45 species of Iguanidae living in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central and South America. These include the well-known marine iguanas of the ...