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The Desert Speaks
Desert Descent: Chile’s Atacama
Season 18
Episode 10
Host David Yetman, historian Bill Beezley and Archeologist María José Figuerero travel around the Puna, the high-elevation plains of Chile’s Atacama Desert, a harsh environment that is home to traditional villages as well as unusual plants and animals
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