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The Desert Speaks
The Driest Desert in the World
Season 14
Episode 1401
The Pan-American Highway stretches from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and includes a jaunt through the arid coastal desert of Peru. Learn how the cold Humboldt Current attracts the wildlife to the islands and contributes to the dry desert. Marvel at a 600-foot geoglyph of a San Pedro cactus carved into a hillside. and visit one of the richest collections of petroglyphs in the world.
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.
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We trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert into the Andes.
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Venture across the spectacular and colorful Argentine Patagonia.
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We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
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Tracing the San Andreas Fault.
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Exploring the isolated ecosystem of Catalina Island.
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Travel along the coastline of Espiritu Santo Island with host David Yetman.
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The famed Sea of Cortez boasts the greatest marine diversity in the world.
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Continue the journey through the gorgeously diverse Patagonia landscape.
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Travel with host David Yetman through the Patagonia landscape.
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Trace the Rio San Miguel through Sonora, Mexico.
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Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.