Desierto Florido, Atacama is conditional and no current occurrence has been verified.
Timing status: Conditional timing, not yet verified.
Desert bloom (watch-only) · Conditional timing, not yet verified
Roughly every 3-10 years
The world's driest desert, covered in flowers. Some years.
When enough winter rain falls on the southern Atacama, two hundred dormant species germinate at once and the driest desert on Earth turns purple and white for a few weeks. It happens perhaps twice a decade, and nobody knows until August. We watch the rains; you get the email.
frequency of a bloom year: Every 3-10 years
Where it is visible: Copiapó to Vallenar corridor, Atacama, Chile
This page's capture unit is the whole page: "We'll tell you if this is a bloom year." Off-road driving over seed banks is prohibited in the national park.
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