The Atacama Desert stretches around 60 miles (97km) along Chile’s Pacific Coast and is one of the driest places on Earth – the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts.

It's where Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal decided to build his towering sculpture Mano de Desierto, or Hand of the Desert, in the early 1980s.

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