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© South American Pictures/ Danny Aeberherd

Chile: the Lauca National Park in the far north east is a high Andean semi desert with many plants and animals adapted to the environment. Here at an altitude of 4000m water from the melting snow of volcanoes form soft boggy places known locally as bofedales. A vicuña a wild relative of the llama keeps to the cover of resinous tola bushes. The volcano Parinacota rises to 6342m on the border with Bolivia.