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The Sahara (the world's largest and hottest desert, with temperatures reaching 57.6Â°C (136Â°F) and the Atacama (the world's driest desert) on the coast of Chile and the Kalahari in Africa were formed in this way.The Gobi Desert is a cold winter desert and daytime temperatures can drop to -30Â°C (22Â°F).he Sahara (the world's largest and hottest desert, with temperatures reaching 57.6Â°C (136Â°F) and the Atacama (the world's driest desert) on the coast of Chile and the Kalahari in Africa were formed in this way.
The Atacama Desert is a plateau in South America, covering a 1000-km strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest nonpolar desert in the world. According to estimates, the Atacama Desert occupies 105,000 km2, or 128,000 km2 if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes, sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes. Geographically, the aridity of the Atacama is explained by it being situ