Trivia: South America’s Atacama Desert holds what distinction?
Hottest average temperature
Largest desert
Most biodiverse desert
Driest non-polar desert
The correct answer is Driest non-polar desert
So why is this answer correct? : Wedged between the Cordillera de la Costa mountain range and the Andes, Chile’s 600-mile-long Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert in the world. (Deserts in parts of Antarctica are even drier.) The Atacama Desert receives less than one millimeter of rainfall each year on average, and there are parts of the desert that have never recorded rainfall.