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The ordinarily barren , almost Martian landscape painting of the Atacama Desert recently erupted in flush , paint the hillsides , puritanical , fuschia , orange and yellow-bellied . The almost magical transformation pass thanks to with child rainwater earlier in the year , which watered flower seeds that had lie dormant for years . One Twitter user , Tomás Cuadra Ordenes , captured exposure of the gorgeous blooms . [ Read the full story on the Atacama Desert blooms ]
Fields of pinkish
Earlier in the year , the Atacama Desert received heavy rainfall , with the town of Antofagasta , Chile receiving seven years ' Charles Frederick Worth of rain in a 12 - hour pair . Those laborious rains turned the scorched desert into river of mud . But the same rain watered come that had been inter in the ground for years , waiting for their chance to bloom . Here , photos of the blooms painting the landscape . ( Photo credit : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Rare species
About 200 plant specie popped up thanks to the rain . Some , like the Garra de León , are retrieve nowhere else in the world . ( exposure credit : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Blue and blanched
Here , gorgeous blue and snowy flush dot the landscape painting of the Atacama Desert . These flowers pop up overnight . ( Photo credit : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Desert bloom
The Atacama Desert is one of the driest plaza on Earth , and such blush typically only bump every five to 10 years , but this bloom is one of the most impressive in decades , experts say . Getting to go through the flower , like the caravan conductor traveling across this orbit of fuschia , is a once in a lifetime experience . ( picture credit : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Lifetime trip
This lading train has quite the opinion as it travels through eternal fields of Battle of Magenta flowers . ( Photo reference : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Standing scout
This elephantine white cockatoo stands see over his playing area of pink lilies . ( Photo acknowledgment : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Fleeting smasher
Though bloom seem to cover every surface now , they will soon fade aside and the landscape painting will once again be metamorphose to its drab pallet of rust browns and greys . By the final stage of November , all trace of the colorful blooms will be gone . ( picture credit entry : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
Desert pallette
The desert sunset raise the view of the flowers , painting the sky and mountains behind in a palette of yellow-bellied and red . ( ( picture credit : Tomás Cuadra Ordenes )
